Please restore divine order inside me and outside me (4.08)
Bhagavad Gita 4.8 paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge "To protect the righteous, to reward the just, To shatter the wicked, [...]
Let me express my love for you with the entire being (3.30)
Bhagavad Gita 3.30 mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṁnyasyādhyātma-cetasā nirāśīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ "Offer all your deeds to me, With mind absorbed in spiritual identity. [...]
Let your smiling amid my suffering strengthen my faith (2.10)
Bhagavad Gita 2.10 tam uvāca hṛṣīkeśaḥ7 prahasann iva bhārata senayor ubhayor madhye viṣīdantam idaṁ vacaḥ "The Lord of the senses spoke with a gentle [...]
Please free me from the selfishness that leads to blindness (1.1)
Bhagavad Gita 1.1 dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva kim akurvata sañjaya "Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: On Kurukshetra’s righteous field, Where warriors stood [...]
Gita 02.07 – Explanation – 1
Gita 02.07 Seek First To Understand The Question To Best Understand The Answer Audio Link 1: https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-02-07-seek-first-to-understand-the-question-to-best-understand-the-answer/ kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṁ [...]
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) [...]
Turn to God not just for answers; turn to God as the answer
The Bhagavad-gita (7.19) declares that the enlightened surrender to Krishna, knowing him to be the ultimate reality and the embodiment of the fulfillment of all [...]
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 remembering Krishna makes the mind peaceful
In the Bhagavad-gita [18.61], Krishna directs the wandering of all living beings. Does this mean he also directs the wandering of our minds? After all, [...]
Recognizing our most dangerous enemy and our essential protector
If we have an enemy who wants to destroy us, then we will be alert to the danger and try to protect ourselves. However, if [...]
How does humility differ from low self-esteem?
Humility differs from low self-esteem because the two lead us to value different, even opposite, things. When we suffer from low self-esteem, we start thinking [...]
Disliking ourselves is not humility
Every culture glamorizes certain models of beauty, wealth, ability. Many people compare themselves negatively with those models, deem themselves inferior and inadequate, and even start [...]
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 humility protects us from the ego’s trident?
Our ego often acts like a trident that pierces us with three prongs: grandiosity, blame and shame. Grandiosity: When we set out to achieve something, [...]
Are we giving too much time to our mind?
Suppose we know certain people who talk too much and waste our time. When we meet them, we will politely but firmly restrict our [...]
How to deal with the crazy mind?
How to deal with the crazy mind? Suppose a crazy psychopath has taken a child hostage and is using that child as a shield against [...]
How to know if we are standing for God?
Many people want to or claim to stand for God. That means they want to represent God and to challenge those who malign [...]
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 [...]
When life ruins our makeup …
If unseasonal rain ruins a celebrity’s makeup, then how they actually look becomes exposed. Makeup can generically refer to the carefully crafted appearance that people [...]
Why things seem to happen to us not for us
We sometimes feel, “Good things rarely happen to me, but bad things happen repeatedly. Things happen to me, never for me. If only [...]
How to deal with our inability to resist temptation
Suppose a person is so sick as to not have the strength to lift even small objects. We won’t condemn them for being weak; we [...]