Let the yoga of you reaching out to me inspire my reciprocal yoga to reach out to you
Bhagavad Gita 10.7 etaṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca mama yo vetti tattvataḥ so ’vikampena yogena yu-jyate nātra saṁśayaḥ One who knows my glories unending, And [...]
Gita 07.28 – Explanation
Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-07-28-dont-expect-immediate-steady-determination-use-present-determination-even-if-unsteady/ yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām te [...]
Gita 07.25 – Explanation
Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-07-25-yoga-maya-is-a-profound-oxymoron/ nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ mūḍho ’yaṁ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam (Bg 7.25) [...]
Gita 07.13 – Explanation
Gita 07.13 – The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-07-13-the-modes-sabotage-our-prospects-of-coming-out-of-material-existence/ tribhir guṇa-mayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat mohitaṁ [...]
Take away the conditionings that take me away from your unconditional love
Bhagavad Gita 9.31 kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā śaśvac-chāntiṁ nigacchati kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati Soon he walks the righteous way, Finding peace that will [...]
Gita 06.43 – Explanation
Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-43-spiritual-inclination-is-the-credit-that-carries-over-beyond-the-corpse/ tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ labhate paurva-dehikam yatate ca tato [...]
Gita 06.20 – Explanation
Gita 06.20 – Stop outer obsession to begin inner perception Audio Link: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-06-20-stop-outer-obsession-to-begin-inner-perception/ yatroparamate cittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā yatra caivātmanātmānaṁ paśyann ātmani tuṣyati (Bg 6.20) Word-for-word: [...]
Help me see the huge price I pay for a tiny pleasure (5.22)
Bhagavad Gita 5.22 ye hi saṁsparśa-jā bhogāḥ duḥkha-yonaya eva te ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ "From the titillation of the senses comes a [...]
Help me to stay on guard, whatever be the enemy’s garb (3.38)
Bhagavad Gita 3.38 dhūmenāvriyate vahnir yathādarśo malena ca yatholbenāvṛto garbhas tathā tenedam āvṛtam "As fire is covered by rising smoke, As dust on a [...]
Let the experience of your presence drive my desires (2.65)
Bhagavad Gita 2.65 prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ hānir asyopajāyate prasanna-cetaso hy āśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate "Through divine grace, all sorrows cease, From all its burdens, the heart [...]
Gita 02.01 – Explanation – 1
Gita 02.01 – Arjuna’s analysis only aggravates his agony Audio 1 - https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-02-01-arjunas-analysis-only-aggravates-his-agony/ sañjaya uvāca taṁ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭam aśru-pūrṇākulekṣaṇam viṣīdantam idaṁ vākyam uvāca madhusūdanaḥ (BG [...]
Rising from the worldviews of desire despair and dread to the worldview of devotion
Rising from the worldviews of desire despair and dread to the worldview of devotion Opening our eyes to reality is not meant to fill us [...]
How God can use dead ends
What seems to be a dead end for us can simply be, for God, a means to show us that without him, we are dead—and [...]
What kind of traveling companion is God?
God is not a reluctant or indifferent companion; he is a diligent and transcendent companion. Whenever we travel with someone, we seek to know what [...]
Is Krishna with me? Am I with Krishna?
Devotion centers on arriving at an affirmative answer to two questions: Is God with me? And am I with God? The Bhagavad-gita (6.29) and (6.30) [...]
Transform our wandering into a pilgrimage
In the Bhagavad Gita (18.61), Krishna states that he is directing the wanderings of all living beings from his strategic vantage point, which is within [...]
How Krishna descends to civilize and spiritualize humanity
One of the greatest civilizing forces in human history has been the belief in a God who keeps track of our actions and who [...]
Why we remain strangers to ourselves …
We are often fascinated by characters depicted in novels and movies. Fans fill blogs analyzing every single dialogue spoken by fictional characters in, say, Star [...]
Who is defining our identity: our mind or our Lord?
Our mind often acts as our enemy (Bhagavad-gita 06.06). One way it acts inimically is by discouraging us whenever we attempt anything worthwhile: “You are [...]
How can we know reality?
Suppose someone is walking on a road with their eyes blindfolded and ears plugged. If they struggled only to remove the ear plugs that blocked [...]
When the distance between us and God seems unscalable …
We sometimes succumb to such improper actions and succumb so frequently and so grievously that we may feel that there is an unscalable distance between [...]