GitaWisdom

The three level model of the self (Atma) according to Bhagavad-gita

Demystifying leadership through Gita – Chaitanya Charan

Our Attachments Are Like A Rented House That We Dont Usually Leave Unless We Are Evicted Gita 07.01

Our Individuality Is Defined Not By What We Wear But By What We Hold Dear Gita 15.07

There Is A Purpose For Everything We Experience Even The Things We Dont Want To Experience BG 5.20

The More Outer Power We Get The More Inner Power We Need Gita 16.21

To Be Truly Non – Judgmental Stop Being Judgmental About Those Who Are Judgmental

Even If Others Dont Take Us Seriously Still We Can Take Ourselves Seriously Gita 06.05

Condescension Looks Down At Others While Laughing At Them Compassion Lifts Others Up While Laughing

Showing Others Wrong Is Not Compassion Seeing How They Can Help Themselves Become More Right Is 3.26

Sincerity Can Show The Path To Ability It Cant Substitute For Ability Gita 02.06

The World Doesnt Need People With Answers As Much As It Needs People Who Are The Answers Gita 18.73

Overlords Are Meant Not To Lord It Over Others But To Lead Others Over To The Lord Gita 18.43

Individuality Breeds Creativity And Spirituality Individualism Breeds Self – Obsession Destruction

Gods Transcendence Means That He Is Free From Taking Sides And Free For Taking Sides

To Take The Task Of Training The Mind Seriously Stop Taking Everything It Says Seriously. Gita 6.34

Destiny May Determine The Complexion Of Our Face But We Determine The Expression On Our Face 09.06

Just Because Its Not Up To You Doesnt Mean That You Are Not Up To It – Dont Cry Try Gita 11.33

Dont Be So Afraid Of The Irrational As To Deny The Possibility Of The Transrational Gita 04.39

The Stronger The Hold Of Problems On Our Mind The Weaker Becomes Our Hold On Ourselves Gita 06.05

Gita Equips The Thoughtful To Become More Faithful And The Faithful To Become More Thoughtful 18.63

The Less We Identify With Our Thoughts The Less We Become Thoughtless Gita 14.23

When Long – Awaited Good Thing Happensbe Grateful It Happened Not Resentful That It Happened So Late

Contemplation Is The Foundation Of Action Without It What We Do Is Not Action But Reaction

The Mind Is Not Afraid To Interrupt Us Dont Be Afraid To Interrupt It Gita 06.26

The Mind Is A Persecutor Who Pretends To Be The Persecuted Gita 18.35

Better To Endure Cravings That Seem Unbearable Than To Endure Consequences That Are Unbearable 16.12

The Best Way To Watch The Mind Is To Have Something Better To Watch Gita 06.47

The More We Are Aimless The More We Become Shameless Gita 02.41

To Deal With Fear Focus On What Is Not On What If Gita 18.35 

If We Get Into The Minds Discourse We Go Down A Disastrous Course Gita 06.34

The Essence Of Discipline Is To Make Our Intelligence Faster Than Our Mind Gita

When Achievements Feel Pointless – Gita Verses 15 Gita 2.8 – 2.10

Arjunas Universal Question – Gita Verses 14 Gita 2.07

Arjunas Qualification For Hearing Gita Wisdom- Gita Verses 11 Gita 1.44 – 46

India Train Crash: A Bhagavad Gita Perspective

The Kerala story – A Bhagavad Gita perspective

When someone is trying to manipulate us, should we still not get cross with them?

Why does Prabupada give devotional explanations for Bhagavad Gita sections that are not exactly devotional?

When God doesn’t seem to be equal to everyone – Bhagavad gita 09.34

Three understandings of surrender in the Bhagavad Gita

Gita key verses course 45 – Speak to give peace of mind, not a piece of your mind – Gita 17.15

Gita key verses course 44 – Isn’t spirituality a matter of the heart – Why so many rules – Gita 16.24

Don’t let Prabhupada’s difficult statements become difficulties – The Monk’s Podcast 103 with Yogeshvara Prabhu

Gita key verses course 43 – Are some people innately bad – Gita 16.06

Why do senior devotees sometimes judgmentally dismiss other devotees because of just one mistake

If our past karma impels us to wrongdoing, do we get further bad karma?

Can our past karma force us into wrongdoing – then how do we have free will?

Does our varna change with time – can we belong to several varnas?

Gita key verses 41 – What is the upside-down tree metaphor Gita 15.01

Gita key verses course 40 – What are the modes why do they matter – Gita 14.05

Was Abhimanyu killed because he acted without consulting his superiors?

Do We Need To Be Politically Correct And Say That All Paths Are The Same When Addressing Devotees?

Gita Jayanti talk – The Gita provides Partha with paramartha

Gita 02.03 Identify behavior that is out of character with our character

Gita 01.46 The significance of our actions depends not just on the actions but also on the situations in which we do those actions

Gita 01.44 When our emotion rules our reason, we rationalize a one-sided view of reality

Gita 01.43 Hearing is important, but from whom we are hearing is even more important

Gita 01.41 When the family is disrupted, the faith of the children is also devastated

Gita 01.39 Our sense of honor coming from our lineage can raise us but can also stop us from rising to the highest

Gita 01.38 To restrain a violent madman, their restrainers may have to fight like the madman

Gita 01.37 Consciousness that is contaminated becomes conquered and covered

Gita 01.36 The ethical tension between kula-dharma and kshatriya-dharma leads to emotional over-reaction and physical inaction

Gita 01.35 Our pleasure-pain calculation determines our decisions and is determined by our worldview

Gita 01.34 To retaliate and cause death requires courage, but to not retaliate at the cost of one’s own death requires greater courage

Gita 01.33 When various purposes pull us in different directions, we need to prioritize our purposes

Gita 01.32 Don’t let the means to an end become an end that diverts us from the actual ends

Gita 01.31 What we think of as long-term may not be long-term enough

Gita 01.30 When we face challenges bigger than ourselves, we look for omens to sense the intentions of forces bigger than ourselves

Practical application of the Gita – MAIL acronym

Gita 01.29 Know which emotion is mental and which spiritual not just by content, but also by context and consequence

Gita 01.28 Our thought-train’s journey from intentions to actions is diverted by our emotions

Gita 01.27 The sequence of perception determines the consequence on our emotion

Gita 01.26 When we can’t fight the circumstances that make us fight against our loved ones, we have to fight against our loved ones

Gita 01.24 The position of maximum visibility is also the position of maxiumum vulnerability

Gita 01.23 Virtue doesn’t count when determining the military count in a fight

Gita 01.22 Asking to see something that is already known points to a dynamic that is not known

Gita 01.21 The non-partisan position of the Gita’s revelation points to its universality

Gita 01.20 Life is so unpredictable that it can unbalance the unflappably balanced

Gita 01.19 The Pandavas win the mental battle before the physical battle

The Gita tells us to do karma, but also asks us to understand karma – what karma does it refer to?

Gita 01.18 The Pandavas lost Pandu but gained Drupada as a father figure

Gita 01.17 Don’t let minor grammatical disputes overshadow major narrational and philosophical thrust

Gita 01.16 Yudhishthira doesn’t come first in the list of warriors but is still their undisputed leader

Gita 01.15 The devoted see God before they see the world, the undevoted see only the world

If we are already complete as parts of the Complete, how can we feel incomplete?

Gita 01.11 The protector too needs to be protected

Gita 01.09 Duryodhana’s slip of tongue leads to his speaking the truth unintentionally

Gita 01.08 We need to be calm-headed, not cold-blooded

Gita 01.07 Be aware of how what we say to one person may be heard by others

How Gita wisdom addresses mental health problems

How to effectively study and apply the Gita

How do we strengthen the intelligence?

If this world is a place of misery why does it have so much pleasure too?