Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12
- Chapter 12, Text 02
- Infatuation with form is not the problem – infatuation with temporary form is
- Closeness unites more than oneness
- Chapter 12, Text 04
- The enlightened vision and the benevolent disposition
- The impersonal stereotype of impersonalists militates against personlism
- Chapter 12, Text 05
- Impersonalism perpetuates the padlock on the heart
- Don’t just push the mind towards the spiritual – let the spiritual pull the mind too
- Chapter 12, Text 06
- Chapter 12, Text 07
- Change the stories you tell yourself about yourself
- Go beyond the beyond
- Are we holding on to a straw instead of a lifeline?
- Rise from defiance through reliance to transcendence
- If we hold on to Krishna long enough, nothing else will hold on to us long enough
- Don’t come up with the truth; come up to the truth
- Krishna is not a passive point of concentration – he is the proactive fount of compassion
- Seek not to grasp God – seek to be grasped by God
- Immigration to the spiritual world happens not by infiltration but by invitation
- Sensual hope deludes, spiritual hope delivers
- Chapter 12, Text 08
- The happiness of devotion is not a destination but an eternal progression
- Live for Krishna; live through Krishna; live in Krishna
- The kingdom of God is more than a kingdom
- When we become at home in Krishna, we go home to Krishna
- The appreciation we get for our service is not as consequential as the absorption we get in our service
- How humility is non-different from curiosity
- Chapter 12, Text 08-10
- Chapter 12, Text 08-12
- Chapter 12, Text 09
- Feeling is a springboard for chanting, but chanting is also a gateway to feeling
- Map changes – and change maps
- Aspire not for feelings but for relationship
- Anticipate spontaneous devotion, but cultivate conscientious devotion
- The fruit of meditation is taste for meditation
- There’s more to devotion than rules, not less
- We need a starter of desire more than a stopper of desire
- Catch the current of emotion – don’t be caught by it
- Contemplation is the natural result of attraction and contemplation naturally results in attraction
- For getting Krishna, forgetting Krishna is fatal
- Bhakti has to be a choice before it can become a calling
- Obsession isn’t just a distractor from absorption; it is also a demonstrator of absorption
- Bhakti-yoga takes our relationship with Krishna from familiarity to comfort to desire to need
- Bhakti practice leads to attraction to Krishna through repetition, purification and revelation
- To tune out the mind, tune in to Krishna
- Even if we can’t be transfixed, we can still be fixed
- Devotion is not just emotion – it is conscious continuous cultivation
- The test of success in bhakti is taste for bhakti
- Is our body fast becoming an ego feast?
- What happens to our desires when we become enlightened?
- How to see desire as a blessing, not as a burden?
- Chapter 12, Text 09-10
- Chapter 12, Text 10
- Krishna wants our presence more than our presents
- If we can’t offer our heart to Krishna, then we can offer what’s in our heart to Krishna
- Dedicate your external to the eternal internal, not the ephemeral internal
- To have fixity in purpose, we need flexibility in pace
- Chapter 12, Text 11
- Krishna accommodates even those who can’t accommodate him
- How elevating and expanding of consciousness are dissimilar and similar
- Chapter 12, Text 12
- Chapter 12, Text 13
- Loving as much as our heart longs
- Are we praying for others or preying on others?
- Be grateful for everything we can live without
- Love that is too big to allow room for hatred in the heart
- Let’s love Krishna too much to be fanatical
- Devotional culture sets us free from our emotional cocoons
- Cherish compassion not just as a position or an emotion, but as a foundation
- Seek not scapegoats; seek not to become martyrs – seek to stay as servants
- Be not sentimental or judgmental – be transcendental
- Love first the creator to love best the creatures
- Be childlike, not childish
- Chapter 12, Text 14
- Let dissatisfaction propel us vertically, not horizontally
- Connection comes best by a combination of commitment and contentment
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- Chapter 12, Text 16
- Be adept to adopt and adapt
- Devotees left with nothing are right with Krishna
- Renunciation is not a function of frustration – it is a fruit of realization
- Chapter 12, Text 17
- Devotion is the emotion that takes us beyond all other emotions
- The Gita calls for not emotionless living, but purposeful living
- See love in the expression of emotions – and in the concealing of emotions too
- Krishna is the stabilizer of material emotions and the stimulator of spiritual emotions
- Chapter 12, Text 18-19
- Chapter 12, Text 19
- What is the Home of Our Thoughts?
- Devotion kindles an inner drive that is beyond jeers and cheers
- Spirituality provides us our own inner sanctuary
- Belonging that leads to blissful being
- The spiritual may be unfamiliar but it’s not unnatural
- Change the home page of your mind’s browser
- Make God the center and the circumference of your life
- Cultivate a tender heart, but cover it with a thick skin
- Don’t treat others as a waste-basket for your words
- Our satisfaction is determined more by the location of our consciousness than the location of our house
- Chapter 12, Text 20