Krsna's Teachings

In our material world things deteriorate faster than you can imagine. Relationships go down faster than objects. A car nowadays becomes older in a few years but a laptop becomes ancient in a matter of few weeks. Even the cellphone does not stand the vagaries of time. Life has become too fast for words and the time for moving on has become shorter by the day. Even kids move out faster today than earlier. I remember when my French friend asked me when I was moving out of my house, I was aghast at that question but when she moved on at the age of 16 to Nantes from her village in France I was wondering whether such a thing will ever happen in India. Now that it does nothing surprises me any more. Now when we look at relationships in our age, they are flimsier than the will'o'wisps! Getting married has become a fashion and then it is all about this is mine and that is yours. No one is ever able to contend with someone who does not work for or in the relationship. I was surprised to ...

Every person who is in love believes there should be a reciprocation of the same. So when we love our child we feel that our child should return back the same. Should love us back! In the same way we love our spouses and wish they reciprocate it back. It never happens the way we believe it should happen. The child grows up into a handsome young man and goes away to find his own. In the same way the spouse searches for the one he/she can shower their love on to. Now you will feel cheated at the above and wonder what is it that lacked in your love? Don't you think it all started with your expectation and desire to be loved back? True love never expects any returns or reciprocation of any sort. When you love someone unconditionally, you can never have any expectations at all. Unconditional love means that exactly- no conditions for loving someone or something. Our love is always one sided or biased. We love our children and relatives more than we love anyone else. Have you ever shown ...

What it means to be in love! There is no space or time required to fall in love. It happens for reasons far beyond your control. It happens for some special reasons which have no logical explanations in this world. The feelings that arise due to this special condition are numerous. You feel like crying sometimes, the tears roll down your face spontaneously and suddenly. You smile at some vague feeling or person or in space and those who observe you may feel strange. You suddenly start jumping with joy and laugh as if you have heard some funny joke. You cannot relate to anything in this world at all. You become a recluse and are lost in your own world. You shun friends and relations are a pain in the ass. You want to blurt out yet you are restrained by some unknown force. You feel terrible inside,as if your insides are being churned or your heart is about to explode. Your stomach has a very queasy feeling and the hollow of the stomach turns into a whirlpool. You sweat at random and your...

I was talking about how the mind works and how things get tainted. In a restaurant if there was a used glass on the table would you pour water in it and drink? Never! In the same way if we carry previous thoughts inside the mind from previous day would we not get tainted by newer thoughts pouring in? A glass full of liquor is emptied by someone and then used for serving regular water, would it not carry the tinge of smell of liquor? Would a vegetarian like to be served with a ladle used to serve a non-vegetarian food? No! Our mind contains conversations, items from the past in the form of memories, bits of information where we make judgements about someone or something and such a thing would remain with us as remnants in our mind. We never empty our mind before we use it for the next purpose. Sleep is a special tool given us for emptying our mind at night. But we use it for the purpose of making more memories and gathering more trash in it. The one who dwells in the sleep state dwells ...

Many a times have we come across this word in our life and scriptures and yet the true meaning is hardly understood by many. So let me explain the term Dharma. The Dharma of a tree is to bear fruits, leaves, seeds and give shade. The Dharma of a tiger is to hunt for himself and his brood. The Dharma of sun is to give light and power to the world and others in the universe and burn bright. The Dharma of a human being is to study, work for a living, get married and procreate. These are few explanations for you to just start with but let me tell you this is a huge list of things that we have to naturally do in this creation. It is the natural law that supports this creation or the firmament that holds up this creation. Let us see if the sun stops shining then this world will end for sure. If the tree stops giving seed or bearing fruits and giving shade that would be disastrous. If the humans stop procreation then there would be no further generations to come. If the moon does not reflect ...

This question constantly rankles all of us as to how destiny works and what can we do about it. Let me put it first to you that destiny is like a fixed, bounded and circled tank or jail for you. There is no escape to anyone even if they are the avatars in this world. all have to bow down to this fixed path called destiny. This is not terminable or avoidable. The next thing to know is that we do not accept anything at all in our lives without questioning and fighting it ever. So when we are faced with some situations in life which are very difficult we tend to take the easy way out of it or the least cumbersome. We hope we are not caught with our pants down. But destiny has a lot of twists in store for us. Here are some examples for you to understand this. A woman thinks that the one she is married to is her God and their marriage is made in heaven till she faces the worst human on earth. Then can you think it was made in heaven or is it in hell? Similarly another has to see her most be...

Now it may seem that they drove all night to reach the destination and finally could get the darshan of the Lord without much efforts, all because of the advance bookings at the temple and the well planned trip. The human ego decides that their efforts paid off and they could get such superb darshan. If there is no call of the divinity then they could never have reached the destination or got the darshan. Many a times we are deluded so much by our own ego that we are not able to see the divine hand anywhere. You are able to visit temples, mosques or churches or places of religious interest only because the divinity allows you to visit there. Even your visit will be facilitated by some strange methodology and you wonder at the end of it all, how it all happened so smoothly. But sometimes you are faced with very stiff resistance and the trip itself is very difficult or you are not allowed to reach the destination. Sometimes you may reach the desired location but are unable to see...