Krishna’s concluding revelation: Secret or Private?
Krishna's revelation of the Bhagavad Gita in its conclusion is private, not secret. When Krishna at the end of the Gita states that this knowledge [...]
From impotent rage to patient resolve
Patient resolve is far more transformational than impotent rage. Whenever we see that something is wrong, in outside us or even inside us, we may [...]
How to make discipline easier
Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that if we want to achieve [...]
Building the road to self-realization
How to make discipline easier Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that [...]
Radicalization still matters
What differentiates activism from radical activism is that activism may be constructive, but radical activism is almost always destructive. The word radical is becoming increasingly [...]
Impurities are feeding us poison
The mind often makes us feed the very people who are feeding us poison. Suppose in real life, we were offering abundant and expensive and [...]
When we seem to be on the losing side
Spirituality may seem to be like the losing side, but it is the ultimately winning side. When we start practicing spirituality, and especially when we [...]
The ultimate reality of who we are
Even if the world is materialistic and increasingly so, reality remains spiritual and eternally so. Sometimes when we see how materialistic the world is becoming, [...]
What is non-negotiable for us?
If we make everything negotiable, then we ourselves end up becoming negotiable. Life often requires negotiations, but if we don't have anything that is non-negotiable, [...]
Taking a hard line can give us hope
If we can take a hard line on one thing, then we can take a hard line on other things too. We all sometimes feel [...]
The price of self-transformation
The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. [...]
Intelligence being contaminated and controlled by lust
The intelligence that entertains indiscriminate indulgence is bad. The intelligence that endorses such indulgence is worse. And the intelligence that espouses such indulgence is the [...]
Supporting a cause
The absence of ability is excusable. The absence of will isn't. Whenever something important is to be done, if someone is not able to do [...]
Willpower
The difference between lack of ability and lack of will is found in situations of necessity, even emergency. When someone says that they can't do [...]
Celebrating success
The point of celebrating is not escaping from work, but it is escaping to a more fulfilling kind of work. Whenever we celebrate success, we [...]
Naive or cynical – a balanced approach
To be naive is bad but so is to be cynical, better to be intelligent. When we are interacting with people, we can be naive [...]
Insulting someone with a compliment
What some people offer as a compliment, others take as an insult. Generally speaking, when we compliment someone, we expect that person to be happy [...]
The desirable–sensible tug of war
What is sensible and what feels desirable are frequently not the same thing – and intelligence means to value the desirable more than the desirable. [...]
The people with whom we need to form deep bonds
We are happy to see some people go and we are happy to see that some people never go. In our lives, we often have [...]
Understanding what makes people tick
What people find surprising tells us not just about the surprise but also about the people. When we interact with people, we often want to [...]
There are two kinds of people
There are two kinds of people: people who never disappoint and people who never fail to disappoint. There are some people who always stay true [...]