What is mental sickness? (Mental health series 2)
What is mental sickness? - Mental sickness centers essentially on a significant misalignment between reality and our perception of reality. This understanding is echoed in [...]
Where do we draw the line that separates the good from the bad? (Beyond black and white conceptions series 7)
Where do we draw the line that separates the good from the bad? - When someone wrongs us, we often tend to paint ourselves as [...]
Go beyond virtue signaling (Beyond black and white conceptions series 4)
Go beyond virtue signaling - When we see someone doing something horribly wrong, we may feel driven to protest or correct. Nowadays when activism is [...]
How black and white conceptions disempower us (Beyond black and white conceptions series 1)
How black and white conceptions disempower us - When a small child learns to recognize black and white colors, that’s a step forward in their [...]
Gita 14.17 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now Krishna talked about the [...]
Resolving emotional tensions through Gita wisdom
Resolving emotional tensions through Gita wisdom - Emotions are among the strongest forces that shape our actions and our life at large. Unfortunately, emotions can [...]
How can we be grateful when we don’t feel grateful?
How can we be grateful when we don’t feel grateful? - When we strive to cultivate gratitude, we often find it elusive. At one moment, [...]
Gita 14.12 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 14.12 lobhaḥ pravṛttir ārambhaḥ [...]
How greed moves our goalpost endlessly
How greed moves our goalpost endlessly - Moving the goalpost means unfairly altering the target of an endeavor while it is being pursued. Let’s see [...]
You are not a negative thinker even if your mind is
You are not a negative thinker even if your mind is - “You are such a negative thinker.” We may receive this discouraging feedback if [...]
Is our knowledge making us prouder or wiser?
Is our knowledge making us prouder or wiser? We often think that if we gain enough information, we will become knowledgeable. Significantly however, the Bhagavad-gita [...]
Why does happiness often lead to distress?
We all want to be happy. And we often think that if we get enjoyable worldly objects, we will become happy. Yes, those things can [...]
Gita 14.06 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 14.6 tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt [...]
As long as we lack purity we live in poverty no matter how much money we have
As long as we lack purity we live in poverty no matter how much money we have We often equate poverty with a lack of [...]
We can’t foresee every consequence of our actions but we can foresee their probable consequences — and we should
We can’t foresee every consequence of our actions but we can foresee their probable consequences — and we should Suppose we are driving a huge [...]
Might nature be teaching us to stop believing that we humans alone matter on the earth?
Might nature be teaching us to stop believing that we humans alone matter on the earth? For the last few centuries, we humans have used [...]
The less we identify with our thoughts the less we act thoughtlessly
Whenever we do something regrettable, we wonder, “Why did I act so thoughtlessly?” First, we are never literally thoughtless, for we are never without thoughts. [...]
If we don’t fix the broken doors to our consciousness, we will be robbed
If we don’t fix the broken doors to our consciousness we will be robbed Suppose our home has a broken door. If we don’t want [...]
Just because a wound is painless doesn’t mean it is harmless – even when we are not hurting, we still need healing
Just because a wound is painless doesn’t mean it is harmless – even when we are not hurting we still need healing Suppose we had [...]
Gita 14.20 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Previous verse explains that when [...]
Don’t be annoyed that people are so bad, be amazed that they aren’t worse
Don’t be annoyed that people are so bad be amazed that they aren’t worse People can annoy us in innumerable ways – they can be [...]