Does God come from our imagination
God does not come from our imagination; our imagination comes from God, and it can take us to God as well as away from God. [...]
Gita 07.15 explained
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Now the question will come up [...]
Great gifts don’t guarantee greatness
We may sometimes feel sorry for ourselves because of not having any great gifts as some others have. We may feel, “If only I had [...]
Are needles determining our needs?
All of us have so many desires to fulfill: desires for better dresses, gadgets, cars, homes, jobs. Even when we authentically need these things, the [...]
Those who make donkeys the Gita’s role models sentence themselves to donkey-like roles
“Work is worship is the central teaching of the Bhagavad-gita.” So claim many people. If they were right, then wouldn’t it make the creature that [...]
Those who dismiss the invisible as insubstantial dissipate their lives in the insubstantial
We human beings have an intelligence more advanced than our nonhuman fellow beings. This developed intelligence enables us to think beyond the immediate issues that [...]
By living for animal pleasures, we violate our human rights
The Bhagavad-gita (07.15) uses the word mudhas, meaning asses, to refer to those unfortunate people who violate their own human rights. Our society exalts as [...]
The Bhagavad-gita is open-minded, not empty-minded
The Bhagavad-gita presents an open-minded worldview that integrates all people, no matter how diverse their values, goals and paths. According to their level of spiritual [...]