Combating addiction: Recognizing the battle within
Whenever someone is abducted, the abductor demands a ransom for the person’s release. The most fiendish abductors, however, continually increase their ransom without ever releasing [...]
Whenever someone is abducted, the abductor demands a ransom for the person’s release. The most fiendish abductors, however, continually increase their ransom without ever releasing [...]
Whenever we strive for self-improvement, particularly in resisting self-sabotaging indulgences, we may perceive this battle as a personal affair with minimal consequences. This mindset can [...]
When someone is subjected to an addiction, they experience it to be like an unbearable itch. They feel that the only way to get relief [...]
Whenever we see somebody suffering from addiction, unable to give up some indulgence, even when it is harmful to them—harmful to their loved ones—it will [...]
Bg 3.36 arjuna uvāca atha kena prayukto ’yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ anicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ Word for word: arjunaḥ uvāca — Arjuna said; [...]
Arjuna’s fourth question - “What makes us do things that we know aren’t good for us?” Most of us have probably asked ourselves this question [...]
Suppose someone becomes addicted to drinking. Despite being urged to give up drinking and despite even promising to give up, they keep drinking. We may [...]
Suppose we are diabetic, eat too many sweets and face a major health crisis. To be cured, we need to understand and accept the unpalatable [...]
We all have an inbuilt self-destruction button. For example, in sports such as cricket, an in-form batsman who is leading his team to a comfortable [...]
Recovering drug addicts often report that they relapse into indulgence not because they want to get high but because they just want to feel normal. [...]
Few things raise people's guard as much as threats to their freedom from totalitarian governments. Yet they often overlook the greatest threat to individual freedom [...]
We sometimes get impure desires such as sexual attraction towards someone. Many people choose to fulfill these impure desires privately through various secret arrangements. By [...]
All of us have experience of times when our impulses overpower our values and goad us into actions that we regret later. How do our [...]