Arjuna – The Enquirer

Krishna, the Caste System, & the Gods

Krishna: “Everyone walks on my path, and I give each one the reward that they come to me for.” [Gita 4.11] Arjuna: “But it doesn’t seem that way. Many people seem…

Yoga – the “Art of Action”

“The scattered thoughts of fools rush towards the flowery promises of materialistic culture, thinking, ‘This is all there is.’ Their hearts are set on pleasure and paradise, in hopes of…

The Upside Down Banyan Tree – Gita 15.2

19 Aug 201119 Aug 2011

Overview The Bhagavad Gita gradually examined all different spiritual paths, explaining how they are interconnected and how they all culminate in the yoga of devotion – bhakti-yoga: the most potent…

The Three Modes of Material Nature

29 Jul 201129 Jul 2011

Bhagavad-gītā 14.5 sattvaḿ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛti-sambhavāḥ nibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam Material nature consists of three modes — goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes…

Making Sense of the Last 6 Chapters of Bhagavad Gita

I'll give a synopsis of all the chapters in the final section of Gita... The final 6 chapters share a common theme: how knowledge supports devotion. The idea is that…

A Spiritual Singularity of Oneness

20 Jul 201120 Jul 2011

When we are guided to see all the differently manifested living beings on one common platform, even when they are expanded in so many different ways, then we attain spiritual…

Spiritual Vision – Bhagavad Gita 13.27

यावत् सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वम्́ स्थावर-जńगमम् क्स्̣एत्र-क्स्̣एत्रज्ञ-सम्́योगात्तद् विद्धि भरतर्स्̣अभ yāvat sañjāyate kiñcit sattvaḿ sthāvara-jańgamam kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saḿyogāt tad viddhi bharatarṣabha yāvat — whatever; sañjāyate — comes into being; kiñcit — anything; sattvam — existence;…

Matter, Spirit… What’s the Difference?

The Bhagavad Gita is about what a person really needs to do to become perfectly fulfilled. The thesis is that a person is a fragment of God, therefore to become…

Devotion and Science

8 Jul 20118 Jul 2011

The 13th chapter of Bhagavad Gita is about science. It divides science into 3 divisions: The thing that is to be known (called prakriti or kshetra or jneyam) The entity…