- Chapter 11
- Chapter 11, Text 01
- Gita 11.01 explained
- To understand that we can’t understand Krishna is the key to understanding him
- As a basis of faith, miracles may supplement, but not supplant, philosophy
- Chapter 11, Text 02
- Chapter 11, Text 03
- Chapter 11, Text 04
- Even if I lack purity, grant me humility (11.04)
- Gita 11.04 explained
- Pride demands and blames, humility begs and waits
- Chapter 11, Text 05
- Chapter 11, Text 07
- Chapter 11, Text 08
- Gita 11.08 explained
- Why does Krishna give Arjuna special eyes to see the universal form?
- The Gita complements verbal exposition with visual demonstration
- Bhakti renders the metaphysical physical and the physical metaphysical
- Chapter 11, Text 09
- Chapter 11, Text 10-11
- Chapter 11, Text 12
- Chapter 11, Text 13
- Chapter 11, Text 14
- Chapter 11, Text 15
- Chapter 11, Text 16
- Chapter 11, Text 17
- Chapter 11, Text 18
- Chapter 11, Text 19
- Chapter 11, Text 20
- Chapter 11, Text 21
- Chapter 11, Text 22
- Chapter 11, Text 24
- Chapter 11, Text 25
- Chapter 11, Text 26
- Chapter 11, Text 26-27
- Chapter 11, Text 28
- 3 tools for finding a purpose in our life
- Same metaphor opposite interpretations
- Think ocean think big
- Gita 11.28 explained
- How Krishna addresses Arjuna’s apprehensions about the death of Bhishma
- Chapter 11, Text 29
- Chapter 11, Text 30
- Gita 11.30 explained
- How the universal form demonstrates the Gita’s teaching
- Why is the universal form so ghastly?
- Chapter 11, Text 31
- Gita 11.31 explained
- Why does Arjuna ask Krishna about the identity of the revelation of the Universal Form?
- Chapter 11, Text 32
- Gita 11.32 explained
- Why does Krishna reveal his form as time?
- Our clock may stop, but time doesn’t - don’t waste time
- Time can be a fire in which we burn or a teacher from whom we learn
- Subtle time subtly causes colossal changes
- Be present in the present as the present is the present of the Supreme Presence
- Time makes the unpalatable unavoidable; Krishna makes the unavoidable palatable
- Take a sage look at time management
- The present is all that we have – and all that we will ever have
- Don’t let the ticking of the clock become tricking by the clock
- How History is His-story
- Chapter 11, Text 33
- Let me focus more on your purpose for me than your promise to me
- How bhakti is much more than worship of some being
- Stop trying to engineer a life of devotion
- The key to lasting confidence
- Gita 11.33 explained
- Slaying the enemy of self-doubt
- When discipline doesn’t seem worthwhile …
- Are we devaluing our life by overvaluing our autonomy?
- How to know if we are standing for God?
- To perceive God, we don't need any instrument; we only need to become his instrument
- Just because it's not up to you doesn't mean that you are not up to it
- What we achieve depends on not just how we strive but also on what we believe
- On some days, in some ways, we all can make a difference - provided we try
- Just because we can do the impossible doesn’t mean we can do everything
- Thinking about worldly things is not attachment being unable to stop thinking of them is
- Focus not on the wrongdoer; focus on the ultimate doer
- Krishna already has the result – what he seeks is our endeavor
- It takes courage to dream – and it takes courage to hand our dream over to Krishna
- It takes courage to dream - and it takes courage to hand our dream over to Krishna
- Just because the world is a place of misery doesn’t mean we have to accept atrocity
- Be single-minded, not single-geared
- Empowerment doesn’t mean absence of obstacles – it means perseverance amidst obstacles
- Let our confidence come from not who we are, but whose we are
- Consciousness of Krishna is not just passive contemplation – it is also active dedication
- Comprehension of scripture comes by absorption, not projection
- Set targets not so much to meet them as to meet Krishna through them
- God is not one cause among many causes – he is the one cause underlying the many causes
- We resolve conflicts best when we resolve the inner conflict first
- The cure for pride is not suppression of talent but purification of intent
- We need mountains to conquer ourselves - and bhakti offers us the best mountains
- After we win the battle, our real battle begins
- We are never too small to do a big service and never too big to do a small service
- Divine empowerment makes mission impossible mission unstoppable
- Chapter 11, Text 34
- Gita 11.34 explained
- Don't just speak philosophy – seek the purpose of philosophy
- If we do what we can, Krishna empowers us to do what we can’t
- Spirituality complements talent with temperament
- Chapter 11, Text 35
- Chapter 11, Text 36
- Chapter 11, Text 37
- Gita 11.37 explained
- Krishna is not a competitor vying for supremacy – he is constitutionally supreme
- Chapter 11, Text 38
- Chapter 11, Text 39
- Chapter 11, Text 40
- Gita 11.40 explained
- The only prayers offered by Arjuna to Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita
- Prayer is meant to act as a complement to prudent action not as a replacement
- The awe-inspiring mystery of God is to be venerated not penetrated
- Chapter 11, Text 41-42
- Chapter 11, Text 43
- Chapter 11, Text 44
- Chapter 11, Text 45
- Chapter 11, Text 46
- Chapter 11, Text 47
- Gita 11.47 explained
- What is unprecedented about Krishna’s revelation of the universal form to Arjuna
- Chapter 11, Text 48
- Chapter 11, Text 49
- Chapter 11, Text 50
- Chapter 11, Text 51
- Chapter 11, Text 52
- Gita 11.52 explained
- Which form of God is most special: universal form four-handed form or two-handed form?
- Devotion grants vision through a combination of perception and comprehension
- Don’t let propensity for immensity obscure the primacy of intimacy
- Chapter 11, Text 53
- Chapter 11, Text 54
- Gita 11.54 explained
- God is not a concept to be learnt – he is a person to be loved
- Bhakti-yoga transforms roadblocks to reality into roadways
- Krishna is beyond the range of the head, but not beyond the reach of the heart
- Chapter 11, Text 55
- Gita 11.55 explained
- The remarkable conclusion to the Gita chapter on the universal form
- What’s wrong with hating those who have wronged us (Beyond black and white conceptions series 3)
- Forgiveness shouldn’t enable atrocity; it should end animosity
- Trying to get even with others gets us at odds with ourselves
- We may have to fight against others but we don’t have to be against others
- Those who bow before the altar of hate can’t bow before the God of love
- Hate may be an unavoidable emotion, but hatefulness is an avoidable disposition
- The heaviest thing to hold is a grudge
- Life is meant to get back to Krishna, not to get back at others
- When we resent others, we drink poison and expect them to suffer
- Anger can be an expression of love – and so can be the determination to control anger
- Holding on to the Lord internally is more important than beholding him externally
- Krishna is not an optional filler in our life – he is its central purpose
- Chapter 11. Text 28
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