Krsna's Teachings

Though I have written many times on this topic, there always seems to be no percolation and seepage happening so I write again about this topic called swadharma. Swadharma can be loosely defined as that which comes to you naturally as your duty in this creation. Now we tend to think that there are things that we need to do by which we can save million lives or save humanity from the evils of this world. Having an indomitable spirit and braving all calamities we need to do some unimaginable task. There are people who have the never say die attitude and then they go out of their way in achieving things in this world. None of the above comprises the swadharma. So you think that you went out of the way in getting the rarest blood for some poor guy, scoring the ton in a test cricket, collecting food and clothes for flood victims, etc does not comprise that set also. Now let us see what we can do normally in our daily lives. Getting up early, doing the morning ablutions, maybe cooking fo...

In Brahma Vaivarta Purana there are the following verses. "Marriage purified by sacred mantras will no longer exist.  There will be no truthfulness and no forgiveness. Men will  associate with women only for sex." "No woman will be chaste. In home after home the wife will be  unchaste, always running after men. The wife will treat her husband like her  servant. She will always rebuke him and make him tremble in fear." "Everyone will do as they please. Devoted only to belly and  genitals, they will be greedy, degraded, tormented by diseases,  and dressed in rags."  When I read the above lines I knew that the yuga must have come about. Today we write about love marriages and arranged marriages and then we insist on divorces and separations. With which yardstick can we measure good happy marriage today? There is no truthfulness in marriages or even in relationships. Every human fakes in that institution. When we see old married couples and ask...

Just a few days ago one of my friends wrote to me about the death of his mentor-Lalit Sheth. He asked me why such type of things happen to people and if I can make any sense in it! Shankara says to us in the beautiful treatise Vivekachudamani in the opening lines as much on the importance of this human life. The most difficult thing for us is to get a human birth and that is the foremost thing in the goody bag. Now that you are reading this, thank the great God for giving you this human birth. Just imagine if you were born a stone, how many lives would it take for you to become human? A billion or Zillion? So thank your stars for getting up here to read this stuff. Next in hierarchy is the strength of  body and the will to run it. If you were born with bodily or mental defects, then the progression is extremely tough. Now have you noticed the sages have complete indifference towards anyone who has physical or mental disability? That is because they know the law of karma ha...

Some folks came to see me a few days ago and joined in a satsang with their own questions. I was answering a few queries when they said that they are thankful to God for getting their dear daughters married off. God has been kind to all of them and so on.  I told them that God was in no way responsible for their daughters marriages or for their upkeep. They were flabbergasted and got a bit provoked by what I said. So here goes the explanation for what I said to them. You are free to disagree or just log off but that still does not change a thing. The Vedas are the final word of God as we all know. It is the framework on which this entire creation and all that you do not understand has been cast on. Sounds difficult to follow?  It is like the Indian Penal Code written and enacted in 1860 or so. That is the framework on which anything and everything to do with law is based on. Likewise the Indian Constitution on which all the laws governing this great nation is based...