Bhagavad Gita

Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity not popularity

Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity

Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy

Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed

Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend

Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification

Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively not destructively

Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3

How are fruitive activities the engagements of one’s reactions from past good or bad deeds?

Our goals are the results we seek – how can we set goals but be detached from results?

Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology – can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3

Reflections on the last verse spoken by Krishna in the Gita – Hindi

Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world focus on contribution from yourself.mp3

Gita 17.10 Food in ignorance isn’t nourishing satisfying or appealing.mp3

Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3

Gita 17.08 Food in goodness provides profusely both nutrition and satisfaction

Gita 17.07 Food sacrifice charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles

Gita 17.06 Defying scripture be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body is demonic

Gita 17.05 Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity

Gita 17.04 Our level of consciousness determines who we feel is worshipable

Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal constitutional and consequential

Gita 17.02 See not just people’s ideological faith – see also their functional faith

Gita 17.01 The Gita universalizes and contextualizes the analytical framework of the three modes

Gita 16.24 Knowing scripture is our responsibility and our opportunity

Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next

Gita 16.22 To pursue our self-interest we need to purge out self-defeating desires

Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust anger and greed

Gita 16.20 Demoniac action and demoniac destination is perpetuated by demoniac disposition

Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations

Gita 16.18 When bad situations make us take shelter of our bad side we become bad people

Gita 16.17 Self-complacence and impudence perpetuate ignorance

Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion

Gita 16.15 The ungodly want to look good not become good

Gita 16.14 Greed makes the covetous murderous

Gita 16.13 Let the mind’s chariot take us where we want to go not where it wants to go

Gita 16.12 Sensual desires are ropes of enslavement not roads to enjoyment

Gita 16.11 We make our beliefs and our beliefs make us

If I want to come first in my class am I being attached to results?

Gita 16.10 Taking shelter of lust amidst problems is like taking shelter of kidnappers when threatened by thieves

Gita 16.09 The ungodly are born for destructive action unless they do drastic course correction

Gita 16.08 From atheism to hedonism is a natural slide

Gita 16.07 Observe others actions not to condemn but to help

Gita 16.06 Knowing the inclination of the road where our car is is education not condemnation

Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

Gita 16.03 Giving appropriate honor promotes harmony demanding excessive honor disrupts harmony

Gita 16.02 Our godliness needs to be seen in our harmonious interactions with others

Gita 16.01 Godliness is both a decision and a disposition

The Bhagavad-gita as a leadership guide

How is the Gita relevant today – Marathi

Gita Jayanti class – The Gita brings a message of fearlessness to a fear-filled world

Gita Jayanti talk – Appreciating the Gita’s message by contemplating the starting and ending names of Arjuna and Krishna

The Gita as a book of love – The significance of the first and last words spoken by Krishna and Arjuna

The Bhagavad-gita’s message of love comforts and enlightens

The art of work – Detachment directed by devotion maximizes contribution

Understanding Gita Wisdom – Interview on People of Bhakti at Bhakti Radio Network

Gita 02.20-30 Go beyond lamentation by understanding the eternality of the soul and the multiplicity of its reincarnations

When is violence justified – how is the Gita’s war different from modern World Wars?

How our vision alters our perception – Gita study 01.24-36

How can we know our prescribed duty?

When we start studying Bhagavad-gita what is the motivation for continuing to study material science?

Learning to not go up and down with life’s ups and downs – Gita 02.54-57

God is not present less in the hearts of the godless Gita 15.15

What role does our nature play in our taking shelter of Krishna?

Why is impersonalism condemned in Gita 9.12 and appreciated in Gita 9.15?

Krishna is the trans-personal shelter of all the things that shelter us

Is intelligence not always a good thing?

Is intelligence covered by the mode of ignorance unintelligent?

Why does the Gita in chapter sixteen describe divine qualities in three full verses and demoniac qualities in just one verse?

How is simplicity as an austerity of the body in Gita 17.14 different from simplicity as an austerity of the mind in Gita 17.16?

Morality may be relativized but the consequences of immoral indulgence can’t be relativized Gita 03.17

How is the Gita relevant amidst today’s stress-filled times?

Can all karma be offered to Krishna or does ugra-karma have to be given up?

Can you explain some section of scripture that we can’t easily understand?

What is the best way to understand the Bhagavad-gita?

Why do you speak more on bhakti than on karma which the Gita stresses?

We are never too far away from relapse Gita 02.60

Our intelligence is our security system – don’t let temptation disable it Gita 02.63

Why crave for hours and years for pleasures that last for moments Gita 05.22

To say that philosophy is dead is to be dead to philosophy Gita 18.22

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita just one among the many interpretations of the Gita?

Mental weight can’t be wished away but it can be worked away Gita 06.35

Don’t let perfectionism come in the way of progress towards perfection Gita 02.14

The inner war is unavoidable Gita 03.43

How can we understand that the attractiveness of all attractive things comes from Krishna?

The possibility for self-improvement is reduced by materialism and expanded by spirituality Gita 18.60

Study the Gita for understanding it not undermining it

Once we slip down a slope we can’t control how far we slip down Gita 03.36

The mind can make a soldier into a deserter or even a betrayer Gita 05.22

Don’t waste your mental energy on people on whom you won’t waste your time Gita 11.55

Address misery first by recognizing its fundamental cause then its circumstantial cause Gita 09.33

Don’t give your enemies weapons to beat you with Gita 03.36

Ask not how could he have done that – ask what is to be done next Gita 03.39

Dumbness is not inability to understand gibberish – it is inability to see gibberish for what it is Gita 18.63

Gita 14.11 Don’t chase the objects in perception – clean the doors of perception

Gita 16.08 Materialism strips not only the other world of reality but also this world of meaning

Gita 08.20 Those who reject a world beyond this world sentence themselves to pointless business in this world

Gita 18.58 Devotion brings the inner morale to combat outer problems

Gita 16.11 Technology is not just the provider of facility – it is also the shaper of mentality

Gita 14.04 Dialogue requires methodological humility

Gita 14.11 Our mind can be a transmitter distorter or reflector of our consciousness