Vedic Scriptures

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

Bhagavatam study 73 1.14.18.33 – When we apprehend the worst-case scenario we look for alternatives

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

Bhagavatam study 72 1.14.12.17 – Inversion of natural order prophesies inauspiciousness

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

Bhagavatam study 71 1.14.1.11 – Departure of the order-sustaining Lord leads to disruption of that order

Bring out the Hanuman within not the Ravana within

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 4 – How Hanuman provoked to deter Ravana from war

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 3 – Keeping our intention above our emotions

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 2 – Earning trust through emotional intelligence

Lessons from Hanuman’s devotion to Rama 1 – When we hide ourselves from the Lord he hides himself from us

Ramayana series 3 – Rama-Lakshmana – Does destiny control everything?

Ramayana series2 – Vali-Sugriva – Don’t judge without understanding

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

Ramayana series 1 – Manthara-Kaikeyi – How manipulators mislead

Avoid distractions using intelligence directed towards transcendence

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

Bhagavatam study 70 1.13.51-60 Determination directed towards renunciation brings spiritual elevation

Bhagavatam study 69 1.13.46-50 When we can’t protect ourselves from kala, karma and guna, how can we protect others?

Bhagavatam study 68 1.13.39-45 Know when to exercise control in the service of the supreme controller and when to release control

For meditation, we need the right object and the right conception

Duryodhana felt no moral compunction while persecuting the Pandavas, but Dhirtrashtra did – why the difference?

When Abhimanyu was killed, how was Arjuna overcome by illusion?

Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – Ambition distorted by envy becomes cancerous

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

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – How the entitlement mentality degrades

Analyzing yoga and bhakti to keep practice in harmony with purpose

How small conflicts become big – Daksha pastime analysis 4 – How impulses are shaped by technology, mentality and spirituality

Shakuni Character Analysis 2 – Evaluate whether our relationships bring out our best or our worst

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

Ramayana series 4 – SEES acronym – 4 explanations why Rama abandoned Sita

Ramayana series 3 – Shurapanakha’s slyness – Beware of those who manipulate us using our weakness

Ramayana series 2 – Maricha’s miscalculation – Our destination is not as important as our action

Ramayana Series 1 – Dasharatha’s dilemma

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?

Remembrance of Krishna cuts karmic bondage by providing intelligence taste and love

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

Bhagavatam study 67 01.13.30-38 When it is time to renounce embrace renunciation as a challenge and avoid discouragers

Do gopis know Krishna’s future pastimes?

Gopi Gita 2 – “You alone can free us from contamination and tribulation – please return”

Did Krishna appear in Mathura or in both Mathura and Vrindavan?

Gopi Gita 1 – “Whoever you are – Lord or lover – please come back”

Bhagavatam study 66 01.13.24-29 Detachment emerges from education that changes our definition of success

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

Gajendra Moksha Katha 5 – Which comes first – giving up lower taste or getting higher taste – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 4 – How age helps us become renounced – and how it doesn’t – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 3 – Understanding when to wield control and when to yield control – Hindi

Gajendra Moksha Katha 2 – Deviated spiritualists may lose the human body but not their spiritual attraction – Hindi

Is Chitraketu’s accepting Parvati’s curse even when he was not at fault meant to instruct us to accept whatever happens to us – Hindi?

Gajendra Moksha Katha 1 – Understanding how our mental impressions shape us – Hindi