The Bhagavad Gita is a seven hundred verse conversation between Lord Krishna and the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. In the final moments before the war, Arjuna felt that the war wou ...
Read moreKrishna uses the word ‘guna’ at the beginning of the Bhagavad Gita, but the real explanation comes from 13th Chapter onwards. Krishna says, “Know that prakriti (nature) and purush (spirit) are b ...
Read moreContinuing with the theme of Tapa. It may be illuminating to meditate on how the Vedic seer approaches it. Its origin is in the eternal simultaneousness that was embedded in primal night manifested as ...
Read moreThe essence of the Bhagavad Gita is to attain internal equanimity and realise external harmony. Equanimity (samatva) is the crux of the preachings of every enlightened soul that has ever roamed this p ...
Read moreKrishna starts the Bhagavad Gita by saying that there was no time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these rulers of men; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be (2.12). This looks paradoxic ...
Read moreThe fundamental nature of the manifested (vyakta) is that it is perishable, whereas the un-manifested is imperishable. Manifested life forms take birth, they live for a certain period, and eventually ...
Read moreIn the context of senses (indriya) and sense objects ( indriya vishay), Bhagavad Gita says that when senses meet sense objects, polarities of pleasure and pain are generated. As a result, senses exper ...
Read moreOur senses (indriyas) are the gateways between the outer world of sense objects and our inner world. They play an important role in our understanding of natural principles of existence. That is why Kr ...
Read moreIn the face of exhaustion and dysfunction, optimism isn’t escapism—it’s resistance.There’s a quiet kind of strain that many people feel today—not just in moments of crisis, but in the rhythm ...
Read moreThere are many perspectives to understand the Bhagavad Gita. Once one perspective is understood, all other perspectives are understood as they are interconnected. Understanding the senses is one such ...
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