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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 05

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  • Chapter 05, Text 01
    • Gita 5.1 explained
    • Arjuna’s repeated question (Exploring the Gita chapter 5 series - 1)
    • When clarification causes confusion, the culprit is pre-conception
  • Chapter 05, Text 02
    • Gita 5.2 explained
    • Seeming scriptural contradictions are counterbalances, not counters
  • Chapter 05, Text 04
    • Let your compassion not become the cause of my confusion
    • Gita 5.4 explained
    • How Krishna’s teachings reflect both unity and diversity (Exploring the Gita chapter 5 series - 4)
    • The different yogas are essentially similar with minor dissimilarities, not essentially dissimilar with minor similarities
  • Chapter 05, Text 05
    • Becoming attached to our plans makes us unproductive
    • How NOT to plan for our future
    • Seeing Krishna's Plan
    • Gita 5.5 explained
    • See beyond divergent ideas to convergent ideals
  • Chapter 05, Text 06
    • Gita 5.6 explained
    • When matter and spirit need to be differentiated — and when not
    • The monkey may not be on our back, but it is inside our head
    • Without devotion, renunciation comes painfully; with devotion, even liberation comes joyfully
  • Chapter 05, Text 09
    • Gita 5.9 explained
    • The body reacts mechanically - don’t take its reactions personally
  • Chapter 05, Text 10
    • Help me, my Lord, to stay engaged without being entangled
    • Gita 5.10 explained
    • How does detachment prevent entanglement?
    • What we need to give up is not material life but the materialistic conception of life
    • Those who can get on without matter can get on best with it
    • Rise from touch-me-not to touched-me-not
  • Chapter 05, Text 11
    • My senses can’t pollute me as much as you can purify me
    • Gita 5.11 explained
    • Don’t work for or against the body - work with it for Krishna
    • Desires go away not by gratification or repression but by purification
    • Constancy of purpose often necessitates change of strategy
    • The purpose of service is not productivity or popularity but purity
    • Purity transforms the roads to misery into the roads to ecstasy
    • The balance between “matter alone matters” and “matter doesn’t matter”
  • Chapter 05, Text 12
    • Peace comes by inner absorption, not by outer domination
    • Gita 5.12 explained
    • Learn to see material attachments as negative equity
  • Chapter 05, Text 13
    • Help me see my body as my locality, not as my identity
    • Gita 5.13 explained
    • We have to sit in the city of nine gates, but we don’t have to be stuck in it
  • Chapter 05, Text 15
    • You are always my inner deliverer, never my inner destroyer
    • Gita 5.15 explained
    • Don’t ascribe to God’s will that which happens due to free will or evil
    • God is the cause of all causes, but not the cause of all effects
    • Don’t blame ignorantly – blame ignorance
  • Chapter 05, Text 16
    • Gita 5.16 explained
    • Dealing with the fog of emotions
    • We can’t drive out darkness, but we can turn on the light
    • Externals provide survival value, but internals provide value to survival
    • The inner light reveals the worst within – and the best within
  • Chapter 05, Text 17
    • Let all the streams of my consciousness flow toward you
    • Gita 5.17 explained
    • Don’t let etiology distract from therapy
  • Chapter 05, Text 18
    • Help me see others as they are spiritually
    • Gita 5.18 explained
    • What does equal vision mean for Arjuna on the battlefield
    • How can Arjuna see everyone equally and still fight? (Exploring the Gita chapter 5 series - 2)
    • Are we using our knowledge to build a path or a pedestal?
    • Equality that is imposed leads inevitably to inequality
    • Ritualists see hierarchy above equality spiritualists see equality above hierarchy
    • Our longing for equality points to our spirituality
    • Go beyond two equalities to true equality
    • Those who judge a horse by its harness can’t harness its potential
    • Gita wisdom frees humanity from speciesism
  • Chapter 05, Text 19
    • Gita 5.19 explained
    • The essence of liberation is not transportation but transformation
    • Happiness comes from sameness - the balance between oneness and otherness
  • Chapter 05, Text 20
    • Help me be spiritually dedicated, not materially diverted
    • Overcoming distractions by aligning with our spiritual essence
    • Does God know our pain?
    • How to see failure positively
    • Gita 5.20 explained
    • How can we situate ourselves in our spiritual identity?
    • When life seems to say ‘no’ to us
    • Becoming emotionally sober
    • How can we redefine our relationship with failure
    • How to stop struggling with our feelings?
    • Go beyond both negative thinking and positive thinking
    • How to cultivate equanimity?
    • There is a purpose for everything we experience, even the things we don't want to experience
    • Pleasure and pain are both life’s ringtones - don’t keep hearing the tone start picking up the phone
    • Chemical highs can’t cure life’s lows we need to go spiritually high
    • Comparing is unavoidable but comparing mentality is undesirable
    • Don’t run from pain or rush towards pleasure – refocus on your purpose
    • Failure is a bump on the road not the end of the road
    • See failure as a practical problem, not as an existential problem
    • Focus not on the pain of failing - focus on the pleasure of learning
    • Animals choose how to fulfill their bodily drives; we humans can choose whether to fulfill our bodily drives
    • Even if we can’t change the content of our experience, we can change its context
    • Failure is not catastrophic – to see failure as catastrophic is catastrophic
    • Our over-reactions reveal our sore spots
    • Treat life like a movie that you don’t have to always watch
    • Transcend duality by absorption in a reality higher than duality
    • The biggest battle in life is to keep the biggest battle the biggest battle
    • No problem is so dreadful and no pleasure is so wonderful that it is worth losing our inner connection with Krishna
    • When life makes us emotionally seasick…
  • Chapter 05, Text 21
    • Now is my chance to access spiritual happiness
    • What provides happiness - & what doesn’t
    • Gita 5.21 explained
    • Beyond reductionist notions of spirituality
    • How to feel grateful when we are not successful
    • Why our determination falters when faced with temptation
    • The more we consider others’ need the more we can free ourselves from our greed
    • Happiness is found not in collecting and consuming, but in connecting and contributing
    • Our loudest desires won’t lead us to happiness – our deepest desires will
    • Turning away is not running away if we are turning toward something better
    • Fulfilling our every desire won’t make us happy focusing on our most important desire will
    • Happiness is not a product of gratification it is a by product of dedication
    • Happiness is found not in sensation but in absorption
    • Subtler joys aren’t smaller – they are just softer
    • Crave not for what lies outside the fence - cultivate what lies inside it
    • External success may be a zero-sum game, but internal success isn’t
    • Seek not the mirage of sensual titillation – seek the ocean of spiritual satisfaction
    • To overcome desires, outgrow them
    • Why look at a mirage when heading to the oasis?
    • See sense gratification as spiritual deprivation 
    • Those who give up pleasure for principle gain life's principal pleasure
    • What comes fast doesn’t last; what does last doesn’t come fast
    • Disdain the pain that is a pain to miss
    • Are our desires locking us into a world of frustration or releasing us into the world of fulfillment?
    • The road that turns into a roadblock
    • We can’t reach new planets without leaving the earth
    • Do others have to pay for our enjoyment?
    • Happiness through a perpetual tickling machine?
    • Don’t let your assumptions about happiness deprive you of happiness
    • Renunciation is super-ambitious, not un-ambitious
    • To give up the ocean for a drop is a rank bad bargain
    • Self-denial opens the door to self-fulfillment
  • Chapter 05, Text 22
    • Help me see the huge price I pay for a tiny pleasure
    • What’s wrong with the worldview of desire?
    • Gita 5.22 explained
    • Obscenity is objectionable not because it shows too much of a person, but because it shows too little and obsesses people with the too little
    • If conscience doesn’t create a barrier between impulse and indulgence, intelligence must
    • Intelligence shows how indulgence is harmful and how harmful indulgence is
    • Sensual pleasure is too fleeting to be fulfilling
    • Sensual pleasure ends, but it doesn’t end with pleasure
    • The mind issues checks that the body can’t cash
    • Education is needed not just to fulfill our desires, but also to know which desires to fulfill
    • Seek more than sense pleasure, not more sense pleasure
    • The way of the body is the way of limitation and tribulation
    • Be not eager for the meager
    • Why long for a pleasure that never stays for long?
    • Scripture ends the hush-hush around the failed project of sense enjoyment
    • The search for happiness is often the source of the greatest unhappiness
    • When conviction is weak, determination can’t be strong 
    • What is a source of trouble for the possessor can’t be the source of pleasure for the beholder
    • Don’t pander; ponder
    • See the pleasure that ends in trouble as trouble, not pleasure
    • Those who check the urge to mate avoid checkmate
    • What is natural is not always desirable; what is desirable is not always natural
    • The body is a visa to pleasure, not a passport
    • Are we mistaking the cause of torture to be the source of shelter?
    • The false currency that keeps us trading in the stock exchange of illusion
    • Are we mistaking the red signal to be the green signal?
    • The heaven that turns out to be hell
    • Long in shadow, short in substance
    • Be restrained to avoid being strained
    • Go down the consequence lane of memory to go up the devotion lane of life
    • Let’s keep our intelligence FIT
    • Be not allured by the pleasure that is pregnant with suffering
  • Chapter 05, Text 23
    • Help me tolerate the desires that are just my body’s reactions
    • Why we are NOT defined by our desires
    • Gita 5.23 explained
    • When we can’t give up an unhealthy habit …
    • Why we may relapse into unhealthy behaviors
    • What temptation can do — and what it can’t
    • How to avoid unhealthy reactions to unwanted emotions
    • Do bad thoughts comprise bad karma?
    • Why we need to scan our consciousness regularly
    • Even if we can't drive away inner impurities, we can still drive away from inner impurities
    • Even if we can’t stop feeling sensual urges we can stop feeding sensual urges
    • We don’t have to outweigh our urges; we just have to out-wait them
    • When we resist our urges, they may become scarier, but they don’t become stronger
    • If we think we have no vices we are novices
    • We can’t always control how we feel, but we can control how we act
    • Even if we can’t change our desires, we can change our attitude towards our desires
    • Resist the temptation to expect immediate resistance to temptation
    • In the spiritual race, if we strive to be finishers, we will be winners too
    • The test of spirituality is not absence of temptation but persistence amidst temptation
    • See temptation as an attack, not as a defeat
    • Our greatest power is not the power we have over others, but the power we have over ourselves
    • Sex is a bodily function – letting it become a mental obsession is illusion
    • See anger as a sign of weakness, not strength
    • Eventual defeat doesn’t justify immediate defeat
    • Don’t expect illusion to get out — you get out
    • We don’t have to defeat our lower desires – we can just let them lose
    • Victory comes not just by courageously fighting our battles but also by cautiously choosing our battles
    • Tolerance means withstanding the presence without succumbing to the influence
    • Temptations will come, we don’t have to welcome
    • As long as we mistake the irresistible to be essential, we deprive ourselves of the essential
    • Pass the test, get the taste
    • The way to transcendence is through tolerance not indulgence
    • Don’t let inner burdens add to your outer burdens
    • The war against lust is a war of attrition
    • Surrender to Krishna is difficult, but surrender to the body is doomed
    • Tolerance is the stopper between temptation and transgression
  • Chapter 05, Text 24
    • Gita 5.24 explained
    • The heart that delights in the ephemeral can’t delve into the eternal
    • Don’t let the small picture blind you to the big picture
    • Materialism centers on gaining; spirituality centers on regaining
  • Chapter 05, Text 25
    • Gita 5.25 explained
    • When helping others is compassion and when it isn’t ...
    • Be not self-seeking be seekers of the self
    • Social activism is the byproduct of spiritual activism, not its purpose
    • The more we are responsible for others, the more we need to be responsible for ourselves
    • Are we like doctors who give medicines to everyone except themselves?
  • Chapter 05, Text 26
    • Gita 05.26 explained
    • Don’t let self-control fuel the illusion of the self as the controller
    • The greatest danger is the danger of forgetting the danger
  • Chapter 05, Text 27
    • Gita 5.27 explained
    • The concentration-point is not the point of concentration
  • Chapter 05, Text 29
    • Let your position and disposition inspire my devotion
    • How we can know peace even in a world that knows no peace
    • Are we treating God like a problem-solving machine?
    • Accepting that some things are beyond our understanding
    • When things are unsettled
    • Peace for a bigger war or war for a bigger peace?
    • How bhakti helps us balance destiny and responsibility
    • Gita 5.29 explained
    • The renunciation that is necessary for devotion
    • From renouncing possession to renouncing illusion
    • From what’s on loan to what’s our own
    • Why a message of peace on a battlefield? (Exploring the Gita chapter 5 series - 3)
    • What does remembering God mean practically?
    • Begin each day by putting on our armor
    • Are you trying to be peaceful or purposeful?
    • Humility empowers when certainty doesn’t
    • To free yourself from the burden of self-consciousness, become conscious of a purpose bigger than the self
    • Don’t just work on our conditionings – work with our conditionings
    • Our greatest weakness is our unwillingness to believe in Krishna’s love for us
    • The best way to control our thoughts is to direct them towards the one who is always in control
    • We may be unloved, but we are never unlovable
    • Whenever things seem to fall apart, remember when things have fallen in place
    • Happiness comes not by making money, but by making something worthwhile with money
    • Refuel your love tank with bhakti
    • Focus not on God’s rules – focus on his purpose
    • Revelation is the foundation for the ultimate revolution
    • Krishna’s love for us is based not on who we are, but on who he is
    • Social media is no substitute for spiritual media
    • Life may not be logical but it is teleological
    • Krishna is the best enjoyer – and the best source of enjoyment
    • Krishna may be beyond our reach, but we are not beyond his reach
    • Don't romanticize or demonize; utilize and realize
    • View the world as an object for reciprocation, not recreation or rejection
    • Krishna’s ways may not always be pleasant, but they are always benevolent

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