E186 - Calling the next few verses "mind-boggling", the doctor, Ajuna, and the Gita begin to show us how to calm our minds and block out the noise of the world so we can focus on Brahman. Controlling your intake and conserving the power of your senses and mind, helps you transform your convictions towards your desires into higher spiritual values. Often the best way to start is to focus on those higher values we see in others.

E185 - That which holds the truth ... Can you move towards self-realization without following the scriptures? A lot depends on what you worship. Our faith in this world is expressed as our actions

E184 - The doctor provides an introduction to Chapter 17 which focuses on techniques to better your life and move towards self-realization. We know what is right and what is wrong, and we know what we like and dislike. In this chapter, we begin to deal with reconciling our desires with our spirituality.

E183 - The doctor introduces us to the Triple-Doored Gateway to Hell. Desires become binding, and biding desires become gree and greed becomes anger. Spiritual people have given up this triad, but controlling just one of the three can help abate the others and lessen your negative qualities.

E182 - In this life, we too often focus on the perceiver and not the perception. We focus on our sense organs and not our spirituality.  In this episode, we re-examine the difference between us (our Atman) and our bodies (matter).

E181 - Arjuna talks about the intellect and the thought process of those who are controlled by their negative qualities. The doctor tells us that money only brings the pleasure of the sense organs, which spawn insatiable desires. He also explains that selfish and immoral actions create mental agitation, suffering, and sorrow. Experiencing this mental disturbance is actually hell. Hell is not a place where one is sent to be punished. It's important to remember we are punished BY our actions not for them.

We are Brahman and we need nothing but we continue to desire as our meant and intellectual attitudes are too often determined by our never-satiated passion for our desires.

Those who are controlled by "demonic" or negative qualities find their search for pleasure is endless and they chase desires that are impossible to fulfill. They are consumed by false pride and arrogance, false and evil ideas, and they occupy themselves with impure resolve. The doctor reminds us that "demons" in this case aren't the same as the definition of demons we usually consider, and it's important to note that not all "demons" show up in our lives with horns.

The doctor outlines a typical self-view and worldview of a person who does not work to diminish his negative qualities as outline by Krishna in these most recent verses and describes how to elevate these views. Most notably the doctor describes how people controlled by their negative qualities often project these negative qualities onto the rest of their world.

The Doctor talks about Arjuna describing more of the negative qualities that can lead us from spiritual wealth and towards bondage to this world and our desires and attach us to our sense organs.