The difference between consciousness and conscience
Consciousness is the fundamental energy of the soul. The Sanskrit word for it is chetana. If we compare the soul to a flashlight, consciousness is [...]
Beyond stereotypes of a wrathful God
Some religious groups portray God as a mighty and scary entity who sits above the clouds and casts thunderbolts to punish sinners. According to them, [...]
Feeling God or trusting God?
During our life, there will be times when we are down, yet we feel God's presence guiding, strengthening and uplifting us. However, there will also [...]
What is Bhagavad-gita? – 3
The Bhagavad-gita is quintessentially a book of dharma, wherein the word means primarily ‘the right thing to do.’ Indeed, Arjuna’s seminal question (02.07) that drives [...]
What is Bhagavad-gita? — 1
Literally, the word Bhagavad-gita means the song (gita) of God (Bhagavan, changed to Bhagavat as an adjective). It is book-length wisdom about life and living [...]
Bhagavad-gita chapter 10 summary
[Among the many things you have spoken till now, can you clearly state what is the highest?] Again indeed Arjuna, hear my supreme words – [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 9 summary — part 4
[How can you be worshiped?] Very simply; those who offer me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water – that offering of [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 9 summary — part 3
[What’s lacking if those who perform sacrifices end up conceiving the Divine as the multiplicity of deities?] They don’t know that it is me whom [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 9 summary — part 2
[When you are the overseer of material nature, why doesn’t everyone understand your divine position?] Because some people are deluded; they despise and deride me [...]
Bhagavad-gita chapter 9 summary — part 1
[For attaining the supreme result that you just mentioned, what is the easiest process?] Krishna said: This most confidential knowledge, in both its intellectual and [...]
Bhagavad-gita chapter 8 summary — part 3
[If even Brahma’s world is destructible, is there any world that is indestructible?] Higher than this entire material world, in both its manifest and unmanifest [...]
Bhagavad-gita chapter 8 summary — part 2
[While meditating on the attributes of the Supreme, do seekers themselves need to develop any attributes?] They know the Vedas well enough to recognize that [...]
Bhagavad-gita chapter 8 summary — part 1
[Can you explain the terms mentioned at the end of the last chapter (07.29-30)?] Arjuna: Krishna, what is brahman? What is adhyatma? What is karma? [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 7 summary — part 2
[If you sustain everything, why doesn’t everyone know about you?] Everyone in material existence is deluded by nature made up of the three modes – [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 7 summary — part 1
[For attaining the level of the highest yogis (06.47), is there an alternative, easier way?] Hear, Arjuna, the knowledge that will free you from doubt [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 6 summary — part 5
[How can this feeling of discouragement be addressed?] Krishna: O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next will they meet with destruction; O [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 6 summary — part 4
[How is it possible to keep the mind equally disposed when dealing with people of opposite qualities — such as the virtuous Yudhishthira and the [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 6 summary — part 3
[What happens when the consciousness is steadily fixed on the self?] By the sustained practice of yoga, all material movements of consciousness stop; and the [...]
Bhagavad-gita Chapter 6 summary — part 2
[Having ceased worldly work, how do advanced yogis progress further?] They focus constantly on the self — to that end, they stay alone in a [...]
Chapter 6 summary — part 1
[For attaining the ultimate realization described at the end of the previous chapter (05.29), can the process that was earlier outlined briefly (05.27-28) be elaborated?] [...]
Chapter 5 summary — part 3
[How do they not just know spiritual reality (brahman) but also become situated in it?] By steadying their intelligence and staying undeluded, especially amid life’s [...]