Krsna's Teachings

Nearly ten years ago I used to go about like a mad man searching for the love of my life and I could never co relate to any human being then or any other. I never could understand what it is that I wanted to see or relate to in my life. I was completely distraught and had absolutely no clue what it is I was after then. That was then my search and quest for the spiritual. My wife used to say that if there was some woman in my life she could fight it but some invisible God she could not fight at all. Everyday was a nightmare then. I roamed about the streets and used up so many contacts searching for God. The ones that I visited could never satisfy my deep craving for the Lord. It was the most horrendous time for the family then. They had to face my uncontrollable anger then. I changed Gurus after Gurus just to find out whether the newer one could take me ahead in my quest. I never slept, never ate well, anger seemed to ride me all day long. Why that anger was there I could never fathom. ...

In my recent visit to Siem Reap in Cambodia I came across a very interesting phenomenon. Almost all of the temples which were of Hindu origin had been changed to Buddhist beliefs and even the figurines had turned Buddhists. Take the case of the churning of the ocean which is a Hindu myth, the Buddhist rulers had removed the heads of the Gods and the Demons who did the churning and replaced them with Buddhist demi gods and devils heads. Citing reasons that the original heads were vandalized by miscreants. Surely the newer heads could have been close to original ones but alas it is not so. There are 4 million tourists which visit these famous temples and are fed by ill educated guides who have very little regards for the history of that place. Their job is to create an aura that the Buddhist were great builders and the original deity inside the temple is the Buddha. The largest and the best maintained temple is the Angkor Vat which starts with the Hindu epics of Ramayana, Mahabharata and...

Yesterday I was watching the movie Wall Street and the hero talks about greed and how important it is to be greedy to succeed. Have you noticed we are never satisfied with what we have and always crave for more than what we get? If it is the salary that we get, we need more than that. If it is wealth, then more than what we have. Similarly in marriage as well, we want to own our spouses and consider them as a personal property. There is always the upside of greed but there is a never considered down side too. When we become greedy we are not only taking what we don't deserve but make all others less fortunate and poor. Say for example when we make the presentations at the clients place as if it is our own brain-work, we are actually antagonizing a lot of our deserving colleagues. The client thinks you to be super brilliant but forgets to acknowledge the true people around that deed. Take the case of one of the top companies in India whose mentor is praised to the heavens for his si...