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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
5.13 How to let go of emotions
Once we understand why an emotion arose,we may realize the situation didn’t warrant it—or at least not with such intensity.Maybe the person who seemed to [...]
12.18 How to express emotion effectively
When we process an emotion, we may discover it has a genuine cause. If we felt enraged by someone’s behavior, perhaps they were actually disrespectful— [...]
13.2 Everything That Happens Is God-Filtered
When something terrible happens, do you ever wonder— Did God really want this to happen? Nothing happens outside his loving plan. Every event is [...]
12.15 Why someone you love hurts you — 3 reasons
When a loved one hurts us, the pain cuts deep. To make sense of their actions, consider three possibilities: they may be heartless, thoughtless, [...]
2.24 How to deal with despair
Have you ever felt so low that you thought, “Nothing I do will change anything”? Fight that thought. Are you really powerless? Can you not [...]
3.20 The one key to satisfaction
When a company collapses—or when a person implodes— is there a common denominator behind it all? The triggers may differ, but one pattern runs [...]
2.23 How to face failure
Suppose you fail—and fail when everyone sees it. You may feel like disappearing, running not just from that place, but from yourself. Unfortunately, you [...]
Gita 06.43 – Explanation
Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-43-spiritual-inclination-is-the-credit-that-carries-over-beyond-the-corpse/ tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam yatate ca tato [...]
Gita 06.42 – Explanation
Gita 06.42 – Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-42-having-past-spiritual-impressions-reinforced-in-a-present-life-is-extremely-fortunate/ atha vā yoginām eva kule bhavati dhīmatām [...]
Gita 06.41 – Explanation
Gita 06.41 – The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-41-the-deviated-yogi-loses-neither-materially-nor-spiritually/ prāpya puṇya-kṛtāṁ lokān uṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe yoga-bhraṣṭo ’bhijāyate [...]
Gita 06.40 – Explanation
Gita 06.40 – Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-40-krishna-reveals-how-an-apparently-lose-lose-situation-is-actually-win-win/ śrī-bhagavān uvāca pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśas tasya vidyate na [...]
Gita 06.39 – Explanation
Gita 06.39 – Doubts are natural due to our limitedness – seek the unlimited Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-39-doubts-are-natural-due-to-our-limitedness-seek-the-unlimited/ etan me saṁśayaṁ kṛṣṇa chettum arhasy aśeṣataḥ tvad-anyaḥ [...]
Gita 06.38 – Explanation
Gita 06.38 – The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-38-the-problems-we-perceive-reflect-our-level-of-consciousness/ kaccin nobhaya-vibhraṣṭaś chinnābhram iva naśyati apratiṣṭho mahā-bāho vimūḍho brahmaṇaḥ pathi [...]