A hard look or a hard knock — what will we choose?
If we don’t take a hard look at ourselves, we will soon get a hard knock from ourselves. We often worry about people who are [...]
When we feel tormented by desire, what can we do?
When we feel tormented by desire, what can we do? Indulgence in a desire may provide immediate relief from its torment, but it takes us [...]
What’s wrong with repeatedly indulging in a desire?
Whenever we indulge in a desire—whether it is to eat, watch TV, gossip, consume alcohol or drugs, or any other indulgence—we often perceive it as [...]
Help me to remember how temptation is treacherous (3.39)
Bhagavad Gita 3.39 āvṛtaṁ jñānam etena jñānino nitya-vairiṇā kāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya duṣpūreṇānalena ca "Covered is wisdom by this eternal foe, Desire which tends to endlessly [...]
Gita 03.39 explained
Bg 3.39 āvṛtaṁ jñānam etena jñānino nitya-vairiṇā kāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya duṣpūreṇānalena ca Word for word: āvṛtam — covered; jñānam — pure consciousness; etena — by [...]