Let’s stop serving God as advisors

Everyone wants to serve God as an advisor. This is true even, and especially, for atheists; their normally non-existent god pops into existence whenever they feel like advising him, and vanishes into non-existence after gratefully accepting their counsel. However, as...

Not just believing, but belonging

The Bhagavad-gita (04.35) explains that when we become illumined by spiritual knowledge, we understand that we are Krishna’s, that is, we belong to him. Many people may believe generally in God or even specifically in Krishna as God. This Gita verse indicates...

How and why the Bhagavad-gita enthrones the path of love

Those familiar with the Gita sometimes raise the question: “When the Gita mentions various spiritual paths like karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and ashtanga-yoga, what is the need to stress only the path of bhakti-yoga?” Because that is the stress of the Gita...

The Genius of the Bhagavad-gita

The genius of the Bhagavad-gitais that it takes a specific real-life situation, examines it philosophically and offers a universal pragmatic solution. The Gita begins with Arjuna’s weak-hearted capitulation: at the end of the first chapter (1.46) he puts aside...

The one achievement that misery cannot reach

All of us want to achieve something glorious in life. Unfortunately however, even if we achieve something special materially, whatever we achieve still leaves us prone to the twin miseries of hankering and lamenting. We hanker because, no matter what we gain, the...

Are we guided by a moving lighthouse?

Navigating life’s journey amidst the unpredictable worldly ups and downs is like navigating a boat in dark, turbulent waters. Just as the boat would be lost without a lighthouse, we would be lost without a reliable basis for our decision-making. We usually make...