Our material needs are like painkillers – necessary but not sufficient
Some people argue that our spiritual side is optional and superfluous – our material needs are what matter. Yes, material things are necessary, but they [...]
The value of our work is not determined by our work’s market value
Our market-driven culture places a price tag on everything, even things such as artistic talents whose value is often not reducible to monetary terms. Such [...]
Love is not just feeling – it is giving
Love is commonly used to refer to the strong emotion that one person may feel for another. Yet love is not just a feeling; it [...]
Material progress centers on having what we want; spiritual progress, on wanting what we have
Some people feel that taking to spiritual life means abandoning all efforts to progress in life. But their feeling stems from an unexamined assumption: progress [...]
When your mental expressway gets overcrowded, direct your thought traffic with your intelligence
Suppose we are caught in a traffic jam on an expressway. We honk and maneuver, but make little progress. But instead of staying vexed, we [...]
Gita 5.27 explained
Now try to understand Chapter overview by trying to understand what is happening: In Arjun’s mind there were two options action or renunciation, So Sri [...]
Gita 5.19 explained
We are in third section of chapter 05, first section talked about how Karma Yoga brings same result but is easier than Jyana Yoga. And [...]
Gita 5.17 explained
#BG 5.17 So Sri Krishna is saying once we understand the absolute truth what we do after that, then we make that absolute [...]
Caring means sharing
Suppose one person tells another, “I care for you.” But suppose the first person is having food and the second person is hungry. The claim [...]
Surrender to God is not the suppression of human will, but its perfection
Some people hold that surrender to God is demeaning, for it suppresses human will. Their argument assumes that all surrender happens amidst antagonism, as [...]
Materialism reduces life to a disrelation of unrelated events
Suppose we are shown a movie in which events are utterly unconnected; characters pop in and out with no logic; and the story moves without [...]
Krishna is close to us, but we are far away from him
Sometimes we may feel that Krishna is far away from us, existing as he does in the spiritual world. However, Krishna doesn’t exist only in [...]