What detachment means and what it doesn’t mean
Detachment: Be cool-headed, not cold-hearted As we strive for spiritual growth, detachment is often emphasized as a vital virtue. However, detachment is frequently misunderstood. It’s [...]
Detachment: Be cool-headed, not cold-hearted As we strive for spiritual growth, detachment is often emphasized as a vital virtue. However, detachment is frequently misunderstood. It’s [...]
Bhagavad Gita 6.32 ātmaaupamyena sarvatra samaṁ paśyati yo ’rjuna sukhaṁ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṁ sa yogī paramo mataḥ "Who sees all beings as their [...]
Some people love to be the topic of gossip and that reveals more about their own mentality than about the gossiper's mentality. Generally speaking, we [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Now Sri Krishna will conclude this [...]
As each one of us humans is an irreducible individual, we all will have different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. This will sooner or later lead [...]
Boosting immunity boosting humanity - When caught in a pandemic, we wisely seek to boost our immunity. Simultaneously, we need to boost something just as [...]
How can we know when we are gossiping? - Most of us may agree that it’s not good to gossip. We may even believe that [...]
Has our technology become too strong for our morality? - In five minutes, we can access more obscenity than what our ancestors could access in [...]
Today's culture cherishes equality – reports of discrimination often trigger outrage. Yet even cursory observation of people shows that they are glaringly unequal in their [...]
Suppose someone walking on a road slips and falls into a manhole. If onlookers laugh without helping, that would be terrible. To laugh at others [...]
Boring people find people boring We all probably know some people who bore us to death. Nothing they say or do interests us – and [...]
Spiritual vision sees people not as philosophical categories but as conscious beings When we gain spiritual knowledge, our zeal to share it with others may [...]
Our pain is meant to be harvested not wasted Suppose we get a seed that tastes extremely bitter. Just when we are about to throw [...]
See ourselves as spiritual: When we face problems in life, we can respond more maturely and resiliently on understanding that at our core we are [...]
When people are in need and are helped, they receive the help eagerly. However, when they are needy but don’t feel the need, they don’t [...]
Some spiritual seekers think that to avoid bondage and to grow spiritually, they need to reject the world and give up all action. While this [...]
A foundational philosophical insight is that the material vision and the spiritual vision do not see alike. When we strive to gain spiritual vision through [...]
Expansion of consciousness is an oft-used term in spiritual circles. People seeking deeper fulfillment in life intuit that they can do so by expanding their [...]
Suppose one person tells another, “I care for you.” But suppose the first person is having food and the second person is hungry. The claim [...]
The Bhagavad-gita in its sixth chapter analyzes the process of ashtanga-yoga. While such yoga is nowadays seen primarily as a tool for shaping and strengthening [...]
In the Bhagavad-gita (02.11), Krishna chides Arjuna for lamenting the imminent death of his relatives in the impending war. Yet, when Arjuna’s son Abhimanyu was [...]