- Chapter 14, Text 01
- Chapter 14, Text 02
- Chapter 14, Text 03
- Chapter 14, Text 04
- Gita 14.04 explained
- Why gratitude is vital for bhakti
- Might nature be teaching us to stop believing that we humans alone matter on the earth?
- Liberalism can be as intolerant as the intolerance it opposes
- Chapter 14, Text 05
- Why people see the same thing differently
- Gita 14.05 explained
- Two ways the Gita refers to the modes of material nature
- Why Krishna devotes an entire chapter to the three modes
- Don’t be annoyed that people are so bad, be amazed that they aren’t worse
- In life’s multiple-choice exam, select an alternative based on what it says, not where it stays
- We are compelled to do as we choose to desire
- Chapter 14, Text 06
- Gita 14.06 explained
- Just because a wound is painless doesn’t mean it is harmless – even when we are not hurting, we still need healing
- Waking up within a dream is not the same as waking up from the dream
- Use the intelligence in Krishna’s service, not Krishna in the intelligence’s service
- The body, mind and soul are all best geared for meditation in the morning
- Guard against the vice of the wise
- Give your prime time to the highest bidder, not the loudest bidder
- Chapter 14, Text 07
- Chapter 14, Text 08
- Chapter 14, Text 09
- Chapter 14, Text 10
- A Gita lens on the Tariff War: Practicing C.A.R.
- Gita 14.10 explained
- How Krishna helps Arjuna make philosophical sense of his inner conflict
- Where do we draw the line that separates the good from the bad? (Beyond black and white conceptions series 7)
- How black and white conceptions disempower us (Beyond black and white conceptions series 1)
- Don’t reduce people to their group identity – differences within groups often exceed differences across groups
- The intellectual temptation for quick comprehension leads to erroneous generalization
- The modes determine the scope of our choices, not our specific choice
- False dichotomies keep us in real illusion
- Competing illusions are still illusions
- Go beyond indecision and indiscretion to introspection and inspiration
- Self-help can’t help without divine help
- Chapter 14, Text 11
- How to avoid acting thoughtlessly
- Navigating the inner marketplace
- Gita 14.11 explained
- Why it is difficult to be broad-minded
- Why we need to become consciousness-conscious
- Go beyond virtue signaling (Beyond black and white conceptions series 4)
- We can’t foresee every consequence of our actions but we can foresee their probable consequences — and we should
- If we don’t fix the broken doors to our consciousness, we will be robbed
- Engage with reality on your terms not on the mind's terms or the world's terms
- Learn to see pause as an action
- Unhealthy cravings are often unhealthy expressions of healthy needs
- Scriptural study helps us differentiate our authentic needs from our artificial needs
- See as much as you can while you can
- Don’t just be active – be aware
- Slow down to rise up
- To save time, we need spiritual elevation more than technological innovation
- Are we clearing the inner fog?
- Go beyond rapidity and vapidity to clarity and serenity
- Chapter 14, Text 12
- Gita 14.12 explained
- How greed moves our goalpost endlessly
- As long as we lack purity we live in poverty no matter how much money we have
- Seeking satisfaction through accumulation increases accumulation not satisfaction
- Passion increases desire not just in intensity but also in quantity
- The mind makes us juggle too many balls – and then makes us drop them all
- Trying to be materially over-productive is spiritually counter-productive
- Our happiness depends not as much on our standard of living as on our standard of longing
- To not consider our capacity is to cripple our capacity
- To change your life, change the narrative of your life
- What we don’t have is not the problem – what we don’t see is
- If we don’t make time for time-saving activities, we stay hard-pressed for time
- Thinking is not just a matter of thinking
- Don’t confuse activity with productivity
- Seek specialty through authenticity, not novelty
- A passion for fashion ends in dissatisfaction and delusion
- Let where we crave to be not drag us away from where we need to be
- Are we mistaking an inner lacking for an outer lacking?
- Are we desiring the worthy or the trendy?
- Chapter 14, Text 13
- Let me not feel helpless about feeling helpless
- Gita 14.13 explained
- What is mental sickness? (Mental health series 2)
- Our activities may need to be spaced out, but we don’t need to be spaced out
- Goodness and ignorance may seem similar in action, but they are antipodal in disposition
- The lower our consciousness, the lesser is our contribution
- We need to come at least slightly out of ignorance to realize that we are in ignorance
- Insanity is not compulsory
- Be not dulled and lulled by TV
- Chapter 14, Text 14
- Chapter 14, Text 15
- Chapter 14, Text 16
- Outcome of wrong actions: external and internal
- The cure for dissatisfaction
- Gita 14.16 explained
- Dissatisfaction: cause and cure
- Why does happiness often lead to distress?
- Possessions can’t provide satisfaction – we need purification
- Comfortable misery is still misery
- Dissatisfaction is more often caused by inner instability than by outer incompatibility
- Our happiness depends far more on the thoughts within than on the things without
- Chapter 14, Text 17
- Four ways people see religion
- Four ways people conceive God
- Four ways people look at death
- Four ways people look at problems
- Gita 14.17 explained
- Is our knowledge making us prouder or wiser?
- Chapter 14, Text 18
- Chapter 14, Text 19
- Gita 14.19 explained
- Act proactively, not reactively
- Let the thoughts that go away from Krishna take our thoughts towards Krishna
- Chapter 14, Text 20
- Gita 14.20 explained
- Deeming everything an illusion is not liberation – it just makes even liberation an illusion
- The fundamental negative thinking is thinking that happiness is to be found only in matter
- Chapter 14, Text 21
- Chapter 14, Text 22
- How to dump emotional bumps and slumps during meditation
- Beyond pat explanations for our unhealthy behaviors
- How to better manage our emotions
- How curiosity can increase our self-awareness
- How can we be grateful when we don’t feel grateful?
- You are not a negative thinker even if your mind is
- Don’t let the craving for clarity distract us from working with whatever clarity we have
- Even if we can’t control our emotions we can control the attention we give to our emotions
- Our thoughts have no power on us till we give them our thought
- Act it till you achieve it
- Not every thought is worth our thought
- Doing what we don’t feel like doing is not necessarily being superficial
- Understand the thought-wave under the thought
- Thinking is natural, but thinking about thinking is special
- Be reflective, not reflexive
- Look at the mind before you look with the mind
- Our feelings are not always our feelings
- Chapter 14, Text 22-25
- Chapter 14, Text 23
- Jealousy becomes the recipe for unhappiness
- The present moment
- The tension between the present me & the potential me
- Resolving emotional tensions through Gita wisdom
- The less we identify with our thoughts the less we act thoughtlessly
- Our urges aren’t like endlessly rising lines they are like endlessly recurring waves – surf them patiently
- Our thoughts are not always wise – we don’t have to follow their advice
- When emotions appeal within us be the umpire not the appealer
- Our mind is a madhouse, but we don’t have to be mad
- Introspection distances us from our situations and our emotions
- We are not our feelings – we are the feelers of our feelings
- The mind changes the surface we are playing on – beware
- Our mental inclination is not necessarily our personal intention
- An intruder inside us is an intruder still
- Be not a passive observer – be a detached observer and a devoted doer
- Be consciousness-conscious
- Navigate the troughs of consciousness by focusing on the peak
- Chapter 14, Text 24
- We can’t shut the mouth of our critics, but we don’t have to let their words fill our heart
- We are just extras in others’ plots
- Chapter 14, Text 26
- Gita 14.26 explained
- Holding on to the Krishna anchor
- How can Arjuna practice undeviating bhakti when the modes are causing his deviation?
- Managing our emotions - shift focus from emotions to actions
- Our mind is like our inbox – focus on the thoughts that matter
- Tolerance prevents the inner sine wave from triggering an outer sin wave
- When Krishna feels far away, don’t doubt Krishna – doubt your feelings
- Krishna sees not just our feelings but also our feelings about our feelings
- Bhakti-yoga trains us in unemotional emotionality
- If we wait for inspiration, we are waiters, not worshipers
- Chapter 14, Text 27
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