Bhagavad Gita

The search for pleasures drives all of us. Unfortunately, it drives many of us to the opposite of its purpose – to trouble. Consider people [...]

In today’s materialistic culture, countless images of attractive sense objects allure us incessantly. Our mind imagines that the pleasure therein is immense and irresistible. Believing [...]

Suppose we are walking on a street, wearing earphones that deafen us to all external sounds. We would be in danger especially if a large [...]

During a war, a spy who penetrates into a defending army can wreak havoc from within, for the defenders won’t even know whom to fight [...]

Some people believe that money is the ultimate gain – if they just gain enough money, that can protect them from any pain. However, a [...]

Some children have toys piling up in their rooms. Still, they crave more and more toys. And if they can’t get one new toy, they [...]

A field vulnerable to flooding needs to be protected by barriers. But if the barring walls are very low, the protection will be largely illusory. [...]

Memorization and recitation of scriptures is often recommended as a purificatory practice for spiritual growth. Additionally, in social circles that respect scriptural learning, those who [...]

Some people think that becoming spiritual requires giving up material life. However, their apprehension arises from a misunderstanding of spirituality. The foundational spiritual text, Bhagavad-gita, [...]

In a mental health care center, not everyone is mad. The medical staff are sober and are meant to take care of the mentally sick. [...]

Sometimes people ask, “What is the practical use of gaining knowledge about Krishna? When we get knowledge about, say, engineering, we can earn a living. [...]

Mindfulness is, broadly speaking, the conscious awareness of what we are doing, why we are doing it, what we are thinking and why we are [...]

Today, humanity is the greatest danger to humanity – not just by direct attacks by humans on other humans but also by human exploitation of [...]

A modern social critic, George Orwell, highlighted how the illusoriness of the equality that communism tried to create: “In communism all people are equal, but [...]

Suppose we have resolved to increase our self-control by, say, regulating our eating. But we suddenly get a desire to eat something. If we have [...]

Some people say that everything is an illusion. But such a statement is self-contradictory. When we say that everything is an illusion, then we are [...]

Our past can sometimes seem like a prison, especially if some of our past indulgences have become compulsive. The way out of the prison of [...]

Suppose we have a garden with the potential for beautiful flowers and delicious fruits. Still, we need to grow them. If instead we keep craving [...]

Suppose the knowledge about road signs that we studied for getting a driving license has become inert within us. It has gone so much to [...]

We all want to be happy. However, where we seek that happiness determines whether we will become happy or not. Quite often we look for [...]

Amidst pain, if we obsess on it, we can’t learn from the pain and grow through it. By thus squandering the opportunity provided indirectly by [...]