- Chapter 12, Text 01
- Gita 12.01 explained
- How the thread of a loveable God links the Gita’s eleventh and twelfth chapters
- Chapter 12, Text 02
- Gita 12.02 explained
- Closeness unites more than oneness
- Infatuation with form is not the problem – infatuation with temporary form is
- Chapter 12, Text 03-04
- Chapter 12, Text 04
- The impersonal stereotype of impersonalists militates against personlism
- The enlightened vision and the benevolent disposition
- Chapter 12, Text 05
- Gita 12.05 explained
- Don’t just push the mind towards the spiritual – let the spiritual pull the mind too
- Impersonalism perpetuates the padlock on the heart
- Chapter 12, Text 06
- Chapter 12, Text 06-07
- Chapter 12, Text 07
- What Krishna’s promise of deliverance means for Arjuna
- How can we reach God?
- Sensual hope deludes spiritual hope delivers
- Immigration to the spiritual world happens not by infiltration but by invitation
- Seek not to grasp God – seek to be grasped by God
- Krishna is not a passive point of concentration – he is the proactive fount of compassion
- Don’t come up with the truth; come up to the truth
- If we hold on to Krishna long enough, nothing else will hold on to us long enough
- Rise from defiance through reliance to transcendence
- Are we holding on to a straw instead of a lifeline?
- Go beyond the beyond
- Change the stories you tell yourself about yourself
- Chapter 12, Text 08
- Krishna is present in the present
- What does taking shelter of Krishna mean?
- Gita 12.08 explained
- The appreciation we get for our service is not as consequential as the absorption we get in our service
- When we become at home in Krishna, we go home to Krishna
- The kingdom of God is more than a kingdom
- Live for Krishna; live through Krishna; live in Krishna
- The happiness of devotion is not a destination but an eternal progression
- Chapter 12, Text 08-10
- Chapter 12, Text 08-12
- Chapter 12, Text 09
- Three characteristics each of spontaneous remembrance and conscientious remembrance
- Two levels for focusing the fickle mind on Krishna
- Gita 12.09 explained
- Through discipline to the stage beyond discipline
- What’s wrong with desirelessness? — Desire management series 6
- How desire is both the lock and the key — Desire Management series 5
- How remembrance of Krishna is the ultimate spiritual superfood
- Two ways to gauge our devotion
- How to see desire as a blessing not as a burden?
- What happens to our desires when we become enlightened?
- Is our body fast becoming an ego feast?
- The test of success in bhakti is taste for bhakti
- Devotion is not just emotion – it is conscious continuous cultivation
- Even if we can’t be transfixed, we can still be fixed
- To tune out the mind, tune in to Krishna
- Bhakti practice leads to attraction to Krishna through repetition, purification and revelation
- Bhakti-yoga takes our relationship with Krishna from familiarity to comfort to desire to need
- Obsession isn’t just a distractor from absorption; it is also a demonstrator of absorption
- Bhakti has to be a choice before it can become a calling
- For getting Krishna, forgetting Krishna is fatal
- Contemplation is the natural result of attraction and contemplation naturally results in attraction
- Catch the current of emotion – don’t be caught by it
- We need a starter of desire more than a stopper of desire
- There’s more to devotion than rules, not less
- The fruit of meditation is taste for meditation
- Anticipate spontaneous devotion, but cultivate conscientious devotion
- Aspire not for feelings but for relationship
- Map changes – and change maps
- Feeling is a springboard for chanting, but chanting is also a gateway to feeling
- Chapter 12, Text 09-10
- Chapter 12, Text 10
- Gita 12.10 explained
- To have fixity in purpose we need flexibility in pace
- Dedicate your external to the eternal internal, not the ephemeral internal
- If we can’t offer our heart to Krishna, then we can offer what’s in our heart to Krishna
- Krishna wants our presence more than our presents
- Chapter 12, Text 11
- Gita 12.11 explained
- Gita 12.12 explained
- How Krishna is understanding not demanding
- How elevating and expanding of consciousness are dissimilar and similar
- Krishna accommodates even those who can’t accommodate him
- Chapter 12, Text 12
- Chapter 12, Text 13
- Offering love of God to both sides while mediating a conflict
- Might we be fanatics?
- What differentiates spiritualists from fanatics? — 2
- What differentiates spiritualists from fanatics? — 1
- Why we need to forgive ourselves
- Be childlike, not childish
- Love first the creator to love best the creatures
- Be not sentimental or judgmental – be transcendental
- Seek not scapegoats; seek not to become martyrs – seek to stay as servants
- Cherish compassion not just as a position or an emotion, but as a foundation
- Devotional culture sets us free from our emotional cocoons
- Let’s love Krishna too much to be fanatical
- Love that is too big to allow room for hatred in the heart
- Be grateful for everything we can live without
- Are we praying for others or preying on others?
- Loving as much as our heart longs
- Chapter 12, Text 13-14
- Chapter 12, Text 14
- Cut people or cut people some slack?
- Connection comes best by a combination of commitment and contentment
- Let dissatisfaction propel us vertically, not horizontally
- Chapter 12, Text 15
- Emotional intelligence: Knowing when to respond with equanimity and when with empathy
- The balance of predictability and unpredictability that makes relationships fulfilling
- When orthodoxy overrides morality decency humanity
- Whom NOT to turn to for processing our emotions
- Surviving the earthquake drowning in the tsunami — why suppressing emotions is dangerous
- Gita 12.15 explained
- Should we speak about our spiritual practices with our colleagues?
- Does devotion automatically lead to ethical growth? (Ethics & devotion series 3)
- When people pigeonhole us ...
- Gita wisdom is explicitly descriptive and implicitly prescriptive
- Chapter 12, Text 16
- Gita 12.16 explained
- Renunciation is not a function of frustration – it is a fruit of realization
- Devotees left with nothing are right with Krishna
- Be adept to adopt and adapt
- Chapter 12, Text 17
- Feeling unsettled: Good or bad?
- Gita 12.17 explained
- Krishna is the stabilizer of material emotions and the stimulator of spiritual emotions
- See love in the expression of emotions – and in the concealing of emotions too
- The Gita calls for not emotionless living, but purposeful living
- Devotion is the emotion that takes us beyond all other emotions
- Chapter 12, Text 18-19
- Gita 12.18-19 explained
- Why is Krishna’s description of devotion so unemotional?
- Bad times test our faith – and so do good times
- Chapter 12, Text 19
- Our satisfaction is determined more by the location of our consciousness than the location of our house
- Don’t treat others as a waste-basket for your words
- Cultivate a tender heart, but cover it with a thick skin
- Make God the center and the circumference of your life
- Change the home page of your mind’s browser
- The spiritual may be unfamiliar but it’s not unnatural
- Belonging that leads to blissful being
- Spirituality provides us our own inner sanctuary
- Devotion kindles an inner drive that is beyond jeers and cheers
- What is the Home of Our Thoughts?
- Chapter 12, Text 20
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