- Chapter 01, Text 01
- Please free me from the selfishness that leads to blindness (1.1)
- Self-deception - The difference between imposed blindness and chosen blindness
- Gita 01.01 - Explanation 1
- Gita 01.01 - Explanation 2
- Gita 01.01 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Why did Vidura in the Mahabharata not join the Pandavas?
- How each word of the Bhagavad-gita’s first verse is pregnant with meaning
- The cause of fights — a deeper examination
- Why does the Gita begin with Dhritarashtra’s words not Krishna’s or Arjuna’s?
- Why the Gita begins with Dhirtarashtra’s words
- Why is the book called Bhagavad-gita when it contains words other than those of Bhagavan?
- Three kinds of blindness in the Gita’s first chapter
- How we all can be dangerous be we strong or weak
- Attachment is the inability to say no, whatever the cost
- When we are attached to someone we don’t care much for them; we care much more for what they think about us
- Detachment is absence of emotional dependence not absence of emotion
- Just because something is not our fault doesn’t mean it is not our responsibility
- The world’s darkness prevents perception, the heart’s darkness perverts perception
- If we don’t give up our attachments voluntarily, we will have to give them up involuntarily
- The Gita is not a spatial martial narration, but is a universal spiritual revelation
- Detachment doesn’t make us hardhearted – attachment does
- A self-answering question points to factors beyond the self-evident
- Will we have to lose everything before we lose our blindness?
- Chapter 01, Text 02
- Gita 01.02 - Explanation 1
- Gita 01.02 - Explanation 2
- Duryodhana-what made him evil?
- How the Bhagavad-gita’s battlefield setting demonstrates its core teaching (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 6)
- Chapter 01, Text 03
- Gita 01.03 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.03 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.03 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Be fearless not tactless
- Chapter 01, Text 04
- Gita 01.04 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.04 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.04 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How perception is an ethical act
- To mistake the hilarious to be malicious is ridiculous
- We may be theists nominally and yet be atheists essentially Gita 01.04
- Living with Krishna in disposition is more important than living with him in location
- The world is pointless without Krishna, not that Krishna is pointless without the world
- Chapter 01, Text 05
- Gita 01.05 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.05 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.05 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 06
- Gita 01.06 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.06 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.06 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- When getting into new things, know how to get out
- Chapter 01, Text 07
- Gita 01.07 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.07 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.07 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 08
- Gita 01.08 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.08 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.08 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How Duryodhana’s speech reveals his mentality
- Attachment makes the absent present
- Chapter 01, Text 09
- Gita 01.09 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.09 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.09 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Hating the wrongs done to us blinds us to the wrongs done by us
- Chapter 01, Text 10
- Let my plans not blind me to your plan (1.10)
- Gita 01.10 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.10 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.10 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Avoiding the Duryodhana delusion
- What went wrong with the great materialist dream?
- Chapter 01, Text 11
- Gita 01.11 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.11 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.11 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 12
- Gita 01.12 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.12 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.12 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 13
- Gita 01.13 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.13 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.13 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 14
- Let me remember that my life story is a part of your story (1.14)
- Gita 01.14 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.14 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.14 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Krishna’s remarkable first appearance in the Gita
- How re-envisioning the Gita can help us relish it more
- Krishna is a God who respects human intelligence and individuality
- Chapter 01, Text 15
- Gita 01.15 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.15 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.15 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 16-18
- Gita 01.16 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.16 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.17 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.17 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.18 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.18 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.16-18 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Focus on the cause that brings us together not on the conditions and conditionings that push us apart
- Chapter 01, Text 19
- Gita 01.19 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.19 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.19 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Why Arjuna’s refusal to fight was like a mental knock-out blow for his army
- To be assertive we sometimes need to be aggressive adequately and adeptly
- Chapter 01, Text 20
- Gita 01.20 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.20 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.20 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Even a go-getter needs to know where to go and what to get
- Chapter 01, Text 21
- Gita 01.21 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.21 – Explanation 2
- How the Gita’s initial plot twist increases the appeal of its central message
- Why the I can’t count solely on the eye
- Chapter 01, Text 21-22
- Gita 01.22 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.22 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.21-01.22 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- The Gita’s triple use of ‘Achyuta’ (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 4)
- Chapter 01, Text 23
- Gita 01.23 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.23 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.23 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How to act wisely?
- Chapter 01, Text 24
- Gita 01.24 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.24 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.24 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- The Gita's setting reflects not logical absurdity but metaphysical urgency
- Getting opportunities is providence, grabbing them is diligencef
- Express devotion by endeavoring for excellence in service
- Chapter 01, Text 25
- Gita 01.25 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.25 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.25 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Krishna’s only words in the Gita’s first chapter
- The Gita’s starting and ending usage of Partha (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 5)
- Chapter 01, Text 26
- Gita 01.26 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.26 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.26 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 27
- Let the world's turbulence point me to your transcendence (1.27)
- Gita 01.27 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.27 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.27 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Why did Arjuna feel overwhelmed at Kurukshetra but not at Virata?
- Get rid of misplaced guilt
- Those who reduce misery to misfortune miss their potential for spiritual growth
- Chapter 01, Text 28
- Gita 01.28 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.28 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.28 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- What Arjuna saw changed how he saw
- Our caliber is seen not just when we give our best but also when life gives us its worst
- Transforming a battlefield into a classroom
- Chapter 01, Text 29
- Gita 01.29 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.29 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.29 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How could Arjuna speak when he couldn’t even hold his bow?
- Don’t waste your pain
- Revealing our feeling is the beginning of healing
- Might our worst fear point to our best hope?
- Chapter 01, Text 30
- Prepare me for the times when nothing makes sense (1.30)
- Gita 01.30 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.30 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.30 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Seeking guidance from Krishna
- How to deal with trauma
- Was Arjuna’s refusal to fight due to fear of his death?
- How sorrow points us toward spirituality (Why the Gita’s first chapter matters 5)
- The QUEST acronym (Why the Gita’s first chapter matters 1)
- How dejection can inspire a spiritual connection
- How to gain insight into complicated situations?
- What does growing up mean?
- Material breakdowns or spiritual breakthroughs?
- Just as our body needs physical nutrition our soul needs metaphysical orientation – a sense of place and purpose in the world
- Hold your plans lightly not tightly
- Intelligence means to understand how the mind makes us misunderstand
- As long as staying where we are remains bearable, we rarely move forward
- Mental blocks block far more than road blocks
- To solve problems, first ensure that the problem-solver is not a problem-aggravator
- Before playing your part, understand what play you are a part of
- Material adversity is a spur to transform spiritual opportunity into existential necessity
- Entrust the reins of your chariot to Krishna
- Perceive the way before you pursue the way
- To grow through problems, go beyond the circumstantial to the existential
- Chapter 01, Text 31
- Gita 01.31 – Explanation
- Gita 01.31 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- The Gita is a book of theology for the purpose of therapy
- Chapter 01, Text 32
- Gita 01.32 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.32 – Explanation 2
- From the specific to the universal (Why the Gita’s first chapter matters 3)
- Three levels of tension in the Bhagavad-gita
- Chapter 01, Text 32-35
- Gita 01.33 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.33 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.34 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.34 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.35 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.35 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.32-0.1.35 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Krishna’s instruction is not disruptive, but restorative
- Cultivate the intelligence to ask questions – and the courage to question those questions
- Chapter 01, Text 36
- Gita 01.36 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.36 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.36 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- The tension that tore Arjuna apart
- Don’t treat Krishna as a showpiece; let him show how to put the pieces of life together
- Chapter 01, Text 37-38
- Gita 01.37 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.37 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.38 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.38 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.37-38 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How Arjuna’s vision evolves in the Gita
- Chapter 01, Text 39
- Gita 01.39 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.39 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.39- Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- How the Gita’s first chapter reveals Arjuna’s qualification for receiving spiritual wisdom
- What Arjuna’s fears of social breakdown reveal about him
- How the unexpected reveals the unknown …
- Chapter 01, Text 40
- Gita 01.40 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.40 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.40- Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 41
- Gita 01.41 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.41 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.41 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 42
- Gita 01.42 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.42 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.42 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Chapter 01, Text 43
- Gita 01.43 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.43 – Explanation 2
- What Arjuna knew about the soul — and what he didn’t
- Gita 01.43 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Hell is never forever – God’s love is
- Chapter 01, Text 44
- Gita 01.44 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.44 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.44 - Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- Choose the self-definition that is eternal and factual, not fickle and fallible
- Chapter 01, Text 45
- Gita 01.45 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.45 – Explanation 2
- Gita 01.45- Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
- No time to think? (Why the Gita’s first chapter matters 4)
- What defines who we really are?
- Don’t give in to a death wish — give it the death sentence
- Being saintly is not a substitute for being sensible
- Matter has no intent, but intent matters
- Let the example of power come after, never before, the power of example
- Chapter 01, Text 46
- O Lord of my heart, let me never lose heart (1.46)
- Gita 01.46 – Explanation 1
- Gita 01.46 – Explanation 2
- Understanding the message of silence
- How the Bhagavad-gita’s first chapter spotlights the power of the Gita’s message
- Why Duryodhana’s illusion remained whereas Arjuna’s was removed
- How Arjuna’s plight reflects a universal human predicament
- From the specific to the universal and back to the specific (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 2)
- How to see negative emotions positively
- Are we devaluing our life?
- Without inner knowledge, outer knowledge can become useless
- Inability to face life’s challenges may diminish us, but unwillingness to face life’s challenges will demolish us
- Never make irreversible decisions based on reversible emotions
- We are always full of thoughts but we aren’t always thoughtful
- To lose the will to fight is to lose the fight
- Battles are often lost or won outside the battlefield, inside the mind
- The Gita’s message is not just specific and historical, but also generic and universal
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