Krsna's Teachings

I am sure you have seen these days when everything seems so bleak and run down and there is no hope for you anywhere. You rack your brains to find solutions and there are no solutions that can raise your mood or remove the pall of doom. The reasons could be many. Maybe you have lost something valuable like a diamond or an old friend or simply you would have broken your heart. Or you would have not got into a prestigious institution or just had a broken marriage. The reasons for feeling might be any. But the cause for your spirit being completely dejected and hurt or just destroyed could be many. The most important news that you were waiting to hear has changed to being the worst news. The mind plays on and you get more and more depressed by the minute. In other developed nations you call in the shrink and get yourself a quick fix but here in India we have no such stuff to look forward to. You may have a good friend to whom you may pour it out to but can you actually tell that? You ...

I recently met a person in the store whom I couldn't recognize. She came and wished me. After sometime I realized who she was, one of my past disciples. This is the same person who called me in the dead of the night when her husband was in coma and about to die. Her prayers were to save him then. I told her that he will be fine soon. I got a message next morning that he is out of danger now. Few days later when I inquired about him, I was told he has been discharged from hospital and there is no trace of the disease too. Later she called me to come and bless her new home, but when the day to do the same came she asked me to bless it on the phone which I did. Now she is well settled and her husband is back in business. That day she met me after two years and never even said anything at all about the fateful night. We sometimes do not acknowledge the right One. Few days ago a child was taken ill and her mother frantically called me to take care. I advised her that I am always with he...

When does ignorance begin for a human being? Ignorance begins the moment he is born. Imagine the jivatma trapped inside the body has to see everyone around calling out funny names and making faces when the body comes out of the womb. He, who has no name is called by some name. Then the process of ignorance begins. Water when poured or bottled inside a container is called by some name which is imprinted on the container. Do you think that water had a name? Now comes the price for it. The qualities associated with it. Just the same way our bodies have qualities like color and shape and size and all other appendages which makes the world believe that I am that which you can see. Though the jivatama is self effulgent and all knowing we teach it our methods of living further making it a jailed bird. The bondage increases when it is told about the various relatives it has like mother, father, brother, sister, etc. Then comes the school where it is taught the methods of living in this jail ca...

In our material world you do something and you have to report to so many people. When you buy a new car you will be asked by a whole load of people how come you bought that car? I could have suggested a better option, I wish you would have told me earlier I would have taken you to my dealer who would have offered you a great discount, if only you would have waited for a few days then they would have the festival offers and so on. Every one thinks that your decision are not worth a cent and that you are wrong in what you did. Some outright tell you that you are an idiot just like your parents or relatives. The same situation arises when you are getting married too. There are people who love the boy and some think that you have got a raw deal. With your qualifications and salary you could have easily landed a great husband! Huh? Now why do we need to tell everyone everything at all? Is it required to divulge every detail about our life to all and sundry? Anyway who cares for their reacti...

Yudhistir sent his brother to far away lands to bring them under his dominion by means of the ashwamedha yagnya. Arjuna travelled far and wide bringing vassals under the regime of Yudhistir. He went as far as the south east Asia and rode to victory everywhere. He could not return for a very long time. Now it seems so very innocuous to any person and the valour of Arjuna can be written paeans about. But let us see from the point of Yudhistir and how he would consider sending his brother far away. First and foremost he would gain a lot by having Draupadi all to himself, second his brother who was the dearest to her would be far away from her. Yudhistir could govern the kingdom all by himself without any interference from another headstrong person. In case he died on the journeys it would be gainful to him. So why would Arjuna not be a thorn for Yudhistir? So sending him away suited the purpose. We never see how the truth looks like from any other point of view. All because we have been ...

The mother gives birth to the child and rears it up giving her milk and tends to all needs of the child forsaking her own happiness and desires. Even when the child is in the womb she makes the child comfortable and attends to every need that arises. Never a moment in time she feels disturbed or lazy to attend to the child's demands, be it of food, emotional or whatever. A time comes in life when the child grows up and wants to spread its wings and fly away. The mother only looks with trepidation and hopes the child is safe and cared for the same way she did. The intensity of the love can never be gauged by any other than the mother. In the same way the Master who has become the mother of the disciple does the same. When He initiates the young raw nubile and innocent sadhak into the fold, he takes of the young one with the same love as a mother's. When the disciple joins Him, He has to perform the tarpana or the death ceremony of the material life that she has led earlier. He b...

Today I was expounding a doha of Kabir wherein he talks about how we spend time doing all mundane stuff in our life and we hardly have any time for God. The reference was to how we need to give time to our Master who will take us towards God. We always seem to find shortage of time when it is a matter of listening to satsangs or discourses on God. We occupy our entire life towards living to the fullest in worldly sense. Our family, job, friends, parties, lunches, movies, picnics, outings, illnesses, hospitals, births and deaths, marriages and ceremonies, television and music, beaches and parks, family and friends holidays, games and matches...can I go on more enough....these and many more occupy our time of life. The major part is earning a living and studies for students and sleeping and resting take up the chunk of life! Kabir mentioned how we procrastinate even the smallest act of prayer and thinking of God. Tell me in all your life you have given time to sleep, rest, daily toilet a...

I remember getting up early to catch the Churchgate local from Virar running backwards for getting the seat. I used to get the fourth or third seat from the window. The same crowd used to be there standing all the way till their destination. Late at night I used to return thoroughly exhausted and ready to hit the sack but wait there were loads of clothes to finish and taking care of the kid too. Where was the sleep if you have a wailing child at home? Stuffing him with Nestum and Cerelac and all other stuff all the time was the household duties too. Sundays too were very disturbing and full of mundane jobs. Getting the household groceries and all other stuff happened on the days meant by God for holidays and rest. During the course of the week I did find time to attend the evening Novenas at Mahim church changing trains at Bandra. That I guess was the only time I found for God and even then it was all about asking stuff. Can you please give me better job, better salary, good health, ma...