Gita Daily(1)

Gita 07.19 – Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter

07.08 – Slave not to get worldly recognition; strive to give Krishna recognition

06.25 – Those who take a strong stand internally stand strong externally

16.10 – When one makes lust a god, lust makes one a devil

16.01 – Charity is not just an activity but also a mentality

14.19 – Let the thoughts that go away from Krishna take our thoughts towards Krishna

06.06 – The mind makes us a stranger to ourselves

09.22 – When worry accelerates the imagination, let faith become the brake

06.28 – The purpose of discipline is not to torture ourselves, but to transcend ourselves

16.12 – Our bonds are not prisoner’s shackles, but puppeteer’s strings

14.05 – We are compelled to do as we choose to desire

06.18 – Be not self-conscious; be conscious of the self

10.10 – Might my own thing not be my own thing?

04.23 – What raises motion to action is motivation

16.15 – Those who crave to look big are small

12.11 – Krishna accommodates even those who can’t accommodate him

02.45 – Possessor, possess thyself!

05.05 – See beyond divergent ideas to convergent ideals

05.22 – The body is a visa to pleasure, not a passport

03.20 – Devotion encompasses both reconnection of the world and its renunciation

03.32 – Confusion in attribution obscures illumination – end confusion with devotion

18.57 – Seek shelter to wear the armor; use the armor to feel the shelter

18.63 – Life is not a fixed match, but Krishna can help us fix it

What the Gita is meant to show

18.71 – The words will change us – provided we don’t change the words

09.30 – We may fall down, but we don’t have to fall away

07.29 – Don’t reduce the spiritual to the practical; let the spiritual expand the practical

08.09 – Remembrance of Krishna’s immanence brings resilience on our march to transcendence

13.23 – Krishna knows the ultimate inside story – and he keeps it inside

08.14 – Seek not moments of devotion; seek momentum in devotion

05.21- What comes fast doesn’t last; what does last doesn’t come fast

08.15 – The world is a hospital; be hospitable to the doctor

10.11 – Ignite the light that makes the inner world bright and right

06.22 – Do not ensure heartbreaks; insure against heartbreaks

09.21 – Seek not higher material happiness; seek higher than material happiness

18.46 – Complement spirit with spirituality for complete success

10.08 – Krishna speaks his glories not to prove his position but to improve our disposition

02.07 – Those who overestimate their intelligence underutilize their potential

07.03 – Focus on how close you are, not how far you are

12.09 – Strive more for the gift of presence than the presence of gifts

06.14 – Krishna is not just the object of meditation but also its objective

09.14 – The more we expect meditation to be a break from hard work, the more meditation becomes hard work

18.66 – Whatever karma may get us to, Krishna will get us through

02.24 – Enlightenment raises us from the fear of death to the death of fear

07.01 – The propellant of spirituality is not detachment but attachment

18.58 – Empower your thoughts to break free from their tired and tiring avenues

06.32 – Cultivate compassion for the complete being of all living beings

05.26 – The greatest danger is the danger of forgetting the danger

05.11 – Purity transforms the roads to misery into the roads to ecstasy

14.27 – To think outside the box, think about Krishna

01.45 – Let the example of power come after, never before, the power of example

15.10 – Strive not to look good in the eyes of the world; strive to get good eyes to look at the world

03.36 – The greatest threat to individual freedom is the individual

02.40 – Things may belong, but for how long?

04.09 – The goal of spiritual life is to make spiritual life the goal

16.04 – Obsession with fame deprives us of prema

01.44 – Choose the self-definition that is eternal and factual, not fickle and fallible

15.09 – When we mistake the mind’s petulance to be bhakti’s impotence, we sentence ourselves to perpetual dissonance

04.14 – Seek to know Krishna not theoretically but transformationally

02.45 – Be flexible, but not fickle

06.18 – Illusion means that the content of our experience blinds us to its context

11.26 – Confront reality before reality confronts us

10.41 – Krishna is better than the best that the world can offer

18.61 – Krishna is not doing things to us; he is doing things for us

10.10 – To hear Krishna accurately, first hear about Krishna attentively

16.16 – When desires crowd the mind, dilemmas cloud the intelligence

02.58 – To minimize weariness, maximize wariness

01.01 Will we have to lose everything before we lose our blindness?

06.26 – Let’s not renew what we need to remove

09.28 – Liberation is not just about what we are released from but also about what we are released to

02.14 – Tolerance fosters not impotence but perseverance

01.08 – Attachment makes the absent present

03.39 – When a wildfire appears to be the cure for a burn, a wildfire is burning our head

06.08 – Let research reinforce, not replace, search

05.23 – As long as we mistake the irresistible to be essential, we deprive ourselves of the essential

07.09 – Rise from “willpower is power” to “willpower is his power”

09.14 – Let determination enthrone, not dethrone, devotion

01.36 – Don’t treat Krishna as a showpiece; let him show how to put the pieces of life together

02.15 – If we let all that happens matter, then we don’t let all that matters happen

09.12 – Seeing the infinite through finite filters makes finite illusions infinite

06.45 – Bhakti is not a part of life; life is a part of bhakti

18.22 – Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world

07.13 – Krishna is concealed, but not contained, by the modes

15.03 – As long as we desire to bring matter under our captivity, we remain in its captivity

05.20 – The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle

04.04 – When we give Krishna the benefit of doubt, he gives us the benefit of freedom from doubt

18.42 – If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it

15.19 – Life’s driving force is existence’s crowning reality

10.14 – Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting

08.08 – To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness

09.04-05 – The Gita is not self-contradictory, but self-revelatory

16.01 – Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear

18.38 – Discover the right way to enjoy our right to enjoyment

08.15 – We can’t change the nature of nature, but we can change the nature of desire

15.15 – Krishna’s inner presence is to coach us, not catch us

09.13 – Krishna is not only the anchor to which we connect, but also the anchor by which we connect

11.32 – Time makes the unpalatable unavoidable; Krishna makes the unavoidable palatable

02.68 – Beware of the heart attack that makes us morally unconscious

07.18 – Don’t just bring Krishna into your life; let Krishna bring you into his life

14.16 – Our happiness depends far more on the thoughts within than on the things without