Krsna's Teachings

Now here we have people asking God for all sorts of stuff and God granting them or just not even giving a whiff of it at all to some others. So you may ask why does he give some and not give others? First and foremost let me tell you that the God that you speak about is some deity of some kind who is a giver of handouts and not an almighty that you would think of. The Supreme Consciousness that we talk about which cannot be quantified or qualified is not at all visible or a doer also. He just does not react or give some opinion at all. Here if I say 'He', it does not mean the masculine He at all. I just have to address that something so I am calling that 'He'.Coming back to the verdict called answers given by God. Let me assure you He does not give any answers at all. He is not even an observer or a witness as it is believed. If some people are dying or some weird stuff is happening, He never interferes at all. The wrong or the right happens since it is wrong or right a...

Love is such a mis-used word in life that we say it so casually for every silly and stupid thing and misuse it with every other person. The word signifies a very deeper feeling but see how it gets used and check out its different connotations here. A mother says to her child that she loves him/her. A husband or wife says to their partner the same word. A boy says to his girlfriend and a girl says to her boyfriend the same. A man says to his dog the same and calls out to his best friend the same. Now assess the feelings that this word evokes in these different situations and you will understand that we are not talking about the same emotion at all. The responses are different for each one of these situations, then why do we have to use the same word or misuse it so much. I wish the languages have a different word for each of these emotions and expressions and convey the correct meaning. The words can lead to a very difficult situation if we use it in the wrong context. So let us start a...

Have you noticed there are musicians who start playing the instrument even before they can talk or read music? Have you also noticed that there are strange people in this world who have talents which others are in awe of and wonder many a times as to how they are able to perform those amazing feats? Considering that they have never been exposed to that instrument before, how come they are so adept at using it, performing on it or doing miraculous things with it? The idea lies in our past 'vasanas' or tendencies which exist in the new born. We carry with us the impressions from the past lives which reveal us the talent we have. It should not be a strange phenomenon since all of us have the tendencies which we have brought from some past life of ours. So we have child artists, musicians, painters, writers and others too. But what I experienced was something that I could never fathom till it was revealed to me by my invisible Guru. After I got up from a strange illness, I took to ...

In life we are always facing some situations which bring us joy and a lot of them bring sadness. The ratio would be higher on the unhappiness side. When we experience these simple joys, we wish they could be prolonged and stretched for a longer duration. Take the case of a child, when the candy comes to an end he wants it to go on. We also wish that the accolades we received at office goes on for a longer duration. But we soon realize that these do not last. We are again facing the barrage of sadness and sorrows in life. When we have a job we are constantly cribbing that we are getting a raw deal and when we get a newer job we like it the first few days and then it seems like we have been pushed from the frying pan into fire. In relationships also we are happy in the beginning and then it starts to all go awry. We expect the partner to do as per our wishes and desires and he expects us to conform to his ways of life. The disconnects are many. These are due to our expectations and desir...

Sometime back someone asked me how can these Guru's act in the following ways? They get caught in a sex scandal and some get caught on video talking of taking bribes,some of having 10's of politicians in their pockets and some other boasting of a billion students, some talking of being the greatest yoga Guru and so on. So do you expect the great one to behave in a particular way to conform to your method of thinking or having a decorum as prescribed by you? Do you believe that there is a special code for the Guru to behave? If you ask me about it, I will tell you that they may have their quirks and behavior patterns. Some indulge in sexual acts and some talk of amassing wealth. That is their lookout and way of living. So why do you want to go to such a Guru? Is it because of some great mans introductions or or some other benefits that you are getting from him? Maybe you have something to ask from Him that you went to Him in the first place. Maybe you thought there are good loo...

I have often wondered if we could disconnect the man that was Krishna to the God that He represented. No one would have had the capacity to handle 16108 wives if He would be a man but then why would a God want to handle 16108 female ego's? One one side religion teaches us to be pure and non promiscuous and here we have a God who breaks the first rule of the game. He has numerous affairs with married women-The Gopi's! We should not be deceitful in nature and here we have a God full of deceit and treachery.He told Arjuna to shoot at his Guru(Bhishma) behind his back and tell lies to the other Guru(Dronacharya) and kill him also. He lifts mountains(Govardhan) and shields the people from the deluge, but allows the deluge to gulp his kingdom down in Dwarka! He brings his Guru's(Sandipani's) son back from the dead but cannot do anything for his own race, when they all die fighting each other. He can change anything and everything for all his devotees, but he cannot convince o...

I came across a comment where the seeker asked "How can we test and know a true Guru?" This is written for those who are in touch with Guru's or are seeking one. First and foremost just ask yourself these questions- Does spiritual knowledge exist in books? Am I interested in knowing some body contortion exercises or am I truly a seeker? Do I need to join a gym or some Guru who charges me less to do the same yoga at a lesser cost? If I need to understand Pranayam or some other breathing exercise, do I need an expert? Does the Guru whom I want to go to boast of a million students and when do you think will I get a chance to meet that Guru alone and that too more often? Is he trying to sell some ayurvedic or some such preparations to one and all? Does he enrol me for a class and tells me to enrol a few more in that class? Does he take part in political or social activities? Does he have ambitions about being the only God in this world and sell his photographs by millions? D...

I came across a blog where the lady asked why do we have to celebrate some festival or the other? First of all the reason why we should celebrate is not for our own sake but for the reason the day is there. We celebrate Independence day because we got that, Gandhi jayanti for the Great Persona's day, Diwali for defeat of evil, Xmas for the birth of Jesus and so on. Similarly we celebrate our own birthday and anniversaries too, even the day we met our s/o's .The celebrations have nothing to do with the festivities but we adapt according to the ways of the world. There was no loud music earlier but music like shehnai and dholaks were played. The elders were respected and bowed down to. There were hardly any fireworks but now there are and we light fireworks. Can we tell the Chinese not to light then during their festivities? Or the special playfulness at Halloween? We have celebrated Ganesha in a sarvajanik(community) way in Mumbai, where the youngsters gather funds from one and ...

I have met a lot of people who consider God as a casual acquaintance. Whenever the need arises to ask for some favor they stand in front of His image and pray fervently so that He grants them their wishes. Once they are granted they forget Him till the next wish arises in mind. Or if they get into another muddle or trouble. How mean can a person be? He only thinks of God as an when the desires come up! I have seen so many of them who will take up a prayer book and attend the place of worship only during the season. So what does it say about the person-in Hindi we call such a person "Matlabi"! We go to our dear ones only when we have to attend some family functions or religious ceremonies. The rest of the year these same folks are missing from the rolls. But we attend the television very regularly, the newspaper, the laptop, our lovers, spouses, children, office, vehicles, and you can name a host of stuff and people whom we care for that we remember and talk to them or wish th...

Now I was watching a video posted by an atheist about debunking the claim of believers of Gods. I was asked by my disciple how can we accommodate these people and don't they get punished by God? Here is a story to tell you how all these religions and atheism and agnosticism works. All the people in that group are blind and they come across an elephant. One of them touches the trunk and says it is like a hose pipe, the other touches its ear and says it is like a big tree leaf, then the next touches the legs and says it is like a tree trunk, one touches the tail and says it is like a rope. Now they are not wrong at all since it is their individual perspective from their handicap point of view. So also God is seen by different people as per their individual tastes and observations. The others who guide them also give their own versions about God. Now if we have a person who does not want to believe in anything at all, he too has his own view point which cannot be discounted at all. he...

Now here I was telling my disciple about this world being unreal and full of disturbing stuff and a creation of Maya, the delusive power of God. She was unable to co-relate to it so I took some simple examples from our daily life to tell her how much it is unreal. I asked her what she ate last night and she told me she ate an ice-cream which was very yummy.She was under the impression like most of us that it is made from milk but I told her that it is made from vegetable oils and she was aghast. Don't you ever read what it says on the ice cream wrapper, I asked! It says a frozen desert and not an ice cream.See? Then came the question of milk since she thought milk is straight from the cows. I told her I am sorry to say, it comes from the dairy and it is never fresh. It is remade from the stored milk powder which they might have collected some weeks ago. Is it true? Ahhhh!And then we want to eat that cream from milk. Wish I was with Shri Krishna. He had the purest of the cream and m...

I was asked this question yesterday how does the grace come on to a person? Is there any specific requirement for getting that? The answer is not so easy to understand so just know a few things first. The method prescribed by the ancient texts are quite a lot. You may follow some paths to reach that lofty place called God-Realization or Self Realization.But then it is not at all an easy one. So you require the grace of God and Guru. It takes us millions of lives to get there but it can be facilitated by the God and Guru. The paths prescribed are Karma yoga, Dnyan yoga, Bhakti and many more but then just by reading some books of doing a zillion japas can never get us there. Consider this if by reading the holiest of books could give us Self Realization, then the proof reader or the printer would be. Similarly Ganga is a holy river and anyone who steps into Ganga gets all their sins washed, so the crocodile which lives in Ganga must be the holiest. But that is not so. This brand of Self ...

When I was small and I went for weddings or some family functions I always first ate the stuff which I liked the most then tackled the next best and lastly that which I did not like at all.Maybe it got left behind in the plate. Similarly when we write our examinations we have always written that topic which we know more about or the most liked or the easiest first. It is always better to get over those things which we can handle the easiest or fastest with an eye on the most liked. Even in our lives we should always prioritise the subjects which we can handle the easiest, most liked or the fastest that we can get over with. That way we will be happiest and then to handle the rest of the problems will be a breeze. Our main issues are never given the priority but we shun handling them at all. Sometimes we do not want to face our demons in life, hoping that they will go away. Even great people have done the same. They too had to face calamities or problems in life which they faced with g...

I am sure you have asked me the explanation from the spiritual point of view so my answer for the above topic of ego and self esteem is given below. The ego arises with the creation in the realm of Maya. The body considers itself as the container of that super consciousness and the various tatwas in the creation covered by the Gunas(satva, rajas and tamas). This ego makes us think that we are the ones who run the house which we live in. This false belief of importance given to that destructive principle is called ego. The ego is very fragile and goes bloated or diminished with the praise or the reprimand. Whereas the self esteem is the value we place for that ego in our own self. It is the estimation of what we are worth in the eyes of this false principle called ego. When we are humiliated by someone we feel our own estimation pitted against that yard stick which we have falsely created about our worth. Both these principles are worthless in the spiritual realm since they both point t...