»» Deliberation: When we deliberate what our true values are, what we would like to be remembered for at the end of our life, what we would like to leave as our legacy, we soon see that most of the passions and obsessions that we give in to – playing video games, channel-surfing on TV, gossiping, for example – are so trivial that we wouldn't care for them in the long run. When we take such introspective deliberation deeper, we realize that scriptural wisdom offers us an inner torchlight that shows us our deepest values. We are all thirsting for love – to love and to be loved. This thirst doesn't come from the hormones of our body or the neurons of our brain, but from our innermost core – our soul. Gita wisdom shows how we can fulfill our soul’s longing for love by directing it towards God, Krishna, and through him to everyone else, seeing them as family members in the one divine family. Deliberation reveals the integrity, the dignity and the glory of our most cherished aspirations, and gives us the determination to lead a life that honors those aspirations.
»»Devotion: What deliberation clarifies intellectually devotion confirms experimentally. When we choose to offer our love to Krishna by the universal time-honored process of bhakti-yoga, we soon start relishing the higher happiness of divine love. This happiness is so enriching that we realize by contrast that our past pursuits for happiness through materialistic indulgences were so impoverishing – they provided a few moments of pleasure preceded and succeeded by hours and years of impoverishing craving. Bhakti provides a steady fulfillment that keeps increasing as we grow spiritually.
