Bhagavad Gita

How is the worship of devatas inclusive within worship of Krishna?

Why does Krishna say the devatas are different from him in chp 7 and same with him in chp 10?

Does karshati in Gita 15.07 refer to attraction or struggle?

Why does the Gita 15.1 compare the Vedas to leaves?

How do we develop the qualities the Gita recommends?

How can I overcome sleepiness when studying the Gita?

Parenting Principles from Bhagavad-gita

Gita 08.26 – Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes

Gita 08.25 – Yogi’s spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world’s gravity pull

Gita 08.24 – Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul’s liberation

Gita 08.23 – The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework

Death and the search for meaning

Gita 08.22 – Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything

Does the Gita contain verses against meat-eating?

What does the Gita say about attachment, detachment and rupture in relationships?

How exactly is work worship – is bad work also worship?

Gita 08.21 – Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world

Gita 08.20 – The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial

Gita 08.19 – Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual

Gita 08.18 – Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed

Gita 08.17 – The immortal is not eternal

Gita 08.16 – The world is like a jail or hospital – returning to it is undesirable

Gita 08.15 – Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment

Gita 08.13 – External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation

Gita 08.12 – In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental

Gita 08.11 – Liberation in yoga requires renunciation

Gita 08.10 – Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive

Gita 08.09 – Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information

Gita 08.08 – Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna

Gita 08.14 – What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective

Gita 08.07 – Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world

Gita 08.06 – Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position

Gita 08.05 – Our choice at the junction determines our destination

Gita 08.04 – Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna

Gita 08.03 – Spirituality is our nature

Gita 08.02 – Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground

Gita 08.01 – Terms have specific and generic meanings

Gita 07.30 – Teacher’s incomprehensible statements test student’s interest and attentiveness

Temptations may come, we don’t have to welcome

Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it

Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady

Gita 07.27 – Go beyond duality by spirituality

Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence

Essence of Gita 5 – Choose God over the world

Essence of Gita 4 – God helps those who let him help them

Essence of Gita 3 – Devotion connects us vertically and horizontally

Essence of Gita 2 – Direct love towards the ultimate object

Essence of Gita 1 – Love is eternal

Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron

How can knowledge alone free us from karmic bondage, as Gita 4.14 says?

Is a person in Krishna consciousness transcendental to varnashrama?

When Arjuna had enough mind control to perform great austerities, why does he say that he can’t control the mind?

How has surrender in Gita 2.7 changed Arjuna’s consciousness when he expresses the same sentiment in 1.35 and 2.8?

When Krishna calls as divine the vision for seeing the Universal Form, why does Vishvanatha Chakravarti call it a downgrade of vision?

When Arjuna was already able to see Krishna’s intimate form why did Krishna have to give him divine vision to see the Universal Form?

How was Sanjay able to see the Universal Form without being given special eyes by Krishna?

Gita 07.24 – To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context

Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation

Gita 07.22 – Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him

Gita 07.21 – Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor

Gita 07.20 – Don’t let desire steal your knowledge

Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga

Gita 07.18 – Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable

Gita 06.47 – The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna

Gita 06.45 – Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection

Gita 07.17 – Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna

Gita 06.46 – Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment – gross or subtle

Gita 06.44 – Past-life’s spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence

Gita 07.16 – Approaching Krishna for any reason is auspicious

Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse

Gita 07.15 – Scriptural categorization of non-devotees is living, not frozen

Gita 06.42 – Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate

Should the Bhagavad-gita be made India’s national book?

Gita 07.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position brings intellectual force to our call of devotion

Gita 07.13 – The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence

Gita 06.40 – Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win

Gita 06.41 – The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually

Gita 06.38 – The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness

Gita 06.39 – Doubts are natural due to our limitedness – seek the unlimited

Gita 07.12 – The Gita’s vision of God is not pantheistic but panentheistic

Gita 06.37 – Considering future problems is a sign of intelligence

Gita 07.11 – Kama manifests the divine when harmonized with dharma

Gita 06.36 – Mind control is essential – and possible by proper process

Gita 07.10 – All seeds are exhaustible, but Krishna is the inexhaustible seed

Gita 07.09 – Krishna underlies diverse manifestations as earth, fire, life and ascetic

Gita 06.35 – The supreme teacher offers guidance – and confidence

Gita 06.34 – The mind is dangerous like an unstoppable storm

Gita 07.08 – Krishna is the essence that makes all taste accessible through water

Gita 07.07 – Krishna is the substance underlying all appearance

Gita 06.33 – Seeing equally is tough, but seeing devotionally is easier

Gita 06.32 – The topmost yogi sees everyone with benevolence, not indifference

Gita 07.06 – Nothing exists outside the purview of Krishna’s energies

Gita 07.05 – The Absolute Truth is immutable, but its energies are mutable

Gita 06.31 – See oneness in Krishna’s various manifestations – not Krishna and the soul

Gita 07.04 – Sankhya when seen devotionally reveals Krishna’s glory

Gita 06.30 – The perception of Krishna everywhere takes one beyond the reach of illusion

Gita 07.03 – The rarity of knowing Krishna reveals the mercy we have the opportunity to relish

Gita 06.29 – By seeing sameness in the material, yogi penetrates to the supreme spiritual substance

Gita 07.02 – Understand the appearance and the substance of everything

Gita 06.28 – To get the best happiness, connect with God, not sense objects