Chapter 18

Krishna's revelation of the Bhagavad Gita in its conclusion is private, not secret. When Krishna at the end of the Gita states that this knowledge [...]

Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that if we want to achieve [...]

How to make discipline easier Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that [...]

The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. [...]

The absence of ability is excusable. The absence of will isn't. Whenever something important is to be done, if someone is not able to do [...]

The difference between lack of ability and lack of will is found in situations of necessity, even emergency. When someone says that they can't do [...]

What is sensible and what feels desirable are frequently not the same thing – and intelligence means to value the desirable more than the desirable. [...]

When we take an issue further than it needs to go, then we are making the issue: the issue is not making itself. Sometimes when [...]

We all are entitled to our opinions: but we are not entitled to the expectation that others agree to our opinions, let alone that the [...]

The Bhagavad Gita has 700 texts which are often called as verses. The Bhagavad Gita itself, the name refers to Gita as song, Bhagavad is [...]

Just because our dreams do not come true does not mean that we do not have a right to dream. We just need to dream [...]

To be optimistic without being realistic sets us up for unnecessary pain. To be realistic without being optimistic keeps us in unnecessary pain. When we [...]

To be successful, we need to be both optimistic and realistic. Whenever we strive to achieve something difficult, we need to be optimistic about our [...]

Two steps for manifesting our potential are realizing our potential and releasing our potential. We all have some gifts that are given to us by [...]

Ambition is not necessarily about reaching above ourselves. It is about reaching within ourselves to bring outside what is hidden inside. When we are ambitious [...]

When our memories become our enemies, we don't need to reject our memories – we just need to redirect our attention toward creating fresh memories. [...]

The urge for adventure should make us explore the new; but not reject the old, just for the sake of rejecting the old. Not everything [...]

Worrying is expressing a vote of no confidence in God. Generally, when things seem to be going wrong, we start worrying. Why such worrying is [...]

Why we are sometimes a mystery to ourselves. Sometimes we behave in ways that we just can't figure out: “What made me speak like that?” [...]

Doing something because it is difficult is a healthy way of ensuring that we grow, provided that the difficult thing helps us grow. Generally we [...]