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Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense …

This process of knowledge is sometimes misunderstood by less intelligent men as being the interaction of the field of activity. …

As for the knowledge outlined here, the items may be analyzed as follows. Humility means that one should not be …

Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others …

Tolerance means that one should be practiced to bear insult and dishonor from others. If one is engaged in the …

Simplicity means that without diplomacy one should be so straightforward that he can disclose the real truth even to an …

Cleanliness is essential for making advancement in spiritual life. There are two kinds of cleanliness: external and internal. External cleanliness …

Steadiness means that one should be very determined to make progress in spiritual life. Without such determination, one cannot make …

False ego means accepting this body as oneself. When one understands that he is not his body and is spirit …

One should try to understand the distress of accepting birth, death, old age and disease. There are descriptions in various …

As for detachment from children, wife and home, it is not meant that one should have no feeling for these. …

Happiness and distress are concomitant factors of material life. One should learn to tolerate, as advised in Bhagavad-gītā. One can …

Naturally, when one is adapted to the spiritual way of life, he will not want to mix with materialistic men. …

As far as self-realization is concerned, it is clearly stated here that bhakti-yoga is especially practical. As soon as there …

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.11) this is explained. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam. “Those who are actually knowers of …

Beginning from practicing humility up to the point of realization of the Supreme Truth, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, this …

jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣyāmi yaj jñātvāmṛtam aśnute anādi mat-paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad ucyate

I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. Brahman, the spirit, beginningless and subordinate to …

The Lord has explained the field of activities and the knower of the field. He has also explained the process …

The Supreme Lord as the Supersoul is also stated in the Vedic literature (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.16) to be pradhāna-kṣetrajña-patir guṇeśaḥ, …