The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Vols 1–3 (The End of Sorrow, Like a Thousand Suns, To Love Is to Know Me) (The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, 1)

This is the great art of nonviolent resistance, where you love and respect everyone, but you will not allow anyone to exploit you, because it is bad for that person just as it is bad for you. Wherever we find a wrong situation – in our personal life, in our country’s life, or in our world’s conflicts – we all have a duty to work to correct it.

The Gita is a forceful call to action – but to action in which the right goal is pursued by the right means.

Right from the early days of marriage, or of any relationship, we must try to forget about rights and remember duties if the relationship is to last.

One of the ways to tackle inertia and expedite its transformation into rajas is never to delay anything. “Immediately” is one of the favorite words of the mystics, who live completely in the present.

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of rewards, nor should you long for inaction.

The word avyakta implies that our only purpose in life is to reveal the divine personality that is concealed in all of us. The

In meditation, even though we meditate regularly in the morning, if we do not take care to pull out the weeds that are rampant in the garden of the mind, spiritual seeds are not likely to thrive.

The purpose of visiting a spiritual teacher is to be reminded that there is a destination, there is a supreme goal in life, and we all have the innate capacity to undertake the journey.

Mahatma Gandhi, who studied Sanskrit while in jail, pointed out that the Sanskrit word sat has two meanings: the first is ‘truth,’ and the second is ‘that which is.’ When asked for a definition of God, Gandhi said, “Truth is God. God alone is and nothing else exists.”