When strengths make us weak and weaknesses make us strong
To survive and thrive in our hyper-competitive culture, we usually hide our weaknesses and hype our strengths. Such a strategy may be necessary in material [...]
To survive and thrive in our hyper-competitive culture, we usually hide our weaknesses and hype our strengths. Such a strategy may be necessary in material [...]
When we get introduced to Gita wisdom, we discover a magnificent body of knowledge that answers life’s fundamental questions. As we enrich ourselves with this [...]
Suppose everyone in a country was addicted. With everyone suffering the pulls and falls of addiction, the addiction would seem normal. Because addicts frequently see [...]
Atheists sometimes induce doubts in us by presenting anti-scriptural arguments that seem irrefutable. The Bhagavad-gita (04.42) urges us to slay doubt with the sword of [...]
A fruit-bearing creeper when carefully tended gives a ripe fruit. Similarly, our devotion to Krishna when carefully tended gives an eternal life of love with [...]
All of us periodically battle urges that damn us: urges born of lust, anger and greed, for example. We want to be free from these [...]
Speciesism refers to discrimination against living beings based on their species. Belief in speciesism is implicit in today’s world. For evidence, we need to look [...]
None of us like to feel ignorant. That’s why we try to keep ourselves well-informed about things, even spiritual things. However, our information about spiritual [...]
Pleasure, profit, success. We look forward to these in life. But they are only one part of the package. They are inevitably and inextricably bound [...]
When we share Gita wisdom with others, we sometimes find them arguing for the sake of arguing, holding on to positions that are illogical and [...]
Slaves. The word conjures images of miserable people forced into bonded labor, stripped of self-respect and denied life’s pleasures. That’s not an image we will [...]
When a moth sees a fire, it becomes so captivated that it rushes straight towards it. The closer it gets, the hotter it feels. However, [...]
For a boat a storm is one of the greatest dangers.No wonder trained boat drivers alertly look for signs that presage a storm. By identifying [...]
We normally don’t like pain. But when a to-be-mother undergoes labor pains, love shifts her thoughts from the present pain to the future child. Her [...]
Is bhakti a feeling that arises spontaneously in the heart, a feeling that some people get and some people don’t? We may think thus when [...]
We all want to control our dependents. And we do need some control to guide them properly. Yet by their very nature people often go [...]
Our culture indoctrinates us with the belief that the body is the road to enjoyment, especially sexual enjoyment. The sexual experience seems exhilaratingwhile it lasts.But [...]
Surrender. The idea often conjures images of a warrior accepting defeat and being bound by the enemy. When the Bhagavad-gita (18.66) asks us to surrender, [...]
We may injure our relationships by an unwitting error: giving things more of our attention than the people for whom we are doing those things. [...]
We all need money for living. But neither our culture externally nor our mind internally allows us to stay satisfied with earning for living. Both [...]
When a mother cares for her child, she has to be vigilant and diligent: vigilant to constantly watch whether the child is doing anything mischievous [...]