Bhagavad Gita

Gita 02.66 – Without inner connection, we end with agitation and frustration

Gita 02.65 – Purification makes external intelligence internal

Did Arjuna know Krishna’s supreme position in the Gita’s first chapter?

Gita 02.64 – Material regulation is the launching pad for spiritual liberation

Could Krishna not convince Arjuna with philosophy alone and so he displayed the Universal Form?

Gita 02.63 – Irritation, delusion, oblivion, stupefaction, destruction – Last 5 of 8 stages to falldown

Gita 02.62 – Whatever catches our attention catches us

Do sadhaka-devotees also become free all worldly obligations?

How does the Vedic rule of “no reactions in killing aggressors” apply today?

Gita 02.61 – Control, concentration, conquest – three stages in dealing with the senses

Gita 02.60 – Endeavoring and discerning are not enough for sense control

Gita 02.59 – Complement renunciation of the material with contemplation on the spiritual

Gita 02.58 – Withdraw consciousness inwards as a basic defense mechanism

Gita 02.57 – Stay unaffected by the material by being focussed on the spiritual

Gita 02.56 – Emotional non-entanglement with the material characterizes the seer

Gita 02.55 – Rejection of mental desires and satisfaction in the self define the self-realized

Gita 02.54 – Non-literal meaning illumines when literal meaning stumps

Gita 02.53 – Persistent absorption comes by consistent rejection of distraction

Gita 02.52 – Shastra without guru can be a deluding forest for the intelligence

How can we best present the Gita to intellectuals who feel Prabhupada’s Gita is too devotional?

Why does Prabhupada say that Haridasa Thakura is superior to Lord Shiva?

Is simplicity and non-duplicity the same as humility or truthfulness?

Did the Gita originally have 745 verses?

Gita 02.51 – Same action with higher motivation bestows higher destination

Is the Gita relevant today?

Gita 02.50 – Yoga facilitates individualized artistic infusion of work with devotion

Gita 02.49 – The good becomes bad when it becomes the enemy of the best

Gita 02.48 – Yoga requires material indifference to provide spiritual transcendence

Gita 02.47 – Make sense of four counterintuitive assertions by seeing the full picture

Gita 02.46 – Understand multivalence of Veda to grasp how transcending the Vedas fulfills their purpose

Gita 02.44 – Prevent attachment from abducting consciousness by intelligence and taste

Gita 02.43 – The Vedic masterplan uses dharma to raise people from kama to prema

Gita 02.42 – Flowery words of Vedas distract from their ultimate wisdom

Gita 02.41 – Intent shapes intelligence

Gita 02.40 – The spiritual path comes with a no-loss and a fear-relieving guarantee

Does Krishna consider Arjuna’s concerns about destruction of family meaningless?

Gita 02.39 – Use buddhi to transform theoretical sankhya into practical yoga

Gita 02.38 – To reconcile the Gita’s contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions

Does the Gita offer spiritual solution to spiritual problem or to material problem?

Gita 02.37 – Knowledge of atma and dharma redefines lose-lose situation as win-win

Gita 02.36 – Behave respectably to bring respectability to Krishna’s message

Gita 02.35 – The variance between our intention and people’s perception causes mortifying misconception

Gita 02.34 – Engage the power of honor to encourage honorable action

Gita 02.33 – Honorable position brings obligation of tangible contribution

Gita 02.32 – Dharma rewards success according to each varna’s definition of success

Gita 02.31 – Dharma is not a blanket injunction but an individualized customization

Gita 02.30 – Knowlege of the soul is not a call for resignation but for action

Gita 02.29 – Perception, verbalization, reception and incomprehension wrt soul are all amazing

Gita 02.28 – The mutability of everything materially magnifies the futility of grief

Gita 02.27 – See death not as a future event, but as an ongoing process

Let intelligence take from the poison phase to the nectar phase

Gita 02.26 – Materialism makes meaning meaningless and lamentation pointless

Gita 02.25 – Contemplate the inconceivable to relish the spiritual

Gita 02.24 – The soul can’t be stopped from going anywhere nor forced to go anywhere

Gita 02.23 – The utter indestrutibility of the soul underlies the path of difficult duty

Gita 02.22 – The dress metaphor redefines death not as a miserable termination but as a welcome transition

Gita 02.21 – Integrate knowledge of the soul with the purpose of that knowledge

Gita 02.20 – The soul doesn’t undergo the six changes that matter does

Gita 02.19 – The soul’s non-doership points to the complexity of matter-spirit interaction

Is Krishna’s reference to Arjuna as Bharata spiritual because the Bharata dynasty is filled with liberated souls?

If Krishna addresses Arjuna as per the bodily conception, does it mean that Krishna is in the bodily conception?

Gita 02.18 – The immeasurability of soul points to its non-literal non-metaphorical measure

Gita 02.17 – Nothing can destroy the soul because it pervades everything

Gita 02.16 – Matter has no existence in the sense of having no lasting consequence

Gita 02.15 – Those unaffected by the temporary attain the eternal

Gita 02.14 – The material is peripheral, unavoidable and ephemeral – so tolerate it

Gita 02.13 – The body is changing, not just growing – so focus on the unchanging

Gita 02.12 – Spirit is not just eternal but also plural

Gita 02.11 – The ability to harmonize the walk with the talk characterizes the wise

Gita 02.10 – Change in the seeker’s mood evokes change in the teacher’s mood

Gita 02.09 – The decision of inaction reflects desperation to learn

Gita 02.08 – Outer success can’t remove inner distress

Gita 02.07 – Arjuna exhibits 3 characteristics of an ideal disciple

Gita 02.06 – Find way through lose-lose problems by seeking emotional distance

Gita 02.05 – Hard choices have to be made to avoid harder consequences

Gita 02.04 – Resolve conflicts among different roles by raising consciousness

Gita 02.04 Fight not for or against some material cause – fight for Krishna

Gita 02.03 – Fight degrading temptation by remembering honoroble position

Gita 02.02 – Arya – Spiritual denotation, historical concoction and modern connotation

Gita 02.01 – Arjuna’s analysis only aggravates his agony

Was Arjuna aware of the soul’s existence before hearing the Gita?

Gita 01.46 – When the eye disheartens, let the ear hearten

Gita 01.45 – Sound arguments from a fragmented perception are actually unsound

Gita 01.44 – Arjuna’s reasoning is wrong, but his capacity for reasoning is laudable

Gita 01.43 – Hell forever is a subjective feeling, not an objective fact

Gita 01.42 – Three meanings of dharma

Gita 01.41 – Unwanted progeny – what does unwanted mean?

Gita 01.40 – Protecting women and ensuring good progeny are important social responsibilities

Gita 01.39 – As soon as dharma weakens adharma attacks

Gita 01.38 – Don’t let the anartha-maddened make us similarly mad

Gita 01.37 – Greed gives us a tunnel vision of reality

Gita 01.36 – Contemplate contextual karmic considerations before acting

Gita 01.35 – Arjuna’s profit-loss calculations miss the most important factor

Gita 01.34 – Arjuna’s evolved emotion and reason ready to be raised to the summit by Gita wisdom

Gita 01.33 – The contrasting words of Arjuna and Duryodhana reveal their consciousness’ levels

Gita 01.32 – Whom we live for determines the quality of our life

Gita 01.31 – Material long-term is not long-term enough

Gita 01.30 – Where materialism shows a dead end spirituality shows the way ahead

Gita 01.29 – The inner attack of emotions does what no outer attack of enemies could have done

Gita 01.28 – To avoid being consumed by material emotions, cultivate spiritual emotions