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Bhagavad Gita, Commentary - Chapter 9, Secret of Secrets

Secret of Secrets

Logic can never lead you to Self-realization. Dissolution of logic will. Devotion and trust are the keys to this dissolution.

  • Swamiji, you talked about the difference between questions and doubts and how Arjuna's questions change into doubts. Can you elaborate on this, please?
  • How can we create trust in Swamiji? How can we drop doubts about doing what we want to do with our hearts when our heads keep asking questions?
  • When you tell us to ignore the material world and focus on the energy behind matter, it is difficult. Whatever we see is matter; we do not have the sensitivity to see the energy. How to go beyond material manifestation?
  • What does Krishna mean when He says, 'Follow Me, I am the supreme Godhead?'
  • You said that we should move from the form to the formless in worship. However, some religions totally oppose this and consider form worship barbaric. Can you please explain this?
  • Why are there so many rituals? Why do people do rituals in the first place? Are they in any way related to spirituality?
  • I am unclear even after you explained, the purpose of rituals. We see so many things happening in a temple. So many pūjās and prayer rituals are done in a temple. Even in the home, people do pūjā. What is the need to do so many things? I can pray to Existence directly. Why are we doing so many things? What is the concept of pūjā?
  • How can we differentiate our desires from what we have borrowed from others?