Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
It’s relatively easy to love ideal people: those who have only virtues, no vices. And we do need to love them so that we develop the inspiration and aspiration to become ideal like them. However, as we live in a world where ideal people are few – even...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (18.66) concludes with the radical call to abandon all dharmas and just surrender to Krishna alone. What is the rationale for this radical call? To grasp the rationale, let’s first understand what the word dharmas may refer to in this context....
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
When faced with financial challenges, we often worry, “What do I live with?” This worry is, no doubt, valid and important. At the same time, such situations are also invaluable impetuses for asking a more fundamental question: “What do I live...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
How can spiritual seekers stay peaceful amidst tempting circumstances? The Bhagavad-gita (2.70) shows the way with a metaphor from nature: just as rivers flow into an ocean without flooding it or causing it to overflow, desires flow into serious spiritualists without...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
History, if seen from a purely materialistic perspective, seems to be nothing more than a list of names of dead successful people. Decade after decade, century after century, millennia after millennia, people come, people live, people die. What is the point of it all?...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (16.02) mentions that the godly are averse to faultfinding. Why averse? Gita wisdom explains the rationale. All of us have a godly side and a godless side. The godly side begets virtues and the godless side, faults. When we delight in finding...