Gita 01.46 – Explanation 1
Gita 01.46 The Significance Of Our Actions Depends Not Just On The Actions But Also On The Situations In Which We Do Those Actions [...]
Gita 01.46 – Explanation 2
Gita 01.46 - When The Eye Disheartens Let The Ear Hearten Audio Link 2: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-01-46-when-the-eye-disheartens-let-the-ear-hearten/ sañjaya uvāca evam uktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye rathopastha upāviśat visṛjya [...]
Gita 01.45 – Explanation 1
Gita 01.45 The War Was Not To Gain A Kingdom But To Protect The Rule Of Law Audio Link 1: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-01-45-the-war-was-not-to-gain-a-kingdom-but-to-protect-the-rule-of-law/ yadi mām [...]
Gita 01.45 – Explanation 2
Gita 01.45 - Sound Arguments From A Fragmented Perception Are Actually Unsound Audio Link 2: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-01-45-sound-arguments-from-a-fragmented-perception-are-actually-unsound/ yadi mām apratīkāram aśastraṁ śastra-pāṇayaḥ dhārtarāṣṭrā raṇe [...]
Gita 01.41 – Explanation 1
Gita 01.41 When The Family Is Disrupted The Faith Of The Children Is Also Devastated Audio Link 1: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-01-41-when-the-family-is-disrupted-the-faith-of-the-children-is-also-devastated/ saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kulasya [...]
Gita 01.41 – Explanation 2
Gita 01.41 - Unwanted Progeny - What Does Unwanted Mean Audio Link 2: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-01-41-unwanted-progeny-what-does-unwanted-mean/ saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kulasya ca patanti pitaro hy eṣāṁ [...]
Why did Dhritarshtra not surrender after seeing the Universal Form?
Although Dhritarashtra saw the universal form, why did he not surrender to Krishna? Because his attachment acted like a blinding cloud. The great vision that [...]
Gita 06.32 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Now Sri Krishna will conclude this [...]
Why it’s easy to be narrow-minded
The world around us is so complex that we need to reduce it to some simple functional categories. For example, suppose we need to ask [...]
Why does Krishna give Arjuna special eyes to see the universal form?
The universal form is a revelation, which essentially means it is something not normally accessible to us humans, but made accessible by divine intervention. How [...]
What is the universal form? Why does Arjuna want to see it?
The term ‘universal form’ essentially refers to a form that shows Krishna’s presence, power, purpose spread across the entire universe. The universal form pervades the [...]
Gita 12.01 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan 12th chapter is called Bhakti [...]
What does the complex philosophy of the Gita’s thirteenth chapter mean for Arjuna?
The Bhagavad gita thirteenth chapter is its most philosophically dense chapter. How is all this philosophy relevant to Arjuna on the battlefield? What does the [...]
Gita 11.47 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Before Krishna reveals the forms [...]
What is unprecedented about Krishna’s revelation of the universal form to Arjuna
In the Bhagavad-gita’s eleventh chapter, Krishna states twice that his revelation of the universal form is unprecedented (11.06: adrishta-purvani, 11.47: na drishta-purvam). Arjuna too confirms [...]
How the Gita describes the universal form
The Bhagavad-gita uses a distinctive structure for introducing the universal form. First, Krishna explains to Arjuna what he will be showing; then, Sanjaya explains to [...]
Gita 07.18 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Now Sri Krishna will describe that [...]
Why are we studying spirituality?
Why are we studying spirituality? - We now live in an age where education has become very structured and systematized, wherein educational success is measured [...]
Why the I can’t count solely on the eye
Why the I can’t count solely on the eye - Suppose a person steering a ship sees something small and shiny ahead. They overlook it [...]
How perception is an ethical act
How perception is an ethical act - We usually think of perception as a merely mechanical act; when some object comes within our visual range, [...]
The courage to take a hard look at ourselves
The courage to take a hard look at ourselves - A mirror helps us see how we look, or more specifically, see whether how we [...]