When scripture seems unbelievable …
When scripture seems unbelievable - On reading that the Bhagavad-gita was spoken to the solar deity (04.01), we may get the question, “How can any [...]
When scripture seems unbelievable - On reading that the Bhagavad-gita was spoken to the solar deity (04.01), we may get the question, “How can any [...]
A functional car needs to have both an accelerator and a brake. While driving, when we are on the right track, we can press the [...]
When the tendency to doubt helps - In today’s educated circles, doubt is celebrated as an intellectual strength. Whenever thoughtful people encounter any claim, especially [...]
How pride can corrupt both faith and doubt - We often equate pride with respect-demanding and self-congratulatory hubris. But it can appear much more subtly [...]
How could past people believe in things we find irrational? - Some people argue, “Past people who believed ancient texts were irrational — that’s why [...]
Is the Gita’s declaration about the world’s distressful nature pessimistic? - When we hear the Bhagavad-gita statement (08.15) that the world is a place of [...]
The Bhagavad-gita begins with a rigid differentiation between matter and spirit (02.11-30), wherein the properties of the spiritual particle, the soul, are shown to be [...]
Suppose a loved one is terribly sick and needs surgery. We sincerely want to help them, but if we don’t know the ABC of surgery, [...]
Don’t be so afraid of the irrational as to deny the possibility of the transrational We live in an age that prides itself on its [...]
Moral relativism makes wrongdoing tough to identify tougher to rectify and toughest to purify Many people nowadays argue for moral relativism: “What is wrong and [...]
We aren't merely physical being seeking sustenance safety and sex - we are essentially spiritual beings seeking purpose and progress Today’s materialistic worldview holds that [...]
When the mind insinuates it is often more insidious than when it incites Suppose a politician speaks hate speech against a particular community. Hearers can [...]
Everything expensive is not valuable everything valuable is not expensive We all long for the best in life, be it in looks, careers, positions, possessions, [...]
If we put gravity to test gravity will put us to rest Suppose someone decides to test gravity by walking off the parapet wall of [...]
Just as bigotry can blind emotionally ideology can blind intellectually In today’s social justice ethos, if someone makes a racist or sexist statement, they are [...]
Opinions are like onions - know when they need to be sealed and when peeled When we have an opinion about something, we may hold [...]
Reason can't reach beyond reason but it can give us reason to reach beyond reason Reason, or our rational faculty, is said to be the [...]
Seeking requires believing: believing that something worth seeking exists and that we have the capacity to find it Some people say, “Be a seeker, not [...]
Some people get many insights from one sight others don’t get even one insight from many sights Some people learn so much from small incidents [...]
Materialism reduces you to a number and glamorizes things that make you number Most people nowadays are materialistic: they live to seek materialistic sensations and [...]
The choices you make make you During our life, we constantly make choices. Even when we know that our choices are consequential, we may not [...]