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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17

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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17Chaitanya Charan2021-07-07T13:47:46+05:30
  • Chapter 17, Text 01
    • Gita 17.01 explained
    • Arjuna’s sixteenth question
  • Chapter 17, Text 02
    • Gita 17.02 explained
    • We are shaped not just by our ideological faith but also by our functional faith
    • On the value of judgments and the judgment of values
  • Chapter 17, Text 03
    • Gita 17.03 explained
    • How Krishna offers a nuanced understanding of faith
    • The choices you make make you
    • Our existence and our faith are related causally, constitutionally and consequentially
    • We make our faith and then our faith makes us
    • The God of terrorists is not the God of transcendentalists
  • Chapter 17, Text 04
    • Gita 17.04 explained
    • How people are equal — and how they aren’t
    • The modes are not monochrome, but are multi-level
  • Chapter 17, Text 05
    • Why Krishna gives an additional description of the demonic in the seventeenth chapter
    • Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity
  • Chapter 17, Text 05-06
    • Gita 17.05-06 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 06
    • The body is meant for neither gratification nor mortification, but for utilization
  • Chapter 17, Text 07
    • Gita 17.07 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 08
    • Gita 17.08 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 09
    • Gita 17.09 explained
    • Delusion makes eating a life-threatening activity
    • Eat food made of plants, not food made in plants
    • Those who let the culture fill their brain with junk beliefs, fill their belly with junk food
    • Are we courting suffering with the tongue?
  • Chapter 17, Text 10
    • Gita 17.10 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 11
    • Gita 17.11 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 12
    • Gita 17.12 explained
    • Why does Krishna analyze yajna dana and tapa in the three modes?
  • Chapter 17, Text 13
    • Gita 17.13 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 14
    • Gita 17.14 explained
    • Differences that make a real difference – and differences that don’t
  • Chapter 17, Text 15
    • How to ensure that the right answer has the right effect
    • How our speech can enhance our relationships?
    • How Our Words Can Make Us Strangers To Others And Even To Ourselves
    • Choose silence in these 3 situations
    • Surprise gifts: Delighted or disoriented?
    • Does urgency steal our manners?
    • Verbal restraint and verbal candour
    • Playing it safe with silence
    • Why people think we are disrespectful
    • See beyond harsh language
    • Why words hurt
    • Two kinds of extremism
    • Courage in the absence of danger?
    • Fight today’s battles not yesterday’s battles
    • The difference between cleverness and wisdom
    • Taking responsibility for the effects of our speech
    • Why sensitivity in speech is especially needed in the internet age
    • Sensitivity in communicating superiority
    • How to speak more effectively: Cross or Across?
    • Gita 17.15 explained
    • The power of words: be aware and beware
    • Two aspects of compassion as seen through our speech
    • When being truthful is helpful and when it isn’t
    • Why all insensitivity is not equal
    • How sensitivity differs from sentimentality
    • How to become more sensitive
    • When calling a spade a spade doesn’t help …
    • How Krishna’s words demonstrate the discipline of speech that he recommends
    • How we may overestimate the power of speech
    • Why we may underestimate the power of words
    • Why speaking effectively is as difficult as loving authentically
    • When political correctness helps and when it harms
    • How our speech becomes ineffective - 2
    • How our speech becomes ineffective - 1
    • Two ways to make our speech more effective
    • How to speak an unpalatable truth?
    • On words of wisdom: wisdom matters and so do words
    • How to help others choose wisely?
    • Are we committing violence with our mouth?
    • What are we seeking when we are speaking?
    • How to resolve arguments with our loved ones?
    • Have we earned the right to criticize?
    • Wrong to say others are wrong?
    • Light is usually seen before warmth is felt but spiritual warmth frequently needs to be felt before spiritual light is seen
    • We don’t owe our friends a positive response, but we do owe them a sensitive response
    • Speak in a way that educates and engages not enrages and estranges 
    • To speak effectively learn to let go of what you think you are speaking and hear what others are hearing
    • Our tongue is like a loaded gun that we always carry within us
    • Don't forget to compliment those who complement you
    • Opening the mouth without opening the mind helps neither the mouth nor the mind
    • Words are not just vehicles of thought but also engines of thought
    • To speak effectively, speak not just correctly, but also appropriately
    • Unthinking words reflect an uncaring heart
    • Anesthesia is meant to help heal sickness, not hide it
    • Watch what you talk when you talk to yourself
    • Speak to give people peace of mind, not a piece of your mind
    • Focus not on the harsh truth, but on the gentle healing
    • Speak because you have something to say, not because you have to say something
    • To learn to speak well, learn when not to speak
    • To use the truth for beating people on the head is to abuse the truth
    • Don’t just tell it like it is – tell it like it can be
    • Don’t just talk about the other – talk with the other
    • Choose words that make the heart soar, not sore
    • Speak not “to reveal the truth about others,” but to realize the truth about yourself
    • When self-righteousness obscures rightness…
    • Let our words be like windows, not walls
    • Memorizing scripture doesn’t burden the head – it unburdens the heart
    • Careless words can cause cureless wounds
  • Chapter 17, Text 16
    • Speaking our mind or speaking with our mind?
    • The discipline of mind that leads to happiness
    • The capacity to appreciate our blessings
    • How gratitude brings happiness
    • Two kinds of contentment — and how they are opposite
    • Forcing ourselves to be grateful?
    • Grateful for our weaknesses?
    • Gratitude for the past
    • Revising what we feel grateful for
    • Greedy to be grateful
    • Grab opportunities to express gratitude
    • How to be grateful when things don’t go our way?
    • Gratitude demanded is gratitude diminished
    • Outer thanks inner greed — how gratitude may be subverted
    • The pillow of gratitude
    • Gratefully ambitious
    • The healing power of gratitude
    • Learning the language of gratitude
    • Two obstacles to gratitude
    • Two connections between gratitude and mental health
    • Gratitude for the ordinary
    • Gita 17.16 explained
    • Facing losses but not feeling lost — the reorienting power of gratitude
    • Is gratitude a state or a trait?
    • What we do with our blessings
    • Does gratitude decrease our motivation to make things better?
    • How to feel grateful when we don’t feel grateful
    • How not to cultivate gratitude
    • Why counting our blessings is so transformational
    • Why is it so difficult to feel grateful?
    • Grateful even when we don’t feel full?
    • How to deal with feelings of inferiority
    • Two ways to deal with dissatisfaction
    • When the mind complains about the shortage of enjoyable sense objects contemplate the shortage of enjoyment in the supposedly enjoyable sense objects
    • Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn't give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17.16
    • The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions
    • The mind overvalues things it doesn’t have and undervalues things it does have
    • To be happy is possible to be happier than others is impossible
    • No matter how bad things are we can always make them worse – we are never powerless
    • Cultivation of satisfaction requires not the rejection of desire, but the selection of desire
    • Purity reverses our mental gravity
    • Mental silence is more defining than verbal silence
    • Just as food adds to our physical weight, thoughts add to our mental weight
    • To gain satisfaction, replace expectation with appreciation
    • Don’t crave the feast in others’ plates – savor the feast in yours
    • Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice
    • How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?
  • Chapter 17, Text 17
    • Gita 17.17 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 18
    • Gita 17.18 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 19
    • Gita 17.19 explained
    • True austerity is supplicative not manipulative
  • Chapter 17, Text 20
    • Gita 17.20 explained
    • To be compassionate, be both caring and careful
  • Chapter 17, Text 21
    • Gita 17.21 explained
    • Charity that expresses vanity ends in vanity
    • Complete charity makes the receiver feel valued , not pitied
  • Chapter 17, Text 22
    • Gita 17.22 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 23
    • Gita 17.23 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 24
    • Gita 17.24 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 25
    • Gita 17.25 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 26-27
    • Gita 17.26-27 explained
  • Chapter 17, Text 28
    • Gita 17.28 explained

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