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The Bhagavad Gita teaches that the discipline of speech involves much more than simply speaking truthfully. Along with truthfulness, it identifies three other qualities of speech: it should be non-agitating, beneficial, and pleasing or encouraging.
What happens when these qualities are absent, even though what we say is true?
When truth is spoken without sensiti...
One way to look at such verses is to remember that scripture is kalpataru. If it is to fulfill the desires of everyone, then it needs to fulfill even the desires of those who wish to become one with God. Just as there are verses that support the pious materialism that inspires people to perform rituals leading them toward svarga, there are also verses that are meant to facili...
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There are psychological, spiritual, and devotional reasons for forgiving ourselves.
Psychologically, as long as we do not forgive ourselves, we continue to hold on to resentment or even a desire to punish ourselves. These negative emotions contaminate the mind and can poison it long after the original mistake or its consequences have passed. Just as an u...
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First, there is no scriptural basis for the idea that we should always be strict with ourselves and lenient with others. It may be a useful rule of thumb in some situations, but it is not a scripturally mandated principle.
The Bhagavad-gita (12.13) states that the devotee is adveṣṭā sarva-bhūtānāṁ maitraḥ karuṇa eva ca—non-envious, friendly, and...
Bhagavad-gita 18.35 describes determination in the mode of ignorance through five mental habits that together provide a remarkably comprehensive picture of how thinking goes wrong and starts working against us instead of for us.
The first, svapna, refers to daydreaming or fantasizing, where we imagine a positive future without doing the work required in the present to ...