Krsna's Teachings

My facebook update had a comment by Ramesh who wanted to know if God would be the same if called out by any other name in any other language. So here is the explanation for the above. It is written in most of the holy books that first came the word. Now we always wonder how it came about. Let me give you one example of your own child. When a child is born, it has no name so we name the child something...let us say we call the child Pari. Now can we separate the word Pari from the child? Pari and child are one and the same. So the name or word came first and then the object or being. So the child says-I am Pari and Pari says thats me! So when we say the child came first it is called Shiva, the name would be called Shakti and the child saying-I am Pari is called Ishwar and the word Pari which says thats me is called Sadashiv. So even if I say in any other language the sequence remains the same. Now let us examine the letters or matraka...the word is called mother since it gives birth to

I was watching George Carlin's take on "Stuff" and it made me realize how much we cram our life full of stuff. So what is this stuff all about? It is all about collecting really unwanted stuff all our lives. Now just when one of my distant relatives father in law died, she called all those who cared for him to take away the stuff he had gathered all his life. Sadly, I found a whole load of spiritual books including a Gita piled up near the toilet for similar disposal. I felt sad at that old man who died and who had so lovingly gathered these books and other stuff and now his daughter in law was throwing it away. We have so much of stuff piled up in all our lives, houses, garages, lockers, cupboards and the kitchen that we really wonder who will take it all if we were to suddenly die? No one would care for it, just because they have their own stuff to take care of. Do we really need so much of all these useless stuff? No, not even the clothes or the shoes as well. Someone

I saw my son upgrading his blackberry with the latest updates from their website and it set me thinking about why do people upgrade all the time? The latest gizmo's and gadgets are seen in the hands of the jet setters. They seem to just want the latest, the fastest and the priciest one to themselves. Does it define success of just craving to be noticed by others? Take the case of the most successful people around us and then you may be surprised to note that they run around in one very old and handy automobile. They may sport the best phone but they really have no clue about its latest functions or the number of software's available to play around with it. They have no idea how to juice it to the last drop. For them it is just another stuff to take them to their ultimate destination called success in their own field. Be it finance, retail or software. When in retail the retailer who has the largest number of outlets run their business on the best back end software and gizmo'

Have you noticed that in todays day and age the new age families have no time for anything except for sleep and work? Let me give you an example. The man works for a company with very odd hours. He sleeps till late afternoon. His wife says-whom should I get up for, so she too sleeps late or goes back to sleep once her kid goes by the school bus at 7am. Her maid mostly does all the stuff of packing the dabba, making the kid get up, putting his clothes on and so on. Memsaab is very tired since she goes to work everyday. Her work does not take her out of the house 4 days in a week. she logs on to the network and seems busy on her laptop. Meanwhile surfing various sites and chatting on phone and sametime. She looks busy when there is a scheduled call which is mostly silent and she is watching something on telly or on mail. When her name is called out she answers in a very highly interactive way and responds vigorously, just to make others think that she has heard it.The whole world talks t

I came across an interesting blogger who said that she hates online communities and social network sites. It brought me to my yesterdays satsang about how we have rejected a few things in life since they seem like interference in our 'space'! I was explaining about how people lived in olden times without any electricity and had no form of entertainment except gossip,make babies,sleep and eat after sundown. Whereas today people come home so late from their work place. Like this girl landed home from her job at Tesco at 11pm. There is electrical power, Internet, cellphones and all the newer things to keep us occupied today. There were only a few radio stations and we looked forward to the Wednesday night at 8pm for Binaca Geet Mala on Radio Ceylon.Nowadays you can check out videos and so many forms of radio stations and television stations that it is impossible to keep track. We loved to go to hill stations and pilgrimages but now there are conducted tours to exotic locations wit

One of my friends wrote on his status message about understanding the true person that you are, so I was spurred to write on that. What do you mean by being true to yourself and who is this yourself that we are referring to? That brings me to a satsang with one of my disciples yesterday on understanding our true calling, inherent nature, destiny and free will. All the above are connected so let me give you the low down on that. First let us know that we are all connected to our destiny. The destiny that we talk about is just a framework within which we operate. That would clearly mean that we are fish in a fish tank but we cannot move beyond that four walls of the tank.That is the overall destiny. That is defined by our karmas. Whatever prarabdha(current) karma that we are born with we have to follow the diktats of that.Meaning whatever species that we are born as is our past karmas diktats. We are as if on a rail line which is confinement and we cannot move beyond the rails or we dera

Why are we not able to fulfil our wants most of the time and why can't we wish for the impossible and get it? Our sankalpa is not so firm as that of God hence we cannot reach it. Brahma could create this entire universe by the firmness of his imagination but that firmness is never with us hence we cannot achieve it. The will of Brahman(Supreme Consciousness) is called imagination also. His Will is so firm that universes and any other can be created just to fulfill that will. We have multiple thoughts in us going on and the firmness can never come to us due to the multiplicity of our thoughts. Let us say when we think of getting the 1st rank, we are also thinking that if I come second what will happen or 3rd? What will be the subjects that I can take when I come 1st,2nd or 3rd or whatever? Do you see how we have dissipated our own will? We cannot be firm and hold on to that single thought hence we cannot work miracles in our lives. To have no thought or nirvikalpa state is next to i