Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (16.17) describes the godless to be self-complacent and impudent (atma-sambhavitahstabdah). They throw morality and spirituality to the winds for the sake of pursuing self-centered pleasures. To further their egocentric ends, they create a...
Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
We have two essential faculties: the head and the heart. The head is our intellectual center and the heart, our emotional center. The Bhagavad-gita being a book of intellectual adventure with an emotional climaxaddresses both of our core faculties. Let's see how....
Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (15.10) warns us against unwittingly subscribing to the childish idea of “seeing is believing.” This idea, known in philosophical parlance as naïve realism, is the primitive belief system in which one imagines that reality is the way...
Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
The word “immaterial” can refer to “that which is not made of matter” and “that which doesn’t matter.” The immaterial (the non-material) isimmaterial (unimportant). So believe the ungodly who consider the material to be...
Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
When external problems trouble us, we may feel that they need to be solved first, and so we can’t afford time for our inner life. Paradoxically, Gita wisdom suggests that we need our inner life the most during such troubling times. Let’s see why. The sixth...
Sep 26, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (13.16) states that Krishna is situated far away from us – and is simultaneously very close to us. Paradoxical scriptural statements like this point to the inconceivable attributes of Krishna. At the same time, they can also refer to our...