1.28 How fear can be an educator
Have you ever met someone who had no tension in a situation you were tense about? Maybe you were coaching them for a critical interview, [...]
1.44 Fear: Factual or fictional?
Have you ever felt the absolute power of fear? You feel a certainty about imminent doom— no doubt that disaster awaits on the path ahead. [...]
3.35 Let fear inform our choices, not deform our values
Fear isn’t always bad. Sometimes it warns us of real dangers to avoid. The Bhagavad Gita (3.35) points to such healthy fear, teaching that choices [...]
1.42 Imagination: your energy, not your enemy
Fear sometimes feels like an inner enemy, beating us relentlessly with a stick. But here’s the twist— the stick used against us actually belongs to [...]
15.7 Fear: unavoidable, not unmanageable
Because life is full of uncertainties, we’ll all sometimes feel anxious, insecure, or worried. We can’t remove fear from life— but we can refuse to [...]
18.35 How to get fear out of your head
Have you ever heard the voice of fear in your head? It can nag, distract, exhaust, overwhelm, even paralyze. But here’s the key: fear can [...]
5.25 You don’t have to be fear-free to be courageous
Whenever we try to change ourselves for the better, fear whispers, “If you fail, they’ll laugh at you.” Such fear will hold us back, till [...]
16.1 The courage to change
Courage isn’t only found on battlefields or in blockbuster-style heroics. The greater courage is quieter—shown in our daily life, when we dare to face our [...]
I seek your shelter, O shelter of all shelters
Bhagavad Gita 9.18 gatir bhartā prabhuḥ sākṣī nivāsaḥ śaraṇaṁ suhṛt prabhavaḥ pralayaḥ sthānaṁ nidhānaṁ bījam avyayam I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, [...]
Free me from the expectation that you will make my path obstacle-free
Bhagavad Gita 9.14 satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā nitya-yuktā upāsate Forever, they sing my glories unending, Endeavor for me [...]
Delhi Blast & the Gita’s Three Levels of Causes
The blast in Delhi has sent shockwaves throughout India and beyond. How do we make sense of such an atrocity? The Bhagavad Gita teaches that [...]
May my vision, conception, and aspiration turn toward you
Bhagavad Gita 9.13 mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ bhajanty ananya-manaso jñātvā bhūtādim avyayam The great souls take shelter in nature divine, With [...]
Your seeming humanity doesn’t diminish your divinity—it deepens your lovability
Bhagavad Gita 9.11 avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśvaram Fools mock me, seeing but a human-like manifestation, Not knowing [...]
You are the God of miracles—and the God of practicals
Bhagavad Gita 9.10 mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram hetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate "Under my supervision, nature unfolds, Through everything moving and nonmoving, my control still [...]
In the world’s distress, let me see not your disregard for my well-being, but your respect for my will
Bhagavad Gita 9.9 na ca māṁ tāni karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañ-jaya udāsīna-vad āsīnam asaktaṁ teṣu karmasu By none of the world’s mess or distress, Am [...]
Two ways to deal with our past
Even if we can't escape our past, we can still outgrow it We all carry scars from our past—deep wounds that cause fears or impressions [...]
2.56 When life is unsteady, how to stay steady
Life often subjects us to dualities: success-failure, honor-dishonor, pleasure-pain. Due to such dualities, we may keep swinging between emotional highs and lows. Our moodiness makes [...]
5.20 How equanimity empowers amid both failure and success
Do you know people who are prone to emotional extremes: elation in gain and dejection in loss? Success gets to their heads; failure buries them [...]
3.30 Be independent of externals, not indifferent to them
Some people mistake the Gita’s teaching on equanimity— thinking it means not caring about externals. But look at Arjuna, the Gita’s original student: he [...]
2.10 Don’t repress or suppress emotions—process them
When we try to control emotions, we often adopt two unhealthy approaches: suppression or repression. They sound similar, but they’re very different. Suppression is conscious— [...]
14.11 Emotion as path to education
To process emotions, we need to begin by understanding why we feel what we feel. Whenwe don’t understand the cause of an emotion, our attention [...]