Our vulnerability points to our opportunity
We may get the question, “Why do we get tempted and deluded so easily? Why are we so vulnerable?” Gita wisdom answers that our vulnerability [...]
Life is too precious to be wasted in doubting
“This doesn’t make sense.” We may get such doubts while studying Gita wisdom. To ensure that doubts don’t swamp our spiritual prospects, we need to [...]
Devotion raises our knowledge of Krishna from superficial familiarity to substantial understanding
The Bhagavad-gita (04.09) states that those who know in truth the divine birth and activities of Krishna become liberated and return to his eternal abode. [...]
To end our forgetfulness, let’s first commit to end our forgetfulness of our forgetfulness
We may sometimes become discouraged in our spiritual life: “I keep forgetting Krishna repeatedly even after practicing devotional service for so long. Is my practice [...]
The Gita is not self-contradictory, but self-revelatory
“That’s self-contradictory.” We may feel thus on reading some sections of the Bhagavad-gita. For example, the Gita (9.4) states, mat-sthani sarva bhutani “All of existence [...]
Cultivate the intelligence to ask questions – and the courage to question those questions
Sometimes we ask intelligent questions about spirituality and demand immediate answers. But frequently our questions stem from dubious assumptions and downright misconceptions that need to [...]
Fearlessness comes not by the absence of fear, but by the awareness of a presence that dwarfs fear
Heart attack. Recession. Earthquake. All of us have our fears. Fears that check even choke our energy, making things far more difficult than they need [...]
Discover The Right Way to Enjoy our Right to Enjoyment
We all feel that enjoyment is our right. And Gita wisdom declares that we are right. But it cautions us against assuming that this right [...]
We can’t change the nature of nature, but we can change the nature of desire
“And they lived happily ever after.” This is the common end of most novels and movies. That is the dream of all of us, isn’t [...]
Krishna’s inner presence is to coach us, not catch us
“Krishna is present in my heart. That means he has the best vantage point to catch all the wrongs that I do.” If such fears [...]
Krishna is not only the anchor to which we connect, but also the anchor by which we connect
A boat in an ocean keeps bobbing due to the unending waves. To stay steady, it needs an anchor. Similarly, the waves of unending dualities [...]
Time makes the unpalatable unavoidable; Krishna makes the unavoidable palatable
Tick, tick, tick. The ticking clock, or in this digital age the changing figures on a timer, are a common icon of the passage of [...]
Beware of the heart attack that makes us morally unconscious
Heart attacks are among the most feared things today. They may reduce a healthy, normal person to an unconscious heap on the ground in a [...]
Don’t just bring Krishna into your life; let Krishna bring you into his life
Most people think of God only when they are in trouble, especially the kind of trouble they can’t solve on their own. They hope he [...]
Our happiness depends far more on the thoughts within than on the things without
Our culture makes us believe that we will become happy by improving the things around us – clothes, cellphones and cars, for example. Will we? [...]
We need mountains to conquer ourselves – and bhakti offers us the best mountains
Seasoned mountaineers know that successful mountaineering is about much more than the achievement of conquering the mountain – it’s about the fulfillment of conquering themselves. [...]
Pass the test, get the taste
We all long for happiness. And millions of things in this world promise us happiness. But none of them can provide lasting happiness because none [...]
Be intelligent enough to know what to do when you don’t know what to do
Life often puts us in perplexities. When we don’t know what to do, what do we do? Some people respond with kneejerk reactions, others, with [...]
Break the wall that blocks the path from the past to the future
Grieving is natural when we lose a loved one. Such grieving offers us a release for our emotions and expresses the depth of our love. [...]
Anticipate spontaneous devotion, but cultivate conscientious devotion
When we read in the scriptures about exalted devotees who spontaneously love Krishna, we as aspiring devotees naturally long for such spontaneous devotion. And we [...]
Bhakti renders the metaphysical physical and the physical metaphysical
Can we know the metaphysical nature of things (how they actually are) as contrasted with their physical nature (how they appear to us)? Modern science [...]