Chapter 16 attempts to characterise our potential nature as good or bad, divine or demonic

Body, mind and soul are elements which many would use to explain what it is to be a human. This sloka spotlights the soul.

Body, mind and soul are elements which many would use to explain what it is to be a human. This sloka spotlights the soul.

Often yogis talk about the state of equanimity and how we can learn to face and accept both success and failure in the same way.

The hell of self-destruction for the soul – such drama! I imagine a happy soul, peacefully wandering its path

Here we see Krishna telling Arjuna that the path of the yogi is the one to strive for…

Well let’s just remove the idea of great and common men, there are better words and phrases these days.

We experience our world through our senses – our sight, our hearing, our taste, our smell, through our skin in our touch, taking this information from the outside world inwardly we attach feelings and judgements and craft our experience of life.

Whilst anger can protect and keep us safe when we are under threat, there is plenty of scope for the seed of anger to be watered regularly in the whirlwind of modern day living…