Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
People whose emotional faculty is predominant tend to be hotheaded. People whose rational faculty is predominant tend to be coldhearted. Integrating both these faculties in a healthy balance is one of the greatest challenges for leading a productive and fulfilling...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
The news periodically features stories of talented individuals who ruin their promising prospects by succumbing to immorality and greed. For the sake of quick gains, they throw away their integrity and end up disgraced. A moment of indulgence leads them to a lifetime...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
“I have been striving for selflessness and purity, yet I feel repeatedly tempted by selfish and impure pleasures. Will I never make spiritual advancement?” As aspiring devotees we may become disheartened by such thoughts when we find anti-devotional...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
Many people avoid meditating because they feel that meditation requires some extraordinary ability to concentrate that they don't possess. However, the fact is that all of us have the ability required for meditation, as is evident whenever we get lost in a common...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
“I have failed yet again. Maybe I should just give up.” Life’s inevitable reversals sometimes fill us with such defeatist thoughts. At such times, Gita wisdom can free us by pointing out that we are labouring under unnecessarily narrow...
Sep 6, 2013 | Articles
The Bhagavad-gita (02.66)(02.67) indicates that when we let ourselves forget Krishna, we lose access to the inner happiness that comes from remembering him. Consequently, our need for happiness makes us vulnerable to the winds of passing material desires, which...