Vedic Scriptures

Gita 09.17 – Krishna is the sustainer of our sustainers

What does the Gita verse karmany evadhikaraste mean?

Gita 09.15 – Jnana yajna is not the same as jnana-yoga

Gita 09.14 – See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication

Intention in tension? (Ramayana Reflections 6)

Gita 09.13 – Krishna’s attractiveness is original and inexhaustible

Association reminds us of our spiritual glory

Gita 9.12 – Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished

Gita 09.27 – Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels

Gita 09.16 – See beyond the technical to the transcendental

Gita 09.11 – To claim the impersonal to be Krishna’s param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible

Gita 09.10 – Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause

How did Duryodhana win Balaram over to his side?

God proposes, Man Disposes – Understanding Krishna’s failed peace mission

Gita 09.09 – Krishna is concerned but not sentimental

Gita 09.07 – Repetition of discussion is meant for elevation of vision

Gita 09.06 – Krishna limits not our freedom but the scope of our freedom

Overcome discouragement through spiritual wisdom

Why does the Bhagavatam end with impersonal knowledge?

Gita 09.05 – God’s self-contradiction points to his inconceivable multi-level manifestations

Three special results of loving Krishna – PSI: Purification Satisfaction Illumination (Bhagavatam 1.2.14)

Gita 09.04 – God relates with the world through the impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent

How do impersonalists derive impersonal conclusions from the Gita?

Gita 09.03 – Bhakti harmonizes the temporary with the eternal

How can we do akarma practically?

Gita 09.01 – Krishna’s glory can be appreciated by the devoted, not the envious

Gita 08.28 – Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too

Gita 08.27 – Devotional consistency is more important than chronological accuracy

How is the worship of devatas inclusive within worship of Krishna?

Why does Krishna say the devatas are different from him in chp 7 and same with him in chp 10?

Does karshati in Gita 15.07 refer to attraction or struggle?

Why does the Gita 15.1 compare the Vedas to leaves?

How do we develop the qualities the Gita recommends?

How can I overcome sleepiness when studying the Gita?

Parenting Principles from Bhagavad-gita

Gita 08.26 – Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes

Gita 08.25 – Yogi’s spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world’s gravity pull

Gita 08.24 – Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul’s liberation

Gita 08.23 – The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework

Death and the search for meaning

Gita 08.22 – Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything

Does the Gita contain verses against meat-eating?

What does the Gita say about attachment, detachment and rupture in relationships?

How exactly is work worship – is bad work also worship?

Gita 08.21 – Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world

Gita 08.20 – The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial

Gita 08.19 – Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual

Deconstructing Shishupala’s character assassination of Krishna

Gita 08.18 – Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed

Gita 08.17 – The immortal is not eternal

Gita 08.16 – The world is like a jail or hospital – returning to it is undesirable

Gita 08.15 – Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment

Gita 08.13 – External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation

Gita 08.12 – In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental

Elevating our Emotions (Ramayana Reflections 5)

Gita 08.11 – Liberation in yoga requires renunciation

Gita 08.10 – Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive

Gita 08.09 – Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information

Gita 08.08 – Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna

Gita 08.14 – What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective

Gita 08.07 – Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world

Gita 08.06 – Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position

Gita 08.05 – Our choice at the junction determines our destination

Gita 08.04 – Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna

Gita 08.03 – Spirituality is our nature

Gita 08.02 – Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground

Gita 08.01 – Terms have specific and generic meanings

Appreciating Bhagavatam as rasa shastra

Gita 07.30 – Teacher’s incomprehensible statements test student’s interest and attentiveness

Temptations may come, we don’t have to welcome

Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it

Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady

How are the Bhagavatam’s cantos named?

Gita 07.27 – Go beyond duality by spirituality

Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence

Essence of Gita 5 – Choose God over the world

Essence of Gita 4 – God helps those who let him help them

Essence of Gita 3 – Devotion connects us vertically and horizontally

Essence of Gita 2 – Direct love towards the ultimate object

Essence of Gita 1 – Love is eternal

Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron

How can knowledge alone free us from karmic bondage, as Gita 4.14 says?

Is a person in Krishna consciousness transcendental to varnashrama?

When Arjuna had enough mind control to perform great austerities, why does he say that he can’t control the mind?

How has surrender in Gita 2.7 changed Arjuna’s consciousness when he expresses the same sentiment in 1.35 and 2.8?

When Krishna calls as divine the vision for seeing the Universal Form, why does Vishvanatha Chakravarti call it a downgrade of vision?

When Arjuna was already able to see Krishna’s intimate form why did Krishna have to give him divine vision to see the Universal Form?

How was Sanjay able to see the Universal Form without being given special eyes by Krishna?

Gita 07.24 – To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context

Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation

Gita 07.22 – Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him

Gita 07.21 – Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor

Gita 07.20 – Don’t let desire steal your knowledge

Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga

Gita 07.18 – Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable

Gita 06.47 – The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna

Gita 06.45 – Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection

Gita 07.17 – Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna

Gita 06.46 – Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment – gross or subtle

Gita 06.44 – Past-life’s spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence