Gita Daily(1)

11.33 – We need mountains to conquer ourselves – and bhakti offers us the best mountains

05.23 – Pass the test, get the taste

10.10 – Be intelligent enough to know what to do when you don’t know what to do

12.09 – Anticipate spontaneous devotion, but cultivate conscientious devotion

11.08 – Bhakti renders the metaphysical physical and the physical metaphysical

04.02 – The divorce of the raja from the rishi perverts the ruler into an exploiter

09.32 – Spiritual growth depends on disposition, not position

18.46 – Preoccupation with occupation is not devotion

03.30 – Be a warrior, not a worrier

05.29 – Krishna is the best enjoyer – and the best source of enjoyment

06.25 – Disbelieve the mind’s disastrous misdiagnosis

16.22 – Anger makes our response to a problem a bigger problem than the problem itself

18.28 – Fretting is like overcooking a rotten vegetable in our head

18.42 – Those who respect the command of God command the respect of the world

10.09 – When the world has got so much from us, why should Krishna get less?

08.08 – Leave no space to space out

11.33 – After we win the battle, our real battle begins

03.37 – Lust is worse than our worst enemy

03.06 – Spiritual advancement comes not just by change of activity but by change of mentality

11.54 – Krishna is beyond the range of the head, but not beyond the reach of the heart

09.33 – Our heart may not have a place for Krishna, but Krishna has a place for our heart

18.26 – Life in goodness is not life in slow motion

14.22 – Look at the mind before you look with the mind

08.07 – Feed the heart a healthy diet, not a deadly diet

05.29 – Krishna may be beyond our reach, but we are not beyond his reach

03.30 – Fight for all that you have with all that you have

13.29 – We suffer not because we are last but because we are lost

16.24 – End the tradition of abuse with the tradition of love

18.58 – Life determines our problems; we determine their size

05.20 – No problem is so dreadful and no pleasure is so wonderful that it is worth losing our inner connection with Krishna

02.63 – Let the road from the eyes to the heart not bypass or bulldoze the head

14.12 – Let where we crave to be not drag us away from where we need to be

16.13-14 – Beware of the universal solvent that dissolves everything including us

14.06 – Use the intelligence in Krishna’s service, not Krishna in the intelligence’s service

16.21 – Greed makes the wealthy needy

06.05 – The mind not only befools but also betrays us

07.19 – Have the intelligence to doubt the supremacy of the intelligence

05.21 – Disdain the pain that is a pain to miss

04.11 – From our place, at our pace, Krishna offers his embrace

12.07 – Rise from defiance through reliance to transcendence

04.04 – Be curious not superstitious, cautious not suspicious

07.03 – Accepting that we are ordinary is extraordinary

06.22 We may be broke but we don’t have to be broken

05.22 – Are we mistaking the cause of torture to be the source of shelter?

04.40 – See skepticism with skepticism

06.06 – Throw light on the daylight robbery that doesn’t come to light

08.16 – Life takes off when we understand how soon life takes us off

16.12 – A liberty that ends in slavery

08.15 – Beyond the love that hides to the love that guides

18.61 – The first purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life

05.16 – The inner light reveals not just the worst within but also the best within

02.71 – Fight the inner war that counters the outer war

09.30 – Might we be sentencing to the jail those who need the hospital?

13.09 – The futility of utility; the utility of futility

12.13 – Let’s love Krishna too much to be fanatical

10.14 – Is spiritual shopping taking the place of spiritual seeking?

03.37 – Red carpet or red light?

16.09 – An emptiness that is worse than loneliness

11.33 – We are never too small to do a big service and never too big to do a small service

02.07 – Are we strong enough to admit that we are not strong enough?

07.26 – Might we be blocking the progress of a work in progress?

16.09 – Why sentence ourselves to meaninglessness, purposelessness and joylessness?

15.10 – How can we pursue that which we don’t perceive?

18.58 – Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place

10.10 – Love is the ultimate knowledge – and is the way to the ultimate knowledge

18.73 – Send resentment to retirement

03.07 – Is nothing the place where something is hiding?

02.08 – Losing our way to find our way

06.32 – Let’s learn to laugh with others, not laugh at others

17.16 – Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice

04.17 – Should we be happy when we are happy?

17.19 – True austerity is supplicative not manipulative

14.12 – Are we mistaking an inner lacking for an outer lacking?

13.23 – Are we conscious that Krishna is conscious of us?

05.22 – The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion

15.09 – Might a 20/20 vision lead to blindness?

04.11 – Might we be protecting our heart from Krishna instead of for Krishna?

06.24 – Let’s guard our consciousness the way we guard our homes

18.65 – Realization comes by riveting to the relationship, not the ritual

16.02 – When we best serve Krishna by keeping out of his business

03.26 – Might we be burning the very bridge that we want others to cross?

05.22 – Are we mistaking the red signal to be the green signal?

08.07 – “Now and then” or “from now on”?

16.12 – A prison of promises and pretenses

02.64 – Are we mistaking the lifeline to be a handcuff?

16.17 – Is our religion a sanctuary for the soul or a gymnasium for the ego?

05.21 – Are our desires locking us into a world of frustration or releasing us into the world of fulfillment?

04.38 – Seek pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, not meaning in the pursuit of pleasure

09.30 – What defines us as devotees is not how we fall, but how we rise

15.07 – When fulfilling desires doesn’t translate into fulfillment

10.10 – Invest emotion to relish transformation

02.14 – Imprisoned by circumstances, liberated by consciousness

05.11 – The balance between “matter alone matters” and “matter doesn’t matter”

02.13 – Do we recognize that we haven’t recognized ourselves?

15.07 – Completeness comes not by material amelioration or mechanical reconnection, but by emotional redirection

12.13 – Love that is too big to allow room for hatred in the heart

12.07 – Are we holding on to a straw instead of a lifeline?

02.30 – Break the wall that blocks the path from the past to the future

10.41 – Krishna is Krishna’s best blessing

06.22 – Stability and maturity that takes us beyond adversity