Krsna's Teachings

When a child is born, the mother takes care of the child but as the child grows up he moves about in the world with hardly any thought of the mother. He then gathers other attachments and looses the ones he had before. Just the way we discard the clothes which are worn out or that we have outgrown. Such is the frailty of relationships in life. We loose a lot of friends and relatives in life. They later only become our past acquaintances which we may see sometimes in real or virtual life. But our bonding has deteriorated far beyond repair so we just say hello and move on. God is our father whom we tend to forget once we have a body and later we move on with our stronger relationship with our parents, school friends, then it is collage mates, then girl friends or boy friends, spouses and kids and then grand children and so on. Our business and other relationships also exist. Once old age starts up and we feel the need for some solace we again move towards this once forgotten friend calle...

When we were small our parents told us not to do certain things otherwise the ghost/devil will come and take us. We obeyed our parents because we were afraid. We never entered a room since the devil lived there. Even darkness troubled us so we never dared step out in the dark. At school the tall and hefty boy in class teased you but you dare not tell the teacher about him since you were afraid of being trashed by him. At school and college we were always afraid of getting less marks and loosing the ranks. When we went to work we were always afraid of loosing the job or our position to a newer recruit. We looked forward to our annual leave but were afraid that some last moment work will hold us up. Also when it was time for annual appraisal we were in the best of behavior and pandered to our bosses. Now as we look at our family in progression we are always thinking about the mortgages and monthly installments. Then it is about our children and spouses too. Can we provide for them in the...

Today I was asked by my disciple whether she could go to someplace far and settle down there-in the "happily ever after" way? I told her that the first thing that she would do would be to think about her daughter and how she was doing in life and that would never allow her to be free or happy anywhere. When she is in school she would have to think about her education, then it would be about higher studies, then about her job, then marriage, then her kids, then her divorce or unhappy married life, then her life and never would she be ever free. Now just imagine this- when do you think you will be free from these mundane stuff in life for spiritual goals? Never. Not in this life atleast! So don't kid yourself and say that you want to get realized in this life. Your life revolves around your family, friends, house, job, career, parents, life goals, travel and every other worldly stuff besides God! First it is all about settling down in life and then it is about God. God has ...

This whole month is being celebrated all about giving. Giving free meals, giving donations, giving back to society and giving love. There are many types of givers so I shall give you an idea about them. The highest type of giver is the one who gives and has no idea he has given, has no sense of giving and no ownership about the act or its fruits too. The middling type is the one who gives and knows that he has given, has a clear idea how much it is and where and when also. He cares about the fruits and is bothered that it has gone to the right place or person too. He needs accounts and always mentions about it to one and all. He feels the ownership of giving and granting to the have-nots. He feels mighty pleased at himself for giving and counts the next time also how much he can do good to the society. The lowest class are those who give reluctantly after coercion and by force only.They feel the others do not deserve their generosity. They never seem to let go of the things that they h...

I was talking about Arjuna and Krishna and why the poor Lord had to tell the handsome prince 18 full chapters of wisdom. He could have finished it in chapter 2 itself if Arjuna would have listened to Him. Just to say that even if God tells you to do something, you will still question His wisdom. Krishna tells Arjuna to lift his bow and arrow and shoot his enemy and the dude keeps on questioning the Lord continuously about His advices. We never listen to the Lord at all. Now you will say when does He speak to me? Of course, He speaks to you all the time but we do not listen to that voice within us which prompts us so much. We go by logic and our superb intellect and arrive at a conclusion which we feel is the right answer for the problem in front of us. We feel that our way is the right one and we will get the desired result as per our own accord. But sir, it is also mentioned that the results are not in our hands at all. Then why not do your job well and let the results be His? The fir...

When I read the blog of my fellow blogger Bhagyareema, where she had written about not wasting any food reminded me of an incident with a holy man from Bangalore. He was travelling with his group to Bangalore after visiting a temple at Kollur. There was so much of food which was loaded in the car that everyone was wondering that the food is bound to get spoilt since the journey was over 10 hours long. He insisted that they keep it in the car boot. There was food for over 200 people in there. After crossing a long distance they came across a huge crowd of people marching in line in the middle of the night. They stopped them to ask why so many children and women along with men are marching so deep into the night in that jungle. The group leader told them that they have been marching at night since they wanted to go back to Andhra walking as their contractor had deserted them and taken the money too. They were construction workers who had not had a morsel to eat for the last two days. The...

When Buddha spoke of compassion we have always wondered how it works and in our life should we be compassionate to everyone? If someone acts miserably with us, is it necessary for us to give back that person in the same coin or should our behavior be different? Let me tell you here, if someone is mean and acting difficult with us, we should be very kind to that person and help him out with his difficulties. Now you may ask why should I do that? That is because you are not him but a completely different beautiful individual. If someone stoops low, we need not stoop at that level and become as mean as others. If someone wants to be a gutter water, why should we become like him? And if we do then what would be the difference between us and him? They can be pigs but let us be human and nice creatures. We should learn to work with harmony and peace and create a healthy environment for ourselves. Our parents and Guru's have never taught us to be mean or ugly creatures, so why then become...

The word describes as an ego-trip. How many of us actually point to our little self and talk highly about it? All of us do that. It can also be called as a self promotion. I was talking about it in the satsang yesterday where we find that there will be a few of the devotees who will later describe the words of the teachings with their own interpretations and say that this is what he meant in his satsang. They draw their own conclusions which sound very highly intellectual interpretations of the simple words discussed in it. They then go about comparing themselves how intelligent they are than the rest of the devotees. I have myself experienced this in satsangs which I attended. Some really try hard to impress the rest of the crowd with their mental gymnastics. Again when we meet our colleagues we impress upon them how the meeting went by our own special inputs as to how you have been instrumental in making the leader arrive at a momentous decision. We all want that false praises. Somet...

I was hearing the rants of a person who was not getting what he wanted,even though he had asked or rather implored,prayed fervently for getting what he had asked for. He squarely blamed the invisible God for ditching him in times of extreme needs. Don't we all do the same every now and then when things that we ask for never come our way? We always find God at fault for not giving us what we deserve! But the poor Guy is not at all in the loop to supply you your choicest goodies, since you are on your own. Let me explain some things here. When we consider the actions our own and say that I did that or this is my own doing-like we say I studied hard for the examination, I worked hard for the promotion, I work my ass off for this seminar or presentation, or some such stuff and then we do not get the results that we had hoped for, we get the opportunity to blame that cool Dude! Here you are actually saying that me and my big ego have put in all the efforts to get that deserving result a...