Everything is not relative – everything is related
Nowadays many people believe in the relativity of everything: “You stay happy with your opinion, I will stay happy with mine.” While we all are [...]
Just as wet clothes can’t dry us, an impure mind can’t purify us
Suppose we get drenched by rains. On rushing home, if we try to dry ourselves using the wet clothes we are wearing, we labor in [...]
Hearing is the heart of healing
Gita wisdom explains that we all are presently in a spiritually diseased condition. We are eternal spiritual beings, but are seeking pleasure in temporary material [...]
We may have to disagree, but we don’t have to be disagreeable
While interacting with others, we may find some people’s opinions utterly unacceptable. Their perspective and understanding may be so different from ours that we can’t [...]
When we become at home in Krishna, we go home to Krishna
When we start practicing spiritual life seriously, we aspire to attain the supreme spiritual reality, Krishna, by attaining his eternal abode, which is our ultimate [...]
Living the way our senses dictate is not living at all
Suppose a person is driving a car, but the car doesn’t move at all. Then whether what they are doing is driving is open to [...]
Spiritual growth requires rising from “either-or” thinking to “and” thinking
While driving through a fork, we have to choose one of the two roads. We often superimpose this materially useful either-or attitude on spiritual understanding. [...]
Obsession can make the covetous murderous
The greed that is present in all human hearts makes us covet for more and more things, way beyond what we need. Such greed, though [...]
Subtler joys aren’t smaller – they are just softer
Affection can be conveyed by both a long, tight hug as well as by a quick, gentle squeeze of the shoulder. To appreciate the affection [...]