Gita Daily(1)

01.29 – Might our worst fear point to our best hope?

13.08 – How an accountability vacuum can suck our devotion

18.37 – Be cruel to be kind

18.58 – The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna

17.16 – How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?

02.58 – Are we trying to move up while looking down?

02.62-63 – Are we sending our intelligence on a vacation?

13.28 – We see not by staring but by hearing

04.36 – The power that supersedes nature, nurture and culture

03.41 – The mental avatar of AIDS

02.11 – Are we using religion as a cloak instead of as an armor?

13.09 – When it requires courage to be afraid

16.11 – Is our culture preventing us from growing up?

09.10 – The incomprehensible comprehensibility and the comprehensible incomprehensibility of the universe

12.08-12 – Navigating our way between the ideal and the real

05.21 – We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth

18.33 – Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way

03.41 – Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?

05.25 – Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?

07.14 – We are our own devils

03.30 – Better to be exhausted than rusted

13.08 – How humility boosts our self-esteem…

14.24 – We are just extras in others’ plots

05.20 – When life makes us emotionally seasick…

02.56 – When neither the summits nor the valleys matter…

15.10 – Is our sight causing us to lose sight?

06.05 – When a salesperson knocks at the inner door…

16.16 – Why life seems so complex…

18.45 – Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness

06.17 – Plans may not work, but planning works

15.07 – Are we trying to live someone else’s life?

03.36 – Spiritual culture is the bridge from hypocrisy and perversity to purity

17.02 – On the value of judgments and the judgment of values

02.52 – Untrue ways of being true to oneself

10.08 – Krishna is not just God; he is my God

15.07 – Let us long to belong

09.33 – The world is in a mess – as usual

14.06 – Why is morning the best time for spiritual activities?

14.26 – The unemotional emotionality of the Gita

12.19 – Do we have our own inner sanctuary?

10.05 – Why are we half-trusting Krishna?

09.27 – Let Krishna permeate, pervade and possess our heart

07.06 – From the reality of nature to the nature of reality

06.05 – Are we falling for the mind’s “no time” trick?

04.17 – Ask not “Why this?” but “How now?”

02.19 – Are we giving death more than its due quota?

06.16 – Beyond Captivity to Futility and Utility

15.18 – Enlightenment that is universal, beneficial and non-imitable

18.37 – Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar

06.08 – Happiness comes not by the stocking of information but the flowing of service

07.23 – Be not fanatical but fanatically focused

04.36 – Are we blaming the sinking of the boat on gravity?

15.07 – Why pursue pleasure in a prison of protoplasm?

07.04 – Ahankara = aham + car

06.21 – When attention seems like detention…

03.41 – Are we pinching a sleeping tiger?

02.41 – A business that is more serious than business

13.09 – Understanding comes by going beyond visible specifics to invisible universals

18.58 – Hunted, haunted – transcended

10.8 – Why think about Krishna?

07.16 – Bringing and keeping Krishna on our curiosity radar

15.5 – Divorcing our longest and worst life-partner

02.44 – Are my attachments holding me or am I holding my attachments?

02.16 – Are we eternalizing the present?

02.58 – Training ourselves to avoid mental potholes

02.68 – Are we using technology or are we being used by technology?

10.9 – What is Krishna’s place in our secret life?

10.10 – Transform disappointment into his-appointment

02.38 – The world is a station, not a destination

14.23 – Navigating the troughs of our consciousness

16.09 – Materialism is wrong and wrongheaded

07.16 – Digging the grave of materialism – functional and fanatical

09.26 – Devotion is Krishna’s appetizer

10.14 – When the shadow of scripture claims to be its light…

06.20 – Is “there are no absolute truths” an absolute truth?

13.05 – A call to visionary obedience

13.35 – What is the medium through which we experience the world?

05.24 – Materialism centers on gaining; spirituality centers on regaining

13.08 – Accept but don’t expect respect

09.02 – Bhakti is not just cultural or historical but also universal and eternal

08.19 – Material existence: Linear progress or cyclic process?

05.21 – Does our pleasure have to cost others misery?

01.10 – What went wrong with the great materialist dream?

08.15 – Is paradise something we will create or something we were created into?

09.14 – See spiritual advancement in overall dedication not ritual specialization

12.08-10 – Locating ourselves on the Gita’s ladder of love

03.39 – Sex is extraordinarily ordinary

04.24 – Is the material life of devotees spiritual?

08.07- Striking a deal between the extraordinary and the ordinary

16.18 – Hell is not meant to cause us suffering but to save us from suffering

07.03 – Our spirituality is a specialty, not an abnormality

10.18 – The goal of spiritual knowledge is not just discovery but also recovery

11.32 – A Sage Look at Time Management

09.13 – How the small soul becomes great…

16.23 – The obnoxious is obnoxious because it is noxious

02.61 – Blunt the desire for enjoyment with engagement

18.63 – Don’t give up the intelligence; go beyond the intelligence

11.32 – The present is all that we have – and all that we will ever have

2.63 – The mad mind’s dietary priority: Never eat anything first except the head

12.07 – What are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves?