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)

it is in order to unify the consciousness of the disciple that the relationship exists.

The family has always been a symbol of unity and selfless love in spite of the serious problems that have afflicted it from time to time.

We have been so conditioned to search for happiness in sense-pleasure that defying these urges appears to be a denial of life itself.

When we attack other people, when we become a source of trouble to others, it is not because we want to add to their trouble; we have just become an object of trouble to ourselves.

samsara, ‘that which is moving intensely’ – being born, dying, being born again, dying again.

In the language of the Gita, not only elation and depression, not only pleasure and pain, but everything in life is a duality; and in order to attain samadhi, one of the magnificent disciplines taught by Sri Krishna is evenness of mind.

The mystics tell us that if we can only succeed in throwing away this mask which has become part of our face, the physical-psychical mask that we now call our personality, then all our magnificent capacity for loving, acting, and serving will come into our lives.

Yoga is the practice of meditation and the allied spiritual disciplines. When the senses are stilled, when the mind is stilled, when the intellect is stilled, when the ego is stilled, then the state of perfect yoga is reached.

The mystics say that it is time that is an illusion; eternity is the reality.