05
Oct
Krishna Explains Austerity of Body, Speech, and Mind
Krishna’s teaching on austerity: context and key term
In the Bhagavad Gita (chapter 17, verses 14–16) Krishna distinguishes three forms...
05
Oct
Krishna Explains Sacrifice in Three Modes
Krishna’s teaching: sacrifice read through three modes
In the Bhagavad Gītā Krishna frames sacrifice as more than fire rituals: yajña ...
04
Oct
Krishna Explains Food in Three Modes
Krishna’s teaching in context
In the Bhagavad Gītā (17.8–10) Krishna speaks about food—āhāra — and sorts it into three kinds according ...
04
Oct
Krishna Explains Faith in Three Modes
Context: Krishna’s teaching on faith
In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna discusses many aspects of spiritual life, including the nature of fa...
04
Oct
Arjuna Asks About Faith of Different People
Opening context: Arjuna’s question in the field of dharma
In the middle of the Kurukṣetra dialogue, Arjuna asks a precise practical qu...
04
Oct
Krishna Encourages Living by the Scriptures
Krishna’s voice about scripture: a brief context
In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna speaks as a teacher in the midst of the Mahābhārata, add...
04
Oct
Krishna Explains the Fate of the Demonic
What Krishna says about the “demonic”
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna addresses human nature as a spectrum of qualities. In chapter 16, ...
04
Oct
Krishna Declares the Gates of Hell: Lust, Anger, Greed
Krishna’s “three gates” in the Gītā
In the Bhagavad Gītā (chapter 16, verses often cited as 21–23), Krishna identifies three gateways ...
03
Oct
Krishna Explains the Demonic Nature
Context: where Krishna speaks about the demonic
Krishna’s most sustained account of human character as divine or demonic appears in the...
03
Oct
Krishna Describes the Divine Qualities
Context: where Krishna speaks of divine qualities
The description of Krishna’s divine qualities appears most directly in the Bhagavad ...