Two levels for focusing the fickle mind on Krishna
Two levels for focusing the fickle mind on Krishna - Even if we can't keep our mind in Krishna through absorption, we can still keep [...]
Three differences between educational warnings about danger and fear-mongering
Three differences between educational warnings about danger and fear-mongering - Fear is one of the most common and widespread human experiences. We live in a [...]
Why our feelings are not our failings
Why our feelings are not our failings- Our feelings are not our failings, but our failure to feel our feelings leads to our failings. When [...]
Two ways to know that our actions are aligned with our God-given nature
Two ways to know that our actions are aligned with our God-given nature - What should I be doing with my life? This is a [...]
Gita 02.12 -Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
2.11-2.30: counters first argument – compassion – by Jnana BG 2.12 na tv evaham jatu nasam na tvam neme janadhipah na caiva na bhavishyamah [...]
3 tools for finding a purpose in our life
3 tools for finding a purpose in our life - When we go through life, it is easy to feel lost, not knowing what we [...]
When our mind doesn’t care for the things that matter to us
When our mind doesn’t care for the things that matter to us, we don’t have to stop caring for those things. We can choose to [...]
Even if we have to live with our mind we don’t have to live for our mind
Even if we have to live with our mind we don't have to live for our mind - We are stuck with our mind, but [...]
When the mind just doesn’t leave us alone…
We can force the world to leave us alone, but we can't force our mind to leave us alone. The key to mind management is [...]
Stick to your words, but don’t be stuck with your words
Intelligence means to know when to stick to our words and when to not stay stuck with our words. Our trustworthiness is determined, in the [...]
How Our Words Can Make Us Strangers To Others And Even To Ourselves
How Our Words Can Make Us Strangers To Others And Even To Ourselves - If we let our yes become no and our no become [...]
Does surrender necessitate checking the brain at the door of the house of God?
Does surrender necessitate checking the brain at the door of the house of God? - Surrender doesn't mean checking our brain at the door on [...]
How to counter the fickle mind with a stable intelligence
How to counter the fickle mind with a stable intelligence - Even if we can't stop our mind from being fickle, we can start making [...]
How ego blocks self-improvement and humility aids self-improvement
How ego blocks self-improvement and humility aids self-improvement - Humility can be an extremely empowering virtue, especially for self-improvement. This might seem counterintuitive because people [...]
Supervise vice or It Will Catch Us in a Super-Vise
Vice refers to the impure, dishonorable, and destructive desires within us that can lurk in the background, loom in the foreground, or leap into a [...]
A Moment of Thought to Evaluate the Thought of the Moment
We are constantly filled with thoughts, many of which pop up and then disappear without us paying much attention. This in itself is not a [...]
Are we connecting the dots or concocting the dots to connect?
Connecting the dots is a sign of perceptive intelligence, while creating the dots that can then be conveniently connected is a sign of deceptive intelligence. [...]
Understanding what pushes us toward transcendence and what pulls us toward transcendence
Intelligence means keeping accessible not just the factors that push us toward transcendence but also those that pull us. When we aspire to grow spiritually [...]
How desire abducts and abandons us
Desire abducts with the promise of pleasure and abandons us in the province of trouble. The Bhagavad Gita (18.38) states that sensual desires lead us [...]
Preventing the need for food from becoming greed for food
Detachment arises from understanding that desire can only be dealt with by tolerating it, never by titillating it. We all face sensual desires, and it [...]
What truth will our life story demonstrate?
We can choose what truth our life story will demonstrate: what is possible with God or what is inevitable without him. Our life is defined [...]