Did I change my mind or did my mind change me?

The Bhagavad-gita (06.05) enjoins that we elevate ourselves with our mind and not degrade ourselves with it. This intriguing verse indicates the volatile nature of our relationship with our mind. When we control our mind, our actions tend to be elevating. But when our...

Could our feelings be not our feelings?

The Bhagavad-gita (14.22) explains that serious spiritual seekers distance themselves from their feelings by consciously choosing to observe those feelings instead of acting on them. Sometimes our mind gets flooded by negative feelings like hatred toward someone with...

Is the black hole of lust devouring us?

The Bhagavad-gita (3.37) states that lust is the all-devouring sinful enemy of the world. In its capacity to devour everything that comes within its reach, lust is like a black hole. Once lust catches us in its gravity pull, it can gobble everything that makes us...

Those who desire to be fused are confused

Many people think that the ultimate goal of spirituality is to merge into God, whom they conceive as a dazzling, all-pervading spiritual light known as Brahman. Gita wisdom explains that this desire for fusion arises from a fundamental confusion about God’s...

Where are our roots?

The Bhagavad-gita (2.16) encourages us to meditate on the difference between the unchanging, the spiritual realm within, and the changing, the material realm without. Gita wisdom further urges us to grow our roots in the world within: in realization of our own...

How our freedom of thought is lost – and regained

The Bhagavad-gita (2.44) indicates that worldly attachments, especially attachments to sex and money, abduct our consciousness and sabotage our prospects for inner stability. Whenever we enjoy any sense object, a subtle invisible rope is formed between us and that...