Bhakti makes the spiritual journey a joyful journey

Emotions differentiate us conscious beings from unconscious things. As matter doesn’t have the capacity to experience emotions, the presence of that capacity in us suggests that there is more to our identity than matter, that we are spiritual beings. Yet it is a...

Let’s make our memory our treasury

When the present presents us with difficulties, we often turn to our memories of past emotionally fulfilling moments for inspiration.  As our culture bombards us with a media blitz, our strongest emotions usually come from such media images. For example, our most...

Apart or a part?

Some people equate becoming spiritual with becoming unambitious. However, bhakti spirituality centers on ambitiousness, albeit of a kind different from the individualistic ambitiousness glamorized by our present culture. Contemporary culture often defines success as...

Is the immediate becoming the enemy of the ultimate?

We often get caught in the exigencies and emergencies that keep coming up in our lives.Despite knowing the importance of developing our relationship with Krishna, we are just not able to allocate time for it. When this unfortunate patternbecomes repetitive, it is a...

The Gita lives through those who live the Gita

Many people hesitate to apply the Bhagavad-gita in their lives because they doubt whether its guidelines given thousands of years ago are practical today. Their doubt originates in a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the Gita wisdom-tradition. A living...

The Gita takes us through the head to the heart

Our heart longs for love, but our head checks us, warning us that the longing for love will make us disappointed and frustrated. Most of us have seen how worldly love makes people into doing rash things and eventually paying a heavy price for it. Sooner or later,...