Gita 06.07 – The controlled mind disregards dualities and discovers the Supersoul Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-07-the-controlled-mind-disregards-dualities-and-discovers-the-supersoul/ jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ (Bg 6.7) Word-for-word: [...]
Do we know who we are dealing with? "You don’t know who you’re dealing with" is a common line delivered by villains in movies [...]
To stop freaking out, stop thinking of the world as a freak show and start seeing the mind as the freak We have all seen [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.7 jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ "One who has mastered the self stands serene, In heat or cold, in joy [...]
Whenever there is a running commentary of an event, say a cricket match, then the event is happening at one place and a live commentary [...]
In next verse Sri Krishna will describe the symptom of one who has conquered the mind, the mind will become friend when we have [...]
We live in a culture that makes us crave for external validation, all the more so with the advent of social media. Therein, every post [...]
Our mind often acts as our enemy (Bhagavad-gita 06.06). One way it acts inimically is by discouraging us whenever we attempt anything worthwhile: “You are [...]
As long as we don’t mine under the mind the mind will undermine us Suppose someone is digging for buried gold. If they find iron [...]
When we make God our friend we become our own friend We are often our worst enemies. When we get some lucky breaks, we let [...]
Focus on life not on the mind’s commentary about life Suppose a cricket match is accompanied by a special kind of commentary that is heard [...]
When the mind engages it encages; when Krishna engages he elevates When deciding whether to work for some employer, we usually evaluate whether serving them [...]
Things fall in place if we keep the mind in place Suppose we come to our house and find everything out of place. We may [...]
We often sense a voice inside us, a voice that sometimes prompts us to do good and sometimes to do bad. We may wonder: Whose [...]
Suppose A suggests to B: “Buy this.” If B buys and then finds that the product is of poor quality, then if A recommends something [...]
Suppose a part of a country is afflicted by insurgency. To gain control, that country needs to not just crush the insurgents but to also [...]
“Lose one’s mind” can have multiple meanings, based on literal and idiomatic usages of the word lose. These meanings can illumine various aspects of bhakti [...]
Many people confuse the mind with the soul because both are inside. However, the soul and the mind differ cognitively, constitutionally and functionally. Cognitively, the [...]
