- Chapter 10, Text 01
- Chapter 10, Text 02
- Chapter 10, Text 03
- Chapter 10, Text 04-05
- Chapter 10, Text 06
- Gita 10.06 explained
- Gita 11.06 explained
- The Lord does not belong to any dynasty; all dynasties belong to him
- Chapter 10, Text 07
- Gita 10.07 explained
- To trust God means to trust that he can run the world without us
- Krishna is the source, shelter and summit of everything
- Chapter 10, Text 08
- Gita 10.08 explained
- Would an infinite causal chain rule God out?
- How devotion balances the head and the heart (Chatur-Shloki analysis 3)
- The impact of knowing about God (Chatur Shloki Gita analysis 2)
- Defining and identifying the ultimate reality (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 1)
- What does it mean to know Krishna?
- Be in Krishna consciousness, not around it
- How everything came from nothing is not explained by italicizing nothing
- Bhakti is not just a choice of the head – it is also the calling of the heart
- Thinking about Krishna is not just redirection of thought but also redefinition of thinking
- Asking who made God is like trying to draw a square circle
- Reason is confounded not by faith, but by faithlessness
- There is no reason for reason without a transcendental source of reason
- The notion that bhakti is for the less intelligent is less intelligent
- Krishna speaks about his glories not to prove his position but to improve our disposition
- Bring the momentum of emotion into the moment of meditation
- Krishna is not just God; he is my God
- Contemplation on Krishna brings illumination
- The Gita shows the Route to the Root
- Knowledge about Krishna is not for pooling, but for pulling
- Chapter 10, Text 09
- The Journey from effortful remembrance to divine absorption
- Meditation & life - compartmentalized or integrated
- Gita 10.09 explained
- How Gita study both has an end and is endless
- How devotion encompasses our entire being (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 9)
- Why speech matters so much in devotion (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 6)
- Devotion is seen through dedication (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 5)
- Devotion changes our inner home (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 4)
- How God's love is both universal and particular
- The endless end of knowledge
- Are scriptural descriptions of Krishna literal?
- What makes relationships unsteady — and how to make them steady?
- How to get insights?
- Associate with the saintly to upload their spiritual positivity, not download our mental negativity
- When the supreme soul is glorified, the small soul is purified
- Association works, but making it work is our responsibility
- Spiritual learning culminates not just in learning about Krishna but in learning to keep learning about Krishna
- The world can crowd Krishna out of our heart – and so can the mind
- Glorification of the One brings the unification, elevation and satisfaction of the many
- Socialization should be a spur for spiritualization, not a substitute for it
- We need mentors who understand our mind and who can help us understand our mind
- Those who don’t hang together, hang separately
- Krishna’s glories enlighten even the enlightened
- Enlightenment is not a static state; it is a perennial process
- Choose the collective that is corrective, not disruptive
- When the world has got so much from us, why should Krishna get less?
- Are we bandaging an infected wound without cleaning it?
- Place Krishna at the center of your secret life
- Happiness is always a byproduct, never a product
- “Live for the moment?” But the moment doesn’t live for you
- Chapter 10, Text 10
- How humility empowers amid difficulties
- Gita 10.10 explained
- How devotion leads to dynamic intelligence (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 11)
- Why our mood matters in our bhakti practice (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 10)
- Chatur-Shloki Gita illustrated in the Krishna-Arjuna relationship (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 8)
- Chatur-Shloki Summarized in terms of reciprocation (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 7)
- Three ways remembering Krishna empowers us to face problems
- Whose place are we seeking in devotion: ours or someone else’s?
- Why we prefer outer news to inner news?
- Even though we have more enemies than we realize, we also have more friends than we realize
- If we are tormented by strong conscience and weak willpower, the solution is strengthening willpower, not weakening conscience
- Experience becomes our best teacher when we experience the Best Teacher
- Praying to get our need fulfilled isn’t our need – praying is our need
- To get Krishna, get absorbed in Krishna
- Choosing Krishna is the one choice that empowers us to make better choices
- Recollection is a function of conception
- When God wants to speak to you, don’t let your mind give him the busy signal
- Love doesn’t have to come in the way – love can be the way
- The heart is a nursery, not a factory
- Faith means to take one step towards Krishna even when the whole path isn’t clear
- Seeking God’s will in his word shows us our way in this world
- The heart of wisdom is attained by the wisdom of the heart
- Bhakti bestows the intelligence for tolerance and the taste for transcendence
- Krishna is not just the object for meditation but also the subject for reciprocation
- When we demand Krishna’s protection on our terms, we deprive ourselves of his best protection
- Might my own thing not be my own thing?
- To hear Krishna accurately, first hear about Krishna attentively
- Let adversity pave the way to the discovery of real prosperity
- Be intelligent enough to know what to do when you don’t know what to do
- Love is the ultimate knowledge – and is the way to the ultimate knowledge
- Invest emotion to relish transformation
- Transform disappointment into his-appointment
- Find the balance between fidelity and flexibility by sincerity
- Bhakti offers emotional liquidity that is above, not below, intellectual solidity
- Buddhi-yoga comprises both the eyes and the wings for our spiritual flight
- Transform pains and strains into gains
- Chapter 10, Text 11
- God is watching us
- Gita 10.11 explained
- 10.11 How knowledge relates with devotion (Chatur-Shloki Gita analysis 13)
- 10.11 How knowledge manifests in devotion (Chatur Shloki Gita analysis 12)
- Three practical benefits of remembering Krishna
- God can transform flashlights into floodlights, just stay in his light
- The devoted shine like sapphire when they go through the sadhana fire
- Don’t just take in the diagnosis – take the prescription too
- Just because we can’t light the world doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t light our corner of the world
- Devotion makes the head clear and the heart pure
- Bhakti redefines desires as doorways to the divine
- See Krishna’s mercy not just in devotional flights but also in philosophical insights
- Krishna lights the world without and the world within
- The illumination of devotion is the best protection from illusion
- Ignite the light that makes the inner world bright and right
- Devotional service is the arena to become lost and found
- Mirrors make us self-conscious; the Gita makes us conscious of the self
- The Light that brings Lightness
- Chapter 10, Text 12
- How Arjuna is much more than a student in the Gita
- Why Arjuna’s declaration of Krishna’s position is significant
- The gods are facilitators of our devotion, not competitors for our devotion
- Faith generated by miracles is not as consequential as the miracle generated by faith
- Chapter 10, Text 12-13
- Chapter 10, Text 13
- Chapter 10, Text 14
- Gita 10.14 explained
- Don’t confuse “I can’t know” with “I don’t know”
- Progress from questioning to understanding by patient hearing
- Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting
- Is spiritual shopping taking the place of spiritual seeking?
- To equate the shadow of scripture with its light is to shadow scripture
- See eye-to-eye with Krishna to gain an enlightened eye and an enlivened I
- Chapter 10, Text 15
- Gita 10.15 explained
- How can we know Arjuna’s understanding of Krishna’s position?
- God outgrows every frame through which we see him
- Cosmic administration is like a country’s administration, not a continent’s
- God’s infinitude makes him not unknowable, but inexhaustible
- Chapter 10, Text 16
- Chapter 10, Text 17
- Gita 10.17 explained
- Why does Arjuna refer to Krishna as a yogi?
- What the Gita’s questions tell us about Arjuna as a student
- Curiosity is for knowledge what hunger is for food
- “God did it” is not necessarily a curiosity-stopper; it can be a curiosity-stimulator
- Recollection is a function of connection
- Don’t just be mindful – make the mind full of Krishna
- Bhakti redefines desires as doorways to the divine
- Chapter 10, Text 18
- Gita 10.18 explained
- What Arjuna’s eagerness to hear about Krishna signifies
- Does the quest for knowledge have an end? (From ignorance to knowledge series 7)
- Transcendence means to go beyond testing Krishna to tasting Krishna
- Longing is the test of taste
- The perfection of devotional learning is not just learning but also learning to keep learning
- Celebrate the commotion of emotion in the ocean of devotion
- The goal of spiritual knowledge is not just discovery but also recovery
- The Bhagavad-gita is infinitely pregnant with wisdom
- An eternity of daytime television?
- Don’t miss the feast of the heart because of the lethargy of the mind
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- Chapter 10, Text 25
- Gita 10.25 explained
- The essence of the fire-sacrifice is not lighting a fire without but lighting the fire within
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- Chapter 10, Text 33
- Gita 10.33 explained
- God is not a being who exists in time – he is the being because of whom time exists
- Time expresses Krishna’s tough love
- Chapter 10, Text 34
- Changes that happen over time can't be accelerated by working over time
- Slowing down to go faster
- Gita 10.34 explained
- Spiritual progress is not all-or-nothing; material progress is all-for-nothing
- Life is a disaster movie in slow motion
- When the immediate encroaches repeatedly on the ultimate, we need an immediate reality check
- Chapter 10, Text 35
- Chapter 10, Text 36
- Chapter 10, Text 37
- Gita 10.37 explained
- Why Krishna mentions Arjuna as his vibhuti among the Pandavas
- What Krishna’s “I am …” declarations mean and don’t mean
- God acts through us and beyond us – and always for us
- Chapter 10, Text 38
- Chapter 10, Text 39
- Gita 10.39 explained
- We are already in God’s embrace
- Atheism claims to reject God, but only replaces him
- The world is not the benchmark of reality – Krishna is
- People may worship one God, but they don’t necessarily worship the same God
- God is not like an undiscovered satellite around Jupiter
- Asking whether God exists is like asking whether a circle is circular
- God is not just the best among all beings – he is the basis of all being
- God’s existence is a matter of not mathematical probability, but of definitional necessity
- God is the answer before all questions
- The existence of Krishna is the necessity for the existence of anything else
- Chapter 10, Text 40
- Miracles are not against science
- Gita 10.40 explained
- To make a principle out of absence is to perpetuate the absence
- Study the Gita not to inform the head, but to transform the heart
- Chapter 10, Text 41
- Bhakti is a journey through physical reality to spiritual reality
- Gita 10.41 explained
- Four levels of gratitude
- How can we admire without craving to acquire?
- Why does Krishna speak his own glories?
- How is human desire connected with divine desire (Desire management series 11)
- When scripture seems unbelievable ...
- How to feel grateful when life gets tough?
- How to direct our desires constructively?
- Desire — curbed or cured?
- Whatever we are surfing for, we are ultimately surfing for Krishna
- The world points to Krishna and often misses the point of Krishna
- When the Infinite is discovered, the infinitesimal is uncovered
- Krishna is the supplier of desires, the supplier of desirables and the supreme desirable
- What we look for in the world is not to be found in the world
- Let the barrier of temptation become the bridge to devotion
- Craving can’t be curbed, but cravings can be cured
- Spiritual vision is meant for deepening our experience of reality, not denying it
- Study matter for deconstruction, edification, redirection and utilization
- Whatever we feel we need, we need Krishna
- Be too intelligent to fall for the hero business
- All glory originates and culminates in Krishna
- Become conscious of Krishna in whatever makes you unconscious of Krishna
- Krishna is the source, shelter and summit of everything
- Devotion defangs and domesticates our desires
- Even arguments against design require design
- AIM for Krishna to attain the ultimate absorption
- The road from beauty to reality can be seen only by purity
- Envy is degrading; esteem is ennobling
- The point of the world is to point beyond the world
- Krishna is better than the best that the world can offer
- Krishna is Krishna’s best blessing
- The truth of beauty, the beauty of truth
- Worldly beauty agitates, dissatisfies, pollutes; Krishna’s beauty pacifies, satisfies, cleanses
- “So much, O Krishna, do I long for you”
- Our heart deserves more than a consolation prize
- Grasp the sense, the nonsense and the trans-sense of worldly mania
- Devotion protects us from destruction by distraction
- Chapter 10, Text 42
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