Chapter 07, Text 15 Archives - Chaitanya Charan Das, Bhagavad Gita ISKCON

We may sometimes feel sorry for ourselves because of not having any great gifts as some others have. We may feel, “If only I had better looks or better memory or better speech fluency … or better whatever, I would have achieved something great in my life.” However, great gifts don’t guarantee great contributions. Some [...] The post Great gifts don’t guarantee greatness appeared first on Chaitanya Charan Das, Bhagavad Gita ISKCON.

“Work is worship is the central teaching of the Bhagavad-gita.” So claim many people. If they were right, then wouldn’t it make the creature that works extremely hard, the donkey, the Gita’s role model?   But the Gita doesn’t consider the donkey as its model. Of course, it (05.12) urges us to cultivate equal vision [...] The post Those who make donkeys the Gita’s role models sentence themselves to donkey-like roles appeared first on Chaitanya Charan Das, Bhagavad Gita ISKCON.

We human beings have an intelligence more advanced than our nonhuman fellow beings. This developed intelligence enables us to think beyond the immediate issues that occupy the animals: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. We can ponder the ultimate issues: the meaning of existence, the source of creation and the supreme goal of life. Unfortunately, some [...] The post Those who dismiss the invisible as insubstantial dissipate their lives in the insubstantial appeared first on Chaitanya Charan Das, Bhagavad Gita ISKCON.