All-or-nothing refers to situations where the winner gets everything and the loser, nothing. In a war, specifically the take-no-prisoners kind of confrontation that ends with [...]
When we work at a 9-to-5 job that we don’t particularly like, we dislike being disturbed by office work outside office-hours. If we like our [...]
When we feel that someone has wronged us, our mind often overreacts, painting them as mean and malevolent. However, in most routine interactions, people don’t [...]
Short-tempered people are sometimes said to be “wired to explode.” This expression draws metaphorically from technology to imply that our behavior is determined by our [...]
We sometimes feel cravings for things that we would normally never indulge in real life. Yet we entertain those cravings mentally, thinking that the mental [...]
Suppose we decide to drive by a particular path to a particular destination. If that path is blocked, we will flexibly choose an alternative path. [...]
A child playing in a courtyard sees a fence as a restriction that limits the area for playing. When that same child grows to become [...]
Some people think, “To practice spiritual life seriously, I need to be free from temptations. And as I still get tempted, I can’t practice spiritual [...]
We humans innately need to make sense of things. Science, art and religion all are various means by which we try to find meaning in [...]
The world often judges us by our actions. Even if we have the best of intentions, if our actions don’t work out right, the world [...]
Suppose we have some special talents by which we can excel in an important service. But we may hesitate to use those talents, fearing that [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 13.16 bahir antaś ca [...]
Materialistic people consider sense gratification to be life's ultimate purpose – they crave and slave to achieve it. However, sense pleasure is inescapably temporary. The [...]
Some people conceive of the Absolute Truth impersonally. As they associate personality with form and finiteness, they feel that the Absolute, being infinite, cannot be [...]
The Gita is a complex philosophical book. Simultaneously, it is a practical spiritual guide. When we understand its essential concepts, we can discern, amidst its [...]
No one desires to become an addict. When people drink, they usually want to have a good time with their friends. However, each time they [...]
Our emotionality is an innate feature of our very being – it comes from the core of who we are, conscious, spiritual beings. A central [...]
D During our life-journey, we all experience miseries, which may leave us disheartened, disoriented, devastated. Pertinently, the Bhagavad-gita (08.15) states that the material world where [...]
“Beating our head against a wall” refers idiomatically to any activity whose only result is to hurt us. When we share spiritual knowledge with others, [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 13.4 tat kṣetraṁ yac [...]
When someone hurts us, we may become filled with anger and resentment. Entertaining revenge fantasies, we may hold grudges against them. Just as heavy weights [...]
