Vedic Scriptures

If the Gita is contextual, why is it considered such an important scripture?

Is Modi anti-secular in giving the Gita to other heads of state?

Is the Gita a religious book or a secular book?

Why does Gita 7.25 use yoga-maya instead of maha-maya?

Does the Gita ask Arjuna to choose job over family?

Was Bhishma an impersonalist – he refers to Krishna in the third person not the second person?

What is the difference between spiritual, transcendental and devotional?

Retreat within to treat without

Value Education 14 – Mahabharata 8 – Draupadi – Ask not why this but how now

Value Education 13 – Mahabharata 7 – Yudhisthira 1 – Gambling

Value Education 12 – Mahabharata 6 – Karna 3 – Respond to adversity with integrity

Value Education 11 – Mahabharata 5 – Karna 2 – Life of honor is more important than

Value Education and Spirituality 10 – Mahabharata 4 – Karna 1 – Choose friends that bring out our best, not our worst

Value Education 29 – Ramayana 11 – Vali 2 – Judging without understanding ruins relationships

Does papa-yonayah in Gita 9.32 refer to a fourth category?

Does Gita 18.56 refer to karma-yoga or bhakti-yoga?

How can a material process karma-yoga grow into the transcendental process bhakti-yoga?

Value Education 30 – Ramayana 12 – Vali 3 – Real repentance is seen in rectification

Value Education and Spirituality 28 – Ramayana 10 – Vali 1 – Judging without understanding ruins relationships

Value Education and Spirituality 27 – Ramayana 9 – Shabari – See not the body’s caste – see the heart’s character

Value Education and Spirituality 26 – Ramayana 8 – Jatayu – Fight atrocities against women

Value Education and Spirituality 25 – Ramayana 7 – Lakshmana – Don’t ascribe intention to what is spoken in tension

Value Education and Spirituality 24 – Ramayana 6 – The illusory dear – Use intelligence to see beyond appearance to substance

Value Education and Spirituality 23 – Ramayana 5 – Shurapanakha – Don’t let the selfish exploit our sexual vulnerabiity

Value Education and Spirituality 22 – Ramayana 4 – Bharata – Stick to integrity amidst opportunity for immorality

Value Education and Spirituality 21 – Ramayana 3 – Dasharatha – Honor one’s word even at great personal cost

Value Education and Spirituality 20 – Ramayana 2 – Rama – Go beyond fight or flight to choose the best response

Value Education and Spirituality 19 – Ramayana 1 – Kaikeyi – Don’t be deluded by malicious misinformers

Is karma-yoga superior to jnana-yoga according to the Gita chp 3?

Why does the Bhagavad-gita immediately after rejecting bodily identity address Arjuna with names which reinforce that very identity?

Which dictionary meaning of the word ‘mind’ does the Gita refer to?

Mind the mind

Do vaishyas have to do brahminical occupation to come to goodness for practicing bhakti?

Why do we counter-push against lower modes and not against goodness?

When Arjuna’s chariot was destroyed after the MB war, why does he say in SB “The chariot is the same”?

Are those who come to Krishna even for material benefit mahatmas?

Is the jnani of Gita 7.17 one of the four categories of 7.16?

When Prabhupada’s Gita is so obviously not as it is, how can he call it as it is?

What are the ten principles of godly life mentioned in Gita 16.1-3 purport?

Never lose heart

Which other Purana mentions that Bhagavatam is the commentary on the Vedanta Sutra?

Bhagavatam-daily 5 – 11.06.44 – Hearing about Krishna is auspicious and delicious

Redefine success

Bhagavatam-daily 4 – 11.06.43 – We can’t tolerate separation from Krishna, but the mind misleads us

We can’t wish away our bodily identity – we have to work our way through it

Bhagavatam-daily 3 – 11.06.42 – Trust not just Krishna’s power, but also his intelligence

Gita 01.16 – The individual conches manifest individual warrior’s virility

Bhagavatam-daily 2 – 11.06.41 – Submission is the way out of confusion

Gita 01.15 – The top trio in the Pandava army start the action

Bhagavatam-daily 1 – 11.06.40 – Philosophy offers shelter when the world’s shelters fail

Gita 01.14 – The dramatically humble entry of the hero

Be concerned not disturbed

Gita 01.13 – Rituals of war express and stimulate the martial spirit

Bali M rejects Shukracharya, yet Vamana respects him – Why?

Did Bali M surrender out of devotion or fear of dishonor?

Opportunity in Adversity

Gita 01.12 – The valorous grandsire stops the politicking

Gita 01.11 – The manipulator misses the one who matters most

Is the doer the ego as Gita 18.58 states or the modes as Gita 3.27 states?

Spiritualizing our work

Gita 01.10 – Mulitiple meanings of same word reveal the possibilities of multiple interpretations

Gita 01.09 – Listing the warriors’ qualities for enlisting their commitment

Words shape worlds – watch your words

Just as a bigger Mahabharata exists in the heavens does a bigger Gita also exist?

What is the meaning of the Gita statement about the moon being the most prominent nakshatra?

Why did Ravana despite being obstinate listen to Maricha first and give up his plan to abduct Sita?

After seeing Rama’s power why did Akampana not flee entirely as did Maricha?

How does Akampana reach Lanka before Shurapanakha?

Dussehra meditation – Differentiating between obstinacy and determination

Does the Gita recommend Deity worship?

Different approaches to Gita study: historical, literary, philosophical, revelational, descriptive, prescriptive

As yogis become bhaktas at their topmost stage does that mean we should practice yoga before bhakti?

Gita 01.08 – Attachment makes the absent present

Why are the divisions of different scriptures called differently – skandha, kanda and parva

What is the difference between phenomenal and numinous in Gita 7.2

Gita 01.07 – Repetition of known information conveys prioritization

Gita 01.06 – Their great warriors counterbalance our greater strength

Gita 01.05 – Affiliations were shaped by long-term affinity not short-term antipathy

Gita 01.04 – Our inner frame of reference shapes our outer focus of reference

Gita 01.03 – The politician seeks martial dedication by emotional manipulation

What does being free from all dualities mean wrt devotional service?

Did the Pandavas go to heaven or the spiritual world?

When Krishna says that the knowledge in disciplic succession was lost, weren’t the four sampradayas available at that time?

A devotee is already righteous, so why does Krsna say that he becomes righteous in Gita 9.31?

What is the difference between nitya and shashvata in Gita 2.20?

How can we convert our work in office into yajna?

What is the difference between karma yoga, buddhi yoga and bhakti yoga?

Gita 01.02 – Duryodhana’s choice of conversant reveals his political intent

If Arjuna was superior to Karna, why does Bhagavatam say he was a small fish in an ocean of giant fishes?

Gita 01.01 – The transcendental manifests as the geographical

Why does Krishna refer to someone else as the object of surrender in the Gita 18.62?

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the necessary but not sufficient condition for knowledge

Value Education and Spirituality 9 – Mahabharata 3 – Vidura – Be a forgiving not a forgetful friend

What does the Gita’s chp 13 title ‘Nature, enjoyer and consciousness’ refer to?

Is the universal form in the Gita’s ninth chapter a conceptualization and the eleventh chapter, a revelation?

What does the Gita’s inverted tree metaphor signify?

Why does the Gita use a setting of war to convey its transcendental message when such a setting can be abused to provoke communal violence?

What is the theory of reflection Prabhupada refers to in the Gita 2.13 purport?

Why does Krishna emphasise consciousness at death which is much more uncontrollable than consciousness while living?

Meditation on the only prayers to Balaram in the Bhagavatam