When we strive to improve ourselves, we often encounter internal resistance—our mind obstructs and even sabotages our progress. When such resistance happens repeatedly and relentlessly, [...]
Stop worrying about the mind's unpredictability; start working on your RAP—readiness, alertness, purposefulness In dealing with our mind, we often feel confused or even confounded [...]
What the uninformed downplay as opinions, the informed celebrate as taste. We live in a world full of relativity—relativity in opinions, preferences, and perceptions. For [...]
Detachment: Be cool-headed, not cold-hearted As we strive for spiritual growth, detachment is often emphasized as a vital virtue. However, detachment is frequently misunderstood. It’s [...]
The desires we chase over time become the demons that chase us A strange psychological reversal often occurs within us as we navigate the workings [...]
Know when to stay away from our triggers, and when to take the bullet away from the gun We all have triggers that evoke strong, [...]
Performative activism refers to the phenomenon where a person takes up a noble cause not to genuinely make a difference, but to gain recognition and [...]
We may have to compartmentalize our life in terms of our activity, but we should not compartmentalize our life in terms of our identity. In [...]
All of us are affected by our past to varying degrees. Some of us may have incurred wounds so deep that we feel permanently damaged, [...]
Devotion is meant to be practiced in the mode of absorption, not in the mode of achievement. We live in a society that celebrates achievements [...]
The more we listen to our mind’s dictation, the more we let it become our dictator Our mind constantly speaks within us, commenting on what [...]
The Bhagavad Gita concludes with Krishna asking Arjuna whether he was able to hear attentively and whether his illusions were thereby dispelled. This question points [...]
Pride doesn't just come before a fall; pride brings the fall -- we will be blasted for the very things about which we boasted. In [...]
When we are attached to someone, we become desperately dependent on their approval. We feel as if we cannot live with ourselves if they don’t [...]
The language issue is becoming increasingly politically polarized in India. For example, what is being perceived as the imposition of Hindi on the rest of [...]
Within each of us exists a power struggle: a dynamic between us, as spiritual beings (souls), and our mind. The mind serves as the intermediary [...]
It’s possible to win the support of every thinking person in a group and still be in a minority in that very group. We live [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.47: yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ "Among all yogis, the greatest is one, Whose immersion [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.44 pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hy avaśo ’pi saḥ jijñāsur api yogasya śabda-brahmātivartate "By past practice, one is drawn along, By a pull [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.43 tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ saṁsiddhau kuru-nandana "There he regains the wisdom past, From former lives that [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.42 athavā yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām etad dhi durlabhataraṁ loke janma yad īdṛśam "Or else, they’re born where yogis dwell, Among [...]
