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The next chapter (after Karma Yoga) is called, Karma Sanyasa Yoga, where Krishna says that sanyasa is not giving up activity but not getting caught up by the results of the activity. Let go and Rej...

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Arjuna attempted to run away from it and hide. Krishna says, ‘Face it! There is no way you can get rid of it. Face it. Understand the reason for it. If you understand the reason for it, then you ca...

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The salient feature of the last chapter (Bhagavat Gita) – the 18th Chapter – is after saying all this, and taking Arjuna through the whole course, the last chapter Krishna says, surrender everythin...

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Therefore the importance of bhajans, kirtan , going to places where other people worship and going on pilgrimages, all lead you to the stimulation of the emotional parts of your minds, for opening ...

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Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress. And not finding that in the present conditioned mind, try t...

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So what I’m saying is that irrespective of whether you are an intellectual or what normally can be called a non-intellectual, irrespective of this condition, the most important condition to find th...

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If the mind is made up of thoughts and thoughts are always vibrating, moving - sometimes up, sometimes down, constantly in motion; that movement of thought or the waves of thoughts are known as vri...

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The first Chakra – the mooladhara – represents prakrithi, the solid earth or solidity. The next one – the swadisthana, which is silvery and which is shaped or symbolized by the crescent moon – repr...

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You see, it is very simple. When we are little infants, we are helpless.. Even if we have to go to the other room – somebody has to lift us and put us there. We can’t even go to the toilet. Somebod...

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We can go anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. So, the only way, according to the Gita and also according to people who have walked on this path at least to some e...

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This crescent moon is also called Soma. Therefore Shiva is called Somashekhara- one who keeps or retains Soma. Soma has two meanings. One – is the moon, you have the physical moon. The other is, th...

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Those of us who do pious acts, charity, sacrifice themselves for others thinking that is the work one should do, really win the human world! But, they are not free of desire and, therefore, they re...