Krishna’s love is unconditional yet conditional

The Bhagavad-gita (09.30) urges us to recognize as saintly a devotee who, though guilty of grievous misconduct, is still determined to serve Krishna. The next verse (09.31) first assures that such a devotee will soon get reformed and then proclaims that Krishna due to...

The SOUND is the way to love

The Bhagavad-gita (09.14) states that advanced devotees engage constantly and determinedly in speaking and singing about Krishna. The fact that they focus so much on divine sound points to its defining role in their devotional advancement. In fact, sacred sound is one...

Let’s keep our intelligence FIT

The Bhagavad-gita (5.22) states that those who are intelligent never delight in sense pleasures because they understand how it always ends in misery. This verse indicates that we need a functional or healthy intelligence to understand how sense pleasures end in...

The Sense, the Nonsense and the Trans-Sense of Worldly Mania

Our world is beset by various manias: filmstar-mania, sportstar-mania, musician-mania, to name a few. Some of us may have wondered: why do people spend so much of their hard-earned money, their precious time and especially their emotional energy on these ephemeral and...

Love that doesn’t appoint to DIS-appoint

Worldly love promises much but delivers little; it appoints to dis-appoint. But Krishna’s love never disappoints. To understand why, let’s use an acronym DIS (the difference between appoint and disappoint): 1. Durable: Love for Krishna is durable, in...

Matters that matter more than matter

Most of us usually remain preoccupied with our material needs and desires, and the material world where they can be fulfilled. When matter is all that matters to us, why should Krishna, who resides far beyond the world of matter, matter to us? Because, Gita wisdom...