Life’s speed-breakers are meant to be faith-builders, not faith-breakers
People often ask: “There’s so much suffering in the world. Does God actually care?” Yes, God cares – and cares more than we can comprehend. [...]
Remembrance of Krishna’s immanence brings resilience during our march to transcendence
We naturally think of those close to us. People can be close physically or emotionally. Because our senses perceive the physical reality around us, our [...]
Seek not moments of devotion; seek momentum in devotion
In an elevator, what gets us to the destination quickly is the motion of the elevator, not our emotion during the elevation. Bhakti-yoga is like [...]
The world is a hospital; be hospitable to the doctor
Patients admitted in a hospital know that the doctor’s counsel is essential for their recovery. If some patients were inhospitable to the doctor, we would [...]
To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness
We may sometimes become discouraged in our spiritual life: “I keep forgetting Krishna repeatedly even after practicing devotional service for so long. Is my practice [...]
We can’t change the nature of nature, but we can change the nature of desire
“And they lived happily ever after.” This is the common end of most novels and movies. That is the dream of all of us, isn’t [...]
Leave no space to space out
Doing anything worthwhile requires attentiveness. A sportsperson has to be on high alert to perform in the sporting arena. This need for attentiveness applies all [...]
Feed the heart a healthy diet, not a deadly diet
Just as we grow externally by the food we eat, we grow internally by the dreams that we cherish. The current culture fills us with [...]
Our life takes off when we understand how soon life takes us off
Suppose we have a hired car for a day with us and need to go a long way to reach our destination. The more the [...]
Beyond the love that hides to the love that guides
Parents sometimes hide their financial or familial problems from their children out of love. But there are times that make such a love harmful, not [...]
“Now and then” or “from now on”?
We all have had hobbies. Things that we do ‘now and then’ after we have dealt with the more serious, pressing and unavoidable aspects of [...]
Are we changing the world or is the world changing us?
Gita wisdom enables us to make sense of the world as it is – and as it can be. The world is as it is, [...]
Let our potentials, not our problems, define us
Our materialistic culture pits us in constant competition against others. Such exposure may make us feel that we have a lot of problems, “I don’t [...]
Material nature is characterized by cyclic proces, not linear progress
Our mainstream culture makes us believe that life at the material level is linearly progressive; so, our efforts can make things better materially. This belief [...]
We can’t create paradise, nor were we created in paradise – but we can go to paradise
Many technologists feel that hi-tech appliances will gradually provide necessities and luxuries for more and more people. Thus, they posit that we humans will create [...]
Devotion enables us to strike a deal between the extraordinary and the ordinary
As spiritual seekers living in a material body and a materialist culture, our lives have two sides: the spiritual and the material. Given that materialism [...]
Gain double empowerment for destination eternity
Eternity is a universal longing of all living beings, human and sub-human. This longing can be discerned in all species through the ingenious and indefatigable [...]
Go beyond naughty desires and knotty doubts
When we embark on our inward spiritual journey towards Krishna, our mind blocks us with naughty desires and our intelligence, with knotty doubts. Bhakti removes [...]
Let devotion be your steering wheel, not your spare wheel
The demands and desires of our material life frequently press on us so insistently that our devotional life gets pushed to the background of our [...]
Might we be shooting the messenger instead of pondering the message?
In the past, despots would routinely shoot messengers who brought bad news. Today, shooting is replaced by labeling; those who raise discomforting issues are often [...]
Be not scared of the sacred
We may be held back in our spiritual quest by the subconscious apprehension that the advanced, sacred states of spiritual realization may be too difficult [...]