We help ourselves best by remembering that we are helpless without God
The saying “God helps those who help themselves” conveys validly that we shouldn’t expect God to do everything for us, but should strive to do [...]
God’s infinitude makes him not unknowable, but inexhaustible
Some people argue, “God is infinite, so we can never know him.” Such an argument, while apparently preserving God’s infinitude, makes loving him difficult, if [...]
Where we are determines what we see
To a person on the North Pole, the equator is towards the south. But to a person on the South Pole, the same equator is [...]
Gita 10.16 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now next few verses Arjuna [...]
Scriptural regulation is productive, not restrictive
Suppose a gold-seeker digs at a place where there’s no gold and is told by a geologist to not dig there. Is such a direction [...]
We may let go of Krishna, but Krishna will never let go of us
A person falling off a cliff can be saved by holding on to another person standing on the cliff. We are like the falling person, [...]
Gita 10.14 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So this is the essential [...]
Happiness comes not by collecting the material, but by recollecting the spiritual
We live in a materialistic culture that aggressively propagates the notion that we will become happy by gaining more and more material things. Being seduced [...]
Gita 10.12-13 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan What is Arjuna response we [...]
Contemplation is the natural result of attraction and contemplation naturally results in attraction
When we are attracted to something, we naturally think of it and even mentally live with it. Cricket lovers, for example, often live in their [...]
Don’t let net surfing degenerate to suffering in the net
When we travel to an unfamiliar place, we are alert to dangers such as muggers. When we surf the net, our consciousness travels to whatever [...]
What we think of at our death is more important than what others think about us after our death
Some teachers recommend that we visualize our funeral and contemplate what others will say about us at that time. The difference between what others say [...]
Dissatisfaction is more often caused by inner instability than by outer incompatibility
The nature of the mind is to always keep us dissatisfied, to make us feel that something is wrong out there. Under its influence, we [...]
God’s infinitude is not mathematical – it is transcendental
God is infinite. What does this mean? To understand how the elusive concept of infinity applies to God, let’s begin with a familiar application of [...]
To make a principle out of absence is to perpetuate the absence
Some religious groups argue, “Because God is infinite, we can never know him. The more any tradition claims to know specific features about him, the [...]
Gita 10.06 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Next Krishna describes how the [...]
Our sense of beauty points to our transcendence
We have an innate sense of beauty – beautiful things naturally attract our heart. But where does this sense come from? If we are just [...]
The available becomes valuable when it becomes accessible
Suppose we come to know of a powerful feature in our phone. That feature was always available, but to us it was just an icon [...]
Gita 10.04-05 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan 10 chapter 1st verse Krishna [...]
Don’t let the mind make you fight more battles than you need to
If soldiers while fighting a battle agonize about a reversal in yesterday’s battle or worry about the danger in tomorrow’s battle, they will undermine their [...]
Gita 10.03 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan So in 10.3 He describes [...]