The Quest for Shreyas
In the three decades that I’ve been studying the Bhagavad Gita, I’ve gone through a series of feelings for Arjuna, the Pandava hero and […]
Category: Living the Bhagavad Gita
Equanimity and the end of slavery – a dialogue
Question: How do I overcome anger and resentment? I have been depressed most of my life, have been on medications and in therapy for […]
Surrender.. A tale of birds and snakes
The central theme of all spiritual traditions is surrender, the giving up of this person that we think we are. It can be said […]
What do you really, really want? (A dialogue)
Question: I have been on this spiritual quest for many years and have a working understanding of liberation. I have read all the books, […]
Action and Inaction, Doing and Nondoing
On the path of karma yoga, the crux of existence comes down to how we perform actions at any given moment. On the surface, […]
The Evolution of Karma Yoga
For students of the Gita, it can seem that karma, bhakti, dhyana and jnana are sort of separate “paths” leading to the Divine. One […]
The Thing About Desire
In the last post in the Living the Bhagavad Gita series, we saw that no matter who we are, our desires are fall into […]
Universal Desires, Reincarnation and Liberation
The ashrama system based on guna + varna was designed to fulfill the four basic categories of desires of human life: 1. Dharma, the […]
The War Within
The armies have been assembled, the choices made. On the appointed day at the appointed time, the armies face-off on the battlefield of Kurukshetra […]
The Choice
In the previous post, we understood the context of the Bhagavad Gita and how we find ourselves on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.. Now let […]