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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18

Home » Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18Chaitanya Charan2021-07-07T13:51:52+05:30
  • Chapter 18, Overview
    • Gita18-overview explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 01
    • Gita18.01 explained
    • Arjuna’s seventeenth question
    • The Gita’s seventeen questions at a glance
    • Restraint and renunciation are routes to detachment – bhakti is the fuel
  • Chapter 18, Text 02
    • Gita 18.02 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 03
    • Gita 18.03 explained
    • How to appreciate those who disagree with us
    • We may have to disagree, but we don’t have to be disagreeable
    • Don’t let disagreement degenerate into disrespect
  • Chapter 18, Text 04
    • Gita 18.04 explained
    • Don’t massage or pinch the false ego; pat it onwards
  • Chapter 18, Text 05
    • Gita 18.05 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 06
    • Gita 18.06 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 07
    • Gita 18.07 explained
    • Don't give up because of illusion – give up to come out of illusion
  • Chapter 18, Text 08
    • Gita 18.08 explained
    • Aversion to commitment is not detachment
    • Renunciation centers not on running away from the world but running towards Krishna
  • Chapter 18, Text 10
    • Gita 18.10 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 11
    • Gita 18.11 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 12
    • Gita 18.12 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 13
    • Gita 18.13 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 14
    • India's T20 World Cup Victory & Chokers' tag: Making sense with Bhagavad-gita
    • Don't limit God with your dreams
    • Gita 18.14 explained
    • How to plan in a mood of devotion?
    • Appreciating others’ achievement fosters extrinsic self-worth, appreciating their commitment fosters intrinsic self-worth
    • Fate is not a matter of faith, but our faith matters in determining our fate
    • Our role in doing things is contributive, not decisive
  • Chapter 18, Text 15
    • Gita 18.15 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 16
    • Gita 18.16 explained
    • How Krishna describes the vision of the seers
    • Does Krishna consider Arjuna to be a doer or a non-doer?
    • The notion of doership is not an illusion – the notion of sole doership is
  • Chapter 18, Text 17
    • Gita 18.17 explained
    • Enter the war, but don’t let the war enter you
  • Chapter 18, Text 18
    • Gita 18.18 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 19
    • Gita 18.19 explained
    • Why does Krishna discuss the modes so much?
    • Where we are determines what we see
  • Chapter 18, Text 20
    • How not to approach religious differences?
    • Gita 18.20 explained
    • Fostering tolerance by focusing on transcendence (Religious tolerance series 6)
    • How Krishna’s analysis of knowledge in the three modes matters for Arjuna
    • How to be moral without becoming judgmental
    • To resolve conflicts, begin with the 1% commonality, not the 99% differences
    • Animals have souls – they just don't have the consciousness to know they have souls
    • Unity comes not by blinding oneself to differences, but by seeing beyond differences
    • See beyond the diversity of forms to the unity of substance and purpose
  • Chapter 18, Text 21
    • Gita 18.21 explained
    • To see differences as fundamental and final is delusional
    • Passion polarizes positions and paralyzes discussions
  • Chapter 18, Text 22
    • The Netflix series Adolescence: a Bhagavad Gita perspective
    • "If you say yes I say no" - why we sometimes make irrational decisions
    • How meditation differs from obsession and frees us from obsession
    • Might we be narrow-minded?
    • How to make judgments without being judgmental
    • When winning an argument backfires ...
    • Why it’s easy to be narrow-minded
    • Beyond tolerating to appreciating (Religious tolerance series 4)
    • When knowledge increases ignorance … (From ignorance to knowledge series 5)
    • How to counter spiritual reductionism (Ethics & devotion series 6)
    • How our experience may increase our ignorance (Beyond black and white conceptions series 2)
    • When positive thinking affects our life negatively
    • How morality and moralizing affect our spiritual growth differently
    • Why people think that theism is unscientific
    • Just as bigotry can blind emotionally, ideology can blind intellectually
    • Science is the study of matter spirituality is the study of what matters
    • Technology may change our world for the better but let it not change our worldview for the worse
    • Fanatics don’t see how God is present everywhere; they see how God is absent everywhere
    • On disagreements and fanaticism
    • To become broad-minded know that reality is broader than what the mind shows
    • Fanatics don’t hold opinions - their opinions hold them
    • Knowledge in the mode of ignorance increases ignorance, not knowledge
    • Overcompensation doesn’t restore balance; it aggravates imbalance
    • Our mind makes us blind intermittently and colorblind incessantly
    • Ignorance makes people use reason unreasonably
    • Knowledge in ignorance is tiny, at best vastly tiny
    • Tune in to yourself to best tune in to the world
    • Are we meant to be characters in a cartoon show?
    • Don’t let materialist monomania mess your life
  • Chapter 18, Text 23
    • Gita 18.23 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 24
    • Gita 18.24 explained
    • Work not to run away from yourself – work to realize yourself
  • Chapter 18, Text 25
    • Gita 18.25 explained
    • When nothing is worth fighting for anything can provoke a fight
    • To treat our emotions as the only reality is to live in unreality
    • Work to live – avoid work that eats you alive
    • A respectable addiction is still an addiction
    • A moment of indulgence can cause a lifetime of repentance – beware
  • Chapter 18, Text 26
    • Enthusiasm vs over-enthusiasm
    • Gita 18.26 explained
    • Life in goodness is not life in slow motion
  • Chapter 18, Text 27
    • Gita 18.27 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 28
    • Gita 18.28 explained
    • The mind is a perpetual procrastinator – it postpones our resolutions to someday, then some decade and then some lifetime
    • We are defined by what we stand for, not what we stand against
    • Even if we can’t get over things, we can still get on with things
    • “One of these days” is none of these days
    • To be wistful is to be wasteful
    • Fretting is like overcooking a rotten vegetable in our head
  • Chapter 18, Text 29
    • Gita 18.29 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 30
    • Stick to your words, but don't be stuck with your words
    • When an action triggers fear...
    • Overcoming prohibitive cost
    • Fear paralyzes faith energizes
    • Taking things positively vs taking things nonchalantly
    • Why measurement matters for improvement
    • Gita 18.30 explained
    • How Krishna’s analysis of intelligence in the three modes matters for Arjuna
    • Mindlessly mindful?
    • How are fear and education related?
    • When is fearlessness a facade for foolishness?
    • How to improve our relationships
    • “Why don’t you enjoy the things God has provided?”
    • Intelligence vs intellect
    • Screen your inner screen
    • Intelligence is seen not just through aptitude but also through activity
    • Intelligence means to know which thoughts to contemplate and which to neglect
    • Don’t discriminate against discrimination
    • Guard against the impulse of the senses with the vigilance of the intelligence
    • Everything attractive comes from Krishna, but everything attractive doesn’t take us to Krishna
  • Chapter 18, Text 31
    • Gita 18.31 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 32
    • Are we connecting the dots or concocting the dots to connect?
    • Regrettable but not regretted decisions
    • When meditation seems like a fruitless struggle …
    • Get out of the intelligence in ignorance
    • Gita 18.32 explained
    • Are we being 'nonjudgmentally' judgmental?
    • Are we using our intelligence intelligently?
    • How to protect ourselves from the wrong the wrong-headed and the wrong-hearted
    • Why can’t some people see the obvious?
    • Why we remain strangers to ourselves ...
    • We rarely do things without a reason, but reason is rarely behind the things we do
    • Our intelligence is not like a fixed deposit – it is like a stock market share
    • To avoid the inner bad feeling, don't weaken conscience - strengthen willpower
    • Let technological literacy not lead to intellectual illiteracy
    • Don't treat a game like life or life like a game
    • Euphemisms of deception are expressways to degradation
    • Protect the conscience from being dumbed and numbed and dumped
    • Lewdness is not “boldness"
  • Chapter 18, Text 33
    • Gita 18.33 explained
    • What Krishna’s analysis of determination in the three modes means for Arjuna
    • To differentiate between resoluteness and stubbornness, consider content consequence and intent
    • Determination means to place our intention above our emotion
    • Determination means to decouple emotion from action
    • Increasing willpower – The only way and the best way
  • Chapter 18, Text 33-35
    • Fear looks backward faith looks upward
    • Catching opportunities or complaining about opportunities
    • Gita insights for New Year resolutions
  • Chapter 18, Text 34
    • Gita 18.34 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 35
    • What is the difference between Lamentation and Grief?
    • Why running from our past doesn't work
    • How to stop wasting our pain
    • Developing Resilience by Changing Our Driving Question
    • Inability vs. unwillingness: Facing challenges and understanding ourselves
    • Planning: how to be firm yet flexible
    • How to avoid becoming discouraged due to our mistakes?
    • Three differences between educational warnings about danger and fear-mongering
    • How worrying and meditating are similar
    • Anxiety — circumstantial vs existential
    • Nothing to be worried about worried about everything
    • Anxious mind sick mind — be patient
    • Anxious that you are anxious
    • Digital detox for anxiety management
    • Keep away from fear
    • Is fear a character defect
    • How facing fears decreases them
    • Anxiety is mind's reaction not our intention
    • Know the core above anxiety
    • Anxiety - not too much nor too little
    • Planning vs Worrying
    • Worrying vs Meditating
    • Antidote for anxiety
    • Live with fear not for fear
    • Don't run away from fear
    • Why is anxiety increasing in modern times?
    • When is a fear real & when unreal?
    • The difference between anxiety and fear
    • When fear paralyzes do THIS ...
    • How faith deals with fear
    • How responsibility counters anxiety
    • Anxiety – constructive vs destructive
    • When uncertainty causes fear Do this...
    • How deep breathing decreases fear
    • Be a warrior not a worrier
    • How to have courage amid fear
    • What is the cause of anxiety?
    • What's wrong with worrying about the world's problems?
    • Two ways to look at emotions
    • Destiny determines our situations, but we determine our decisions in those situations
    • When we feel discouraged
    • Be managers not damagers
    • Three levels of empowerment
    • Becoming Bitter or Becoming Better
    • Fear looks backward faith looks upward
    • Emotions: not commanded but cultivated
    • Catching opportunities or complaining about opportunities
    • How to stop worrying about problems
    • The right to be unhappy
    • When we feel powerless ...
    • Unmasking the sinister strategy of fear
    • Stopping the mind’s horror movie
    • How to balance destiny and responsibility
    • How to balance destiny and responsibility
    • Worrying about imaginary problems can be a real problem
    • Suppressing emotions vs repressing emotions
    • Gita 18.35 explained
    • Failing to learn from our failures?
    • Responding to adversity — Resentful? Regretful? Or grateful?
    • Thinking tanking thanking — moving from pessimism to optimism
    • How to deal with fear of failure
    • What forgiving ourselves means — and what it doesn’t mean
    • Whose respect are we trying to earn?
    • What is mental health? (Mental health series 1)
    • Does the world hate me? (Beyond black and white conceptions series 6)
    • Will negative imagination lead to self-fulfilling prophecies?
    • Two ways to deal with resentment
    • How the mind is a robber who pretends to be a well-wisher
    • How depressed desire leads to depression
    • How to prevent our past from controlling our present?
    • Are we making things worse than they need to be?
    • Who is at fault = who is responsible?
    • Three kinds of negative thinking — and why they all aren’t undesirable
    • Winning whining wining — or worshiping?
    • The things that hurt us = the things we think hurt us?
    • How to live amid danger
    • Why things seem to happen to us not for us
    • How to change our inner frequency
    • How to deal with fear of the future
    • Don’t just be remorseful — be resourceful too
    • We may be scarred but we don't have to be scared
    • Even if we can't flatten the pandemic curve we can flatten the panic curve
    • The mind makes us depressed and then makes us depressed that we are depressed
    • If we start dwelling on whatever our mind is thinking, our thinking starts stinking
    • When a long-awaited good thing happens be grateful that it happened not resentful that it happened so late
    • The mind is a persecutor who pretends to be the persecuted
    • To deal with fear, focus not on what if, but on what is
    • Self-pity makes feel-bad seem feel-good
    • Resilience comes when we accept what is unchangeable, but don't accept that everything is unchangeable
    • The night after a quake, the stars still shine in the sky - don't let the misery of your life blind you to the beauty of life
    • Complaining is no one’s birthright – and it has made no one’s birth right
    • Everything in history is not in memory; everything in memory is not in history – intelligence means to know what belongs where, and to keep it there
    • See memory not as an exhaustive guide to the past but as a constructive guide from the past to the future
    • Accepting our weaknesses takes courage – and so does accepting ourselves with our weaknesses
    • Worrying about the world's problems is often an excuse for not working on our own problems
    • Even if we have a million reasons to be resentful still resentment remains utterly unhelpful and can be horribly harmful
    • We can never start in our life unless we start with our life
    • To keep fighting battles that are already lost is to be lost
    • To put something behind us, we need to put something ahead of us
    • We don’t know the future but neither does our mind - its fears don’t forecast the future
    • Don’t pack what is back – the past – in your backpack
    • We feel stressed not so much because we are over-worked as because we are over-worried
    • Living resentfully is like driving with the brake pressed
    • If you get the thought that you can never resist temptation treat that thought as a temptation and resist it
    • Don't mess every new day with yesterday
    • Maturity means to acknowledge that no one is obliged to fulfill our needs
    • Stop whining that life is not fair – start working with life as it is
    • Don’t give your mind to people whom you wouldn’t give your time
    • The mind is a great storyteller, but what it tells are just stories, not realities
    • A season of grieving may be necessary, but a lifetime of grieving isn’t
    • Our journey needs to begin where we are, not where we ought to be
    • Worrying is a part of life’s job description, but it is not the whole job
    • The mind may give us a flashback, but we don’t have to turn back
    • Failure is not the enemy of success - it is the entry to success
    • Second-guessing ourselves doesn’t reflect caution – it reflects confusion
    • Life is too precious to be wasted in doing perpetual post-mortem operations
    • We can’t choose our past, but we can choose our memories
    • Don’t let hindsight hinder foresight
    • Fixing a leaking tank is more important than filling the tank
    • To have our needs met by being unhappy is unhealthy
    • Life’s misfortunes are like thorns – don’t press on them; pass through them
    • Worry is the interest we pay on loans we haven’t yet taken
    • In worrying about what all may go wrong, we go wrong
    • Live in the light of Krishna, not the shadow of death
    • Set your sight and don’t let phantoms deflect your flight
    • Our attachments reflect our capacity for determination
    • Learning is driven by purposefulness; lamenting, by pointlessness
    • Fear is not the problem – fear of what comes after fear is
    • Don’t beat yourself down – pick yourself up
    • Don’t let imagined problems become real
  • Chapter 18, Text 36
    • Gita 18.36 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 37
    • Self-improvement: The PIE we can’t have and the PIE we can have
    • How to change when we don't feel ready to change?
    • When our mind doesn't care for the things that matter to us
    • Feeling better or healing better?
    • Going beyond spiritual dumbness & numbness
    • The most productive work
    • The greatest obstacle to happiness
    • Things work together for good
    • Awesome or Wholesome?
    • When our mind doesn’t cooperate what can we do?
    • Gita 18.37 explained
    • When the light seems too bright …
    • How to face overwhelming problems
    • Aiming to be trouble-free? Think again
    • How to boost our self-esteem
    • When devotion doesn’t feel good ...
    • Beyond mindfulness to purposefulness
    • When morality feels like a burden ...
    • The way to a better future
    • What does growing up mean? - 2
    • When our interests aren’t in your best interests …
    • How we end up neglecting life’s important things
    • When we feel worthless …
    • Why seeking something worthwhile is better than seeking something wonderful
    • When the urgent seems important and makes us impotent
    • Why imposing equality backfires?
    • Is hurt = harm?
    • What do we need to be happier?
    • How to endure phases of tastelessness in bhakti
    • Without spiritual direction religious regulation seems like pointless restriction or even painful repression
    • We can’t always go outside but we can always go inside
    • If we wait till we feel inspired we will definitely wait indefinitely
    • See God’s love in the resources he provides for our spiritual evolution, not the resources he provides for our material gratification
    • The mind often recasts antipathy as inability - what it doesn’t want to do, it presents as if it can’t do
    • We have to risk going too far to know how far we can go
    • To savor what is most sweet, we often need to shed the most sweat
    • Learn to wonder and ponder, not wander and pander
    • Even if we can’t close the door to temptation permanently we can close it presently
    • Stop resenting your struggles start habituating yourselves to them – and they will start hurting less
    • Sensual pleasure feels fine but it comes with a fine
    • Fear not the loss of sensual pleasure – fear the loss of spiritual pleasure
    • Digging for gold requires dealing with dirt
    • Even if bhakti is not joyful, it is still fruitful
    • Let dreams be a spur for action, not a substitute for them
    • Bhakti is the treatment that transforms into a treat
    • Don’t go through the motions – go through to the emotions
    • Freedom to do what we like is not necessarily freedom – freedom to do what we should is
    • We can’t fly in the sky without breaking our shell
    • Let intelligence take from the poison phase to the nectar phase
    • Expect meditation to be challenging before it becomes comforting
    • Mantra meditation is like a workout that becomes a massage
    • Are we drinking poison to quench thirst?
    • Be cruel to be kind
    • Conviction and purification take us from the poison to the nectar
    • Lack of devotional appetite is natural yet unnatural
    • The Secret of Enlightened Enjoyment
  • Chapter 18, Text 38
    • Why aligning aspiration with determination is vital
    • When living in the present is taken to an extreme
    • How desire abducts and abandons us
    • Tackling impurity from indulgence to transcendence
    • Is sense pleasure imaginary?
    • Awesome or Wholesome?
    • Gita 18.38 explained
    • The problem with doing whatever we like
    • How free pleasures are not free ...
    • Contemplation on temptation changes our disposition from zero tolerance to zero resistance
    • When the mind believes something is enjoyable it stops evaluating whether it is actually enjoyable
    • The search for pleasure is often the source of the greatest trouble
    • Temptation buys us on an installment basis
    • Thwart the desires that titillate initially but torment eventually
    • Education is meant to inform and transform our imagination
    • Worldly enjoyment is the bait to worldly entanglement
    • Sense control will make us not deprived, but relieved
    • Focus on the present, but don’t fragment it from the future
    • The mind can make us give up the wonderful for the dreadful
    • To seek shortcuts is to be shortsighted
    • Be not alarmed by the presence of impurities; be heartened by the presence of the alarm
    • Sense gratification is a fascinating path to frustration
    • Poison kills on consumption, but passion kills on contemplation
    • Discover The Right Way to Enjoy our Right to Enjoyment
    • The human talent for misery
    • Material letdown and spiritual breakdown: The Twin Troubles of Transgression
  • Chapter 18, Text 39
    • Gita 18.39 explained
    • Why are mental health problems increasing? (Mental health series 3)
    • The pleasure of being miserable
    • The easiest way to fail is the worst way to fail
    • We have to fall asleep, but we don’t have to fall for sleep
    • Forgetfulness of life’s emptiness is not happiness
    • Ignorance makes the insufferable seem irresistible
  • Chapter 18, Text 40
    • Gita 18.40 explained
    • Use the modes to analyze, not criticize
    • The universality of the malady underscores the urgency of the remedy
    • Let others’ human failings not deny us our chance to overcome our human failings
    • Go beyond denial and dismissal to determination
  • Chapter 18, Text 41
    • Gita 18.41 explained
    • When we limit our challenges, we can challenge our limits
  • Chapter 18, Text 42
    • When being nice is not nice...
    • Two ways to avoid agitation
    • Gita 18.42 explained
    • To be responsible means to stop blaming the outer trigger for the inner trouble
    • Intelligence is the last defense against indulgence – and also the first defense
    • If we can’t ban sin from the heart, we can still banish it
    • Those who respect the command of God command the respect of the world
    • If we can’t shun senselessness, we can at least shun the senseless mind
  • Chapter 18, Text 43
    • Choosing to be resourceful
    • Does power always corrupt?
    • Gita 18.43 explained
    • Why Krishna states contrasting brahmana and kshatriya virtues in successive verses
    • Is war evil?
    • Overlords are meant not to lord it over others, but to lead others over to the Lord
    • Our expectation that nothing should come in our way, often comes in our way
    • Don't just be forceful – first be resourceful
    • The intention to serve makes the reproachable controlling mentality respectable
  • Chapter 18, Text 44
    • Gita 18.44 explained
    • Protecting cows protects the cow protectors from greed
  • Chapter 18, Text 45
    • Gita 18.45 explained
    • The world may not value our individuality but we can and should
    • Analyze disposition to clarify status not justify status quo
    • Focus on doing what you can, not on what you can't
    • Don’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree
    • When our vision changes from competition to contribution, life becomes a celebration
    • Don’t change the foot because the shoe doesn’t fit
    • Don't let identity politics blind you to your identity
    • Varnashrama uses the false ego in the service of the true ego
    • The resolution to the confrontation between reason and emotion lies in purification
    • Ending the perpetual u-turns in our quest for happiness
  • Chapter 18, Text 46
    • Gita 18.46 explained
    • How can Arjuna do his work as a worship?
    • How working with devotion prevents entanglement
    • Krishna’s intriguing third-person references to himself
    • How to use the material to reach the spiritual?
    • Three ways to see our abilities spiritually
    • How to assess the value of our work
    • Why spirituality isn’t world-rejecting…
    • The world is a resource to take us to the source
    • The best motivation for ambition is realization, not recognition
    • Devotion fosters absorption, not obsession
    • Devotion increases our self-worth through purification and our social worth through contribution
    • Seek God not just in the privacy of the heart but also the activity of the world
    • To offer our best, we need to discover our best
    • When we get out of ourselves, we find ourselves
    • Those who stay upset about what they don’t have waste what they do have
    • The material and the spiritual can be competitive, but they can also be cumulative
    • Be a spiritual worker, not a material shirker
    • Give the world your attention, but don’t give it monopoly over your attention
    • The value of our work is not determined by our work’s market value
    • Note consciously what you notice unconsciously
    • Complement spirit with spirituality for complete success
    • Preoccupation with occupation is not devotion
  • Chapter 18, Text 47
    • Gita 18.47 explained
    • Why Krishna urges Arjuna to stick to his natural duty
    • Compare yourself only with the person you were yesterday
    • If God had wanted you to be someone else, he would have made someone else
  • Chapter 18, Text 48
    • To guide effectively focus on others' potentials not their problems
    • Gita 18.48 explained
    • Should we expose things that don’t work?
    • How Krishna prepares Arjuna for his difficult duty
    • Do the ends justify the means? (Beyond black and white conceptions series 5)
    • Should education be realistic or idealistic?
    • Justice or just is?
    • Perfectionism is a serial killer in high heels
    • Learn to like the things we need to do to do the things we like to do
    • Don’t try to be too good for your own good
    • Forgive the unavoidable, avoid the unforgivable
  • Chapter 18, Text 49
    • Gita 18.49 explained
    • The more we give up palliatives, the more we seek curatives
  • Chapter 18, Text 50
    • Gita 18.50 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 51-53
    • Gita 18.51-53 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 52
    • Three benefits of fasting
    • Renunciation is an expensive business
  • Chapter 18, Text 54
    • Are nostalgia or utopia distracting us from meditation?
    • Gita 18.54 explained
    • To best defend our consciousness from the world, first raise it above the world
    • When we realize our deepest identity, we fulfill our highest destiny
    • Purity is not just a function of intention – it is also a fruit of devotion
    • In spiritual growth, bhakti is the process and the purpose
    • In the truth of who we are and what we love lies our deepest fulfillment
    • Enlightenment doesn’t terminate devotion, but culminates in it
    • Go beyond the blindness caused by shortage of light – and by its surfeit
    • The ceiling of impersonalism is the beginning of transcendental personalism
    • Spiritualization of emotions raises us from duality through equanimity to ecstasy
    • Devotion is a passion that is beyond passion
    • Relief and release – the two fruits of purification
    • Don’t waste time on the mind’s futile pastime: comparison
  • Chapter 18, Text 55
    • Gita 18.55 explained
    • In bhakti, understanding and practice are not just sequential, but also symbiotic
    • To understand Krishna, stand under Krishna
    • Claiming that the unknown is unknowable is claiming to know the unknown
    • Familiarity is not understanding
  • Chapter 18, Text 56
    • Gita 18.56 explained
    • Our past explains our inclinations, but it doesn’t excuse our actions
    • Bhakti-yoga is not exclusive but is comprehensive
    • The summit that reaches down to the trenches
  • Chapter 18, Text 57
    • Gita 18.57 explained
    • Intelligence may not be a decisive weapon but it is an incisive weapon
    • Go beyond the shelter of the intelligence to the shelter of Krishna with your intelligence
    • Seek shelter to wear the armor, use the armor to feel the shelter
    • Fighting vices is like fighting weeds: we are always slightly behind
  • Chapter 18, Text 58
    • How God can use dead ends
    • Why exhaust ourselves by believing in our worries when we can energize ourselves by believing in God’s promises?
    • What truth will our life story demonstrate?
    • Three things we can do when we feel helpless
    • Grateful for unanswered prayers
    • Be faithful not fearful
    • Pray to gain purpose not pleasure
    • How to not be discouraged by our imperfections
    • What to pray for amid distress
    • What to expect from prayer — 2
    • What to expect from prayer — 1
    • What Krishna’s assurance about bhakti-yoga means for Arjuna
    • Where is God amid problems?
    • Why helping others doesn't always help others
    • The size of our problems is inversely proportional to the size of our purpose
    • Seek God's help for doing his will, or you will need his help to get out of the trouble you get into because of not doing his will
    • Problems are like burdens whose weight increases with the attention we give them
    • Look for the good in all situations, even in situations that don’t look good
    • Even if we can’t change what we live with, we can change what we live for
    • When you feel like giving up, start looking up – not sentimentally, but spiritually
    • Stronger than what faces us is what graces us
    • Even if we can’t see adversity as opportunity we can still see opportunity in adversity
    • Problems may get stuck inside us but we don't have to get stuck inside them
    • Stop blaming your outer world start building your inner world
    • Krishna doesn’t promise a stormless sea – he provides an unsinkable ship
    • Even when bhakti doesn’t make life easier it makes us tougher
    • If we prayed as much as we worried we would worry a lot less
    • The less time we have for our problems the less problems we have
    • Wrongdoing is not just the wrong we do but also the right we don’t do
    • When life hurts don’t let the mind increase the hurt
    • Focus not on life’s unfairness; focus on Krishna’s mercifulness
    • If we neglect what we are saved for, we gravitate towards what we were saved from
    • Even if we can’t be grateful for all situations, we can be grateful in all situations
    • Even if our past seems like a prison, Krishna is the key to unlock it
    • We are not products of our situations; we are products of our decisions
    • See problems as opportunities to expand our conceptions of the scope of Krishna consciousness
    • We don’t determine God’s job description – he determines ours
    • See God’s love not just in relief from problems, but also in relief amidst problems
    • Faith is not just certainty - it is also openness to possibility
    • We may be taken aback, but we don’t have to go back
    • We can’t delete our memories, but we can choose what we remember
    • Being grateful in general is like being married in general
    • Be not fretful or fearful – be faithful
    • The essence of bhakti is not moving backward or forward, but moving upward
    • Service attitude is the torch that lights the next step amidst the darkness of perplexity
    • Greater than the world’s power to hurt is God’s power to heal
    • Problems that can’t be solved need to be dissolved
    • When you shake an apple tree, don’t be blind to the falling of mangoes
    • Our willingness is more important than our willpower
    • Meditation shrinks our problems by increasing our awareness of Krishna’s greatness
    • Don’t believe the phantoms created by the mind – believe Krishna
    • To reduce pain to punishment is to underestimate God’s purpose
    • Illusion drives us compulsively; Krishna draws us compassionately
    • Be not allured by the blame game or the claim game – stay focused on Krishna
    • Life may push us into the company of problems, but it cannot force us into their control
    • Truth doesn’t depend on history; history demonstrates truth
    • Casual ties make us casualties
    • Empower your thoughts to break free from their tired and tiring avenues
    • Life determines our problems; we determine their size
    • Krishna offers us shelter, not a hiding place
    • When Krishna doesn’t understand…
    • Are we seeking counsel from our fears instead of from Krishna?
    • The blows that break the shell of our isolation from Krishna
    • Devotion takes us beyond being hunted and haunted
    • “Got big problems?” Krishna is bigger
    • Those who don’t spare time for meditation squander time in frustration
    • Choose to be holy now – don’t wait for a holy cloud to form around your head
    • Seek the true tool to your self before you seek to be true to yourself
    • With Krishna, we flourish; without Krishna, we perish
    • Our fear of insignificance traps us in insignificance
    • Stop the hurry, worry, sorry story – seek Hari
  • Chapter 18, Text 59
    • Gita 18.59 explained
  • Chapter 18, Text 60
    • Gita 18.60 explained
    • We are bound to act according to our nature — what does this mean?
    • Do we choose our interests or do our interests choose us?
    • Self-acceptance should open the door for self-improvement, not shut the door
    • Imprecision in identifying our enemies increases our enemies
    • Go beyond excusing yourself and accusing yourself to realizing your self
    • We have to live our lives ourselves and live with ourselves
  • Chapter 18, Text 61
    • What kind of traveling companion is God?
    • Transform our wandering into a pilgrimage
    • How remembering Krishna makes the mind peaceful
    • Gita 18.61 explained
    • Are we asking God the wrong question?
    • Let go — the present is silently rich
    • God takes our potential seriously do we?
    • God loves us as we are, but he loves us too much to let us stay as we are
    • With God, everyone is accepted, but everything isn’t acceptable
    • Those who are not humble are humbled
    • We are bound by our nature but we are not bound to our nature
    • Even if we lose hope with ourselves Krishna doesn't
    • Krishna has faith in our potential – let’s have faith in his potency
    • Our mistakes are not Krishna's plan but Krishna's plan accommodates our mistakes
    • Our vision is functional and valuable, but not necessarily factual
    • Krishna is our director – and our redirector
    • Fanaticism is caused not by excessive devotion, but by inadequate devotion
    • Krishna is not just our destination – he is also our companion
    • Krishna doesn’t cause our worldly wandering – he frees us from the cause of that wandering
    • Every trial is a teacher
    • Cellular reception depends on position; transcendental reception, on disposition
    • Learning from life is not just a matter of individual creativity; it is a feature of universal reality
    • Krishna is not doing things to us; he is doing things for us
    • The first purpose of life is to discover the purpose of life
  • Chapter 18, Text 62
    • The difference between consciousness and conscience
    • Gita 18.62 explained
    • What made us the way we are?
    • When we are praying, know that God is hearing us better than we are speaking
    • Even our best race to the end will require the Best’s grace in the end
    • When time becomes unfavorable don’t become unfavorable to the Lord beyond time
    • We need to forgive ourselves to give ourselves to Krishna
    • Surrender makes us not just peaceful but also purposeful
    • See your past not as a curse but as a course
    • Focus not on life's specific problems - focus on life's universal purpose
    • We are always directed, but we can choose our director
    • Inner calm activates the intercom to God
    • Surrender may frustrate our surface desires, but it fulfills our deepest longings
  • Chapter 18, Text 63
    • How to help others use their freedom wisely
    • Does surrender necessitate checking the brain at the door of the house of God?
    • Can we help everyone?
    • Gita 18.63 explained
    • Why imposing our spirituality on others is wrong
    • Is our need to nurture aiding or impeding those whom we nurture?
    • What tolerance implies and what it doesn’t (Religious tolerance series 3)
    • Krishna demonstrates how there’s no force in love
    • How to make difficult decisions
    • What does it mean to “follow our heart”?
    • Understanding the relationship between love and freedom
    • When the tendency to doubt helps
    • What is the difference between philosophy and ideology?
    • When what we do doesn’t seem to matter …
    • Are soldiers heroes or victims?
    • Concern for others or concern for power over others?
    • Does devotion suppress our individuality and intelligence?
    • How to share knowledge effectively
    • Philosophical education teaches us how to think, ideological indoctrination tells us what to think
    • The Gita equips the thoughtful to become more faithful and the faithful to become more thoughtful
    • Contemplation is the foundation of action; without contemplation, what we do is not action but reaction
    • The denial of free will converts God into devil
    • We can’t deprive others of their right to be wrong but we can empower them to use that right rightly
    • Freedom is not just an opportunity – it is also a responsibility
    • No loss is as disempowering as the loss of faith in our free will
    • We can help the unable, but not the unwilling
    • Spiritual wisdom is to be mulled over, not skimmed over
    • We can’t survive for long on secondhand faith
    • Don’t superimpose the negativity of proselytizing on sharing
    • See people as subjects with volition, not objects for indoctrination
    • Others can’t push if we stop pushing ourselves
    • Doubting is a self-deluding form of believing
    • The use of force to convert doesn’t expand faith – it reduces faith
    • We don’t have any choice except to believe in our power of choice
    • Those who base their faith on miracles confuse the supernatural with the Supreme
    • Scripture doesn’t take away our freedom of choice, but gives us choice of another freedom
    • Our destiny is not sealed – as long as we don’t seal ourselves with it
    • Scripture doesn’t deprive us of freedom; it protects us from depriving ourselves in the name of freedom
    • Life is not a fixed match, but Krishna can help us fix it
    • Don’t give up the intelligence; go beyond the intelligence
    • Krishna walks with us, but not for us
  • Chapter 18, Text 64
    • Beyond stereotypes of a wrathful God
    • Gita 18.64 explained
    • Are we included in Krishna’s circle of love?
    • Krishna’s most emphatic declaration of love in the Gita
    • Does the Gita’s conclusion contain a self-contradiction? (Balancing independence and guidance series 5)
    • When we feel devotionally weak ...
    • How can we reach others with our words?
    • Regulate emotion with reason animate reason with emotion
    • Following scripture centers not on legalistic conformity, but on loving reciprocity
    • Exposition enters easiest through an envelope of emotion
    • Outreach is not just about expression of the truth, but also about impression with the truth
    • Transformational teaching conveys not just intellectual meaning but also emotional meaning
    • When we discuss a subject close to our hearts, our hearts come close
    • The world of love manifests through the words of love
    • The heart of knowledge is the knowledge of the heart
    • Loving unconditionally doesn’t mean being unconditionally liberal; it means being unconditionally available
    • Love for Krishna is a love that doesn’t appoint to DIS-appoint
    • The blend of encouragement and enlightenment brings empowerment
  • Chapter 18, Text 65
    • Gita 18.65 explained
    • How Krishna’s love is seen in his repetition — and in the variation in his repetition
    • Do Krishna’s third-person references in the Gita point to some higher Divinity other than Krishna?
    • How Krishna’s relationship with us differs from our relationship with him
    • How can we differentiate between lust and love?
    • Devotion needs to be expressed to be experienced and enriched
    • God is present in our heart, but our consciousness is usually not present there
    • Repetition emphasizes – and so does the emphasis in the repetition
    • The best way to fix the mind on Krishna is to take up responsibilities in his service
    • Free love is a self-contradiction
    • Realization comes by riveting to the relationship, not the ritual
  • Chapter 18, Text 66
    • How to keep our promises
    • When we feel unseen by God...
    • Are we good enough for God?
    • Hopeless not to be helpless
    • Gita 18.66 explained
    • How devotional surrender is different from what we think it is
    • Is the Gita’s conclusion meant only for Arjuna?
    • How surrender to Krishna protects Arjuna from wrong actions
    • Does Krishna contradict himself in the Gita’s conclusion?
    • How Krishna concludes by enthroning the path of divine love
    • Why does Krishna follow his call for ‘surrender’ with ‘go’ not ‘come’?
    • How Krishna is both universal and specific
    • The cyclicity of the Bhagavad-gita (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 3)
    • Does devotion transcend ethics? (Ethics & devotion series 7)
    • When does devotion exempt us from karmic consequences? (Ethics & devotion series 4)
    • Does bhakti make one transcendental to ethics? (Ethics & devotion series 1)
    • How is the concept of dharma universal?
    • Let your practices make you a spiritual fruit, not a religious nut
    • The essence of education is enlightenment engagement and encouragement
    • Love is the limiter of freedom – and its fulfiller too
    • Unconditional love doesn't mean that whatever we do is loved; it means that whatever we do, we are loved
    • Seek not just spiritual expression – seek a spiritual expressway
    • Focus not on letting go of things – focus on taking hold of your thoughts
    • Bhakti is not a rejection of human values, but a progression above them
    • The Gita doesn’t reject dharma, but raises dharma to its summit
    • Focus not on freedom — focus on love
    • The Gita is a dharmic book that asks us to give up dharma – or does it?
    • To endure karma, embrace dharma
    • Surrender is not giving up but letting go
    • The perfection of dharma is not to fall in line with cosmic law, but to fall in love with the trans-cosmic lover
    • We may be unqualified, but we are never disqualified
    • The generosity of bhakti is in countering, not condoning, sin
    • Krishna focuses on where we want to go, not where we have been
    • Whatever karma may get us to, Krishna will get us through
    • Love values, but value love more
    • Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion
    • The bond that sets us free
    • The Gita is Categorical and Rhetorical
    • Surrender is not about giving up, but about going up
    • The Gita centers on neither rituals nor doctrines but on a love affair
    • The Bhagavad-gita enthrones the path of love
  • Chapter 18, Text 67
    • Gita 18.67 explained
    • Why‌ ‌does‌ ‌Krishna‌ ‌restrict‌ ‌the‌ ‌sharing‌ ‌of‌ ‌his‌ ‌message‌ ‌of‌ ‌love?‌ ‌ ‌
    • Why is Gita wisdom told to be both distributed and hidden?
    • Before Krishna can entrance our consciousness he needs an entrance to our consciousness
    • Beating our head against a wall is not humility – it is stupidity
  • Chapter 18, Text 68
    • How to share wisdom effectively
    • Gita 18.68 explained
    • Going beyond counting our blessings
    • Compassionate action = compassionate disposition?
    • Helping one person may not change the world but it can change that person's world
    • The summit of spiritual realization is best attained by sharing spiritual realization
    • When we distribute what we have, we appreciate what we have
    • We can’t give what we don’t have, but in giving we can have
    • In bhakti, to talk is also to walk the talk
    • Devotion is deepened, not depleted, by distribution
    • The purpose of preaching is not just propaganda but also propagation
  • Chapter 18, Text 69
    • Gita 18.69 explained
    • Focus not on the reach of your outreach; focus on how much you reach Krishna through your outreach
  • Chapter 18, Text 70
    • Gita 18.70 explained
    • Seven levels at which Gita verses can be understood
    • Two views of the role of intelligence in bhakti
    • Don’t obstruct bhakti with an intellectual filter – or with an anti-intellectual filter either
    • The Gita is not just didactic but also therapeutic
    • Four stages in Gita study: Veneration, Comprehension, Application, Transformation
  • Chapter 18, Text 71
    • Gita 18.71 explained
    • How Krishna’s concluding words reveal his loving eagerness that everyone connect with the Gita
    • From your place, at your pace, access the grace
    • The words will change us – provided we don’t change the words
  • Chapter 18, Text 72
    • Gita 18.72 explained
    • How Krishna’s last verse reveals his loving concern for Arjuna
    • Taking responsibility to help others choose wisely (Balancing independence and guidance series 7)
    • How to give guidance while respecting people’s independence (Balancing independence and guidance series 3)
    • Before a prescription can inspire action, the diagnosis must inspire conviction
    • Ekagrata is not just a state of attentiveness; it is also a level of consciousness
    • The Gita empowers Arjuna to win his inner war and enrich himself with wisdom
    • Using our ears better helps us better use the thing between our ears
    • Being correct is not enough; we need to be correctly understood
    • Learn to see Krishna’s love with the eyes of knowledge
    • Ignorance is bad, but illusion is worse
    • Surrender is not rejection of the intelligence, but its perfection
  • Chapter 18, Text 73
    • How faith and surrender can empower us to face challenges
    • How devotional surrender brings enrichment not resentment
    • Whether a message is short is not as important as whether it is sufficient
    • Bhagavad-gita as the LED light for our life
    • Does surrender mean that God manages our life for us?
    • Surrender is not passive but active
    • Who is writing our life's story
    • How God’s pleasure relates with what is best for us
    • How to do God’s will when we don’t know what it is
    • Does doing God’s will mean giving up our independence?
    • Does doing God’s will mean doing something unnatural?
    • How God’s will relates with our moral reasoning
    • How Krishna expands Arjuna’s understanding of his choices
    • How Arjuna’s words reveal the Gita’s sadhana and sadhya
    • What do Arjuna’s last three words in the Gita tell us about the Gita
    • What the three endings of Krishna’s message tell us about Krishna
    • Handling the gun of doubt (Dealing with doubts 4)
    • Four stages in managing desires — Desire Management series 9
    • Why are we studying spirituality?
    • Do emotions reside in the mind?
    • How purpose makes pain bearable 
    • When God doesn’t seem to help us ...
    • Are we boosting our thought-energy regularly? ​
    • Why our energy goes down — and how to restore it
    • When pride masks itself as humility
    • When dealing with the distressed focus not on their karma; focus on your dharma
    • The world doesn't need people with answers as much as it needs people who are the answers
    • Resenting reversals locks us in ignorance, accepting reversals opens the door to transcendence
    • Spiritual knowledge is meant to make us devotionally fit not intellectually fat
    • We can't eliminate suffering, but we can cultivate a purpose that makes suffering bearable and meaningful
    • Even if we can’t understand Krishna we can still stand under Krishna
    • Look up and things will look up
    • Conscience without intelligence is blunt intelligence without conscience is numb
    • Krishna transforms our brokenness into wholeness when we surrender
    • Humility paves the way from perplexity to clarity
    • Distress is not due to the nature of nature but due to our disharmony with nature
    • Comparing various paths up a mountain can’t take us up the mountain
    • The Gita enlightens and lightens our life-journey
    • Grace is not life’s sugar coating; it is life’s substantial reorienting
    • Union of wills requires not the breaking of will but the building of will
    • Devotion is a dexterous dance between dependence and determination
    • The power to compel is not the power to convince
    • Don’t rate spiritual wisdom using the laughter test
    • Assimilation and application are essential for transformation
    • The word will change the world by changing the will
    • Intellectual gluttony causes spiritual lethargy
    • Human will is founded and fulfilled in the divine will
    • Don’t just read the Gita – heed the Gita
    • Don’t get back at God – get God back
    • Surrender means to do what we can, with what we have – now
    • Send resentment to retirement
    • The sacrifice of life, the life of sacrifice
    • Don’t let information overload make relevance irrelevant
    • Treasure Krishna’s message more than his miracles
    • The Gita is an intellectual adventure with an emotional climax
    • Questioning our questions
    • Ask not “Is God with me?” Ask “Am I with God?”
  • Chapter 18, Text 74
    • Even if we have to live with our mind we don't have to live for our mind
    • Gita 18.74 explained
    • Whose words we hear matters but whose words we hold dear matters even more
  • Chapter 18, Text 75
    • Gita 18.75 explained
    • Count your blessings – and make your blessings count
  • Chapter 18, Text 76
    • Might life be better if we pursued something other than happiness?
    • Gita 18.76 explained
    • Jollity that is a mile wide and a millimeter deep is not spirituality
    • Emotional restraint paves the way to emotional enrichment
    • Love of words in the words of love
    • Are our thoughts impoverishing or enriching us?
    • The two wonders of Gita wisdom
    • What are our thoughts giving us:frustration or jubilation?
  • Chapter 18, Text 77
    • Gita 18.77 explained
    • How the Gita demonstrates its teaching
    • Enlightenment culminates not just in comprehension but also in wonder
    • Sharing spiritual knowledge is about not just delivery but also discovery
    • Make the mind wonder spiritually, not wander materially
    • Meditation is not a dulling duty – it is a thrilling opportunity
  • Chapter 18, Text 78
    • The dynamics of the human-divine partnership
    • Two things that we should never underestimate
    • When God says no
    • How is morality present wherever the Gita is followed?
    • How the Gita’s last verse reveals the power of divine love
    • How the Gita’s conclusion integrates its contextual and universal dimensions (Appreciating the Gita’s flow 7)
    • From worthless anxiety to worthwhile anxiety
    • God is always ready to work with us, are we ready to work with him?
    • Don’t ask God to fix your problems, ask God to fix you so that you can fix your problems
    • Possessing wealth is not the problem; being possessed by wealth is
    • The Gita’s purpose is not to proclaim God’s position but to transform man's disposition
    • Spirituality unleashes our purity and our potency
    • God doesn’t need us to harmonize with him – we need to harmonize with him
    • The Gita’s concluding prophecy answers its starting enquiry
    • Surrender to God is not the suppression of human will, but its perfection
    • The two endings of the Gita point to the same end
    • Surrender is expressed through not just helplessness but also readiness
    • Beware of the mind’s divide and rule strategy
    • The determination to serve Krishna doesn’t just herald victory – it is victory
    • Surrender to Krishna is not a pronouncement of defeat, but a precursor to victory
    • Seek a happy ending that has no ending
    • The Gita guarantees ultimate success

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