Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-07-01-hearing-paves-our-way-to-the-summit-of-yoga/ śrī-bhagavān uvāca mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ [...]
In Bhagavad-gita (7.1), Krishna introduces the chapter and the section extending from chapters 7 to 12. This is known as the bhakti section, with the [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya So let us look at BG [...]
The Bhagavad-gita’s seventh chapter begins with a strikingly different emphasis from its previous six chapters. While those chapters focused on detachment as the [...]
What intelligence can and can’t do in bhakti: On the devotional path, the ultimate success and the immediate process both center on a personal loving [...]
Our attachments are our mental home – that’s where our thoughts go by default when we have nothing to think about, just as we physically [...]
Our mind has an enormous influence on us – when we are thinking of one thing, it can take our thoughts in an entirely different [...]
Whenever we become good at anything, our ego tempts us to feel superior to those who are not that good. This same temptation lures us [...]
As spiritual beginners, we may think that our attachments cause our entanglement. Such thinking doesn’t probe deep enough – it fails to ask: Why are [...]
Believing doubts might sound like an oxymoron because after all we think of doubts as something centered on disbelief. Yet the truth is that belief [...]
The word ‘fix’ can mean ‘focus’ or ‘repair.’ Using these dual meanings, this article title conveys: To repair the mind, focus it on Krishna. Presently, [...]
Intelligence boosted by scriptural wisdom is our defense against self-centered desire – it helps us see through desire’s false promises. When desire can’t penetrate our [...]
People often think of spirituality as centered on detachment – renunciation of pleasures, positions, possessions, even individuality and relationships. Such a conception makes spirituality appear [...]