Krsna's Teachings

The story of the cuckoo and the crow! Everyday the koel(cuckoo) would sing and the whole world would praise her. The crows would caw and the people would get irritated. They would shoo him away.  The praises showered on the cuckoo made her very proud of her abilities. She started to coo too much everywhere. The crow felt very dejected at the treatment meted out to him.  Then, one day the elder in the house died. The people were in mourning. They were very sad. The cuckoo as usual came and started to sing on the tree. The people got very angry. They didn't want to hear good music. They were in mourning. They took a stick and threw at the cuckoo. The cuckoo was aghast at their behavior. She shifted to the neighboring yard.  Meanwhile the crow came and sat on the tree. He started to caw as usual. The people were delighted. They called out to the cook and asked him to offer food to the crow. The crow was surprised. He had never got such a grand reception ever. He ate the food...

When you are confused and don't know what to do or how to do, so how do you find answers? This happens to all of us always. You aren't sure about anything at all. You believe any decision that you might take may jeopardize your chances of success. So you are unsure and refrain from deciding.  Let us examine this uncertain being in the first place. The person is unsure because he has been told of the risks involved, previous mistakes, past performances, comparisons, endless loops, laziness or inertia and gazillions other reasons.  This is a very normal scenario where you can't decide any which way. There might be too many or very little parameters to decide within.  I am not going to dwell on the whys you are facing but the most important part is how to solve the problem soon! There are steps to follow here.  First of all can you actually understand the problem? Do you know what the issue is? It may not be an issue at all since you are not able to find the nub! So fir...

Why is reporting and disseminating information so important in life? You may assume that you have done your job but if the top boss doesn't know then what is the use of doing your job?  Every human being assumes that the know-all top management is in the knowledge of your performances but they aren't aware at all! Stop assuming and start reporting to your immediate supervisor and above. It's important to tom-tom about your so-called completion of a job or the beginning of it at least.  I still remember my first job wherein I was told by my boss to go to some remote places to do my salesman's job and I would report regularly to my immediate supervisor and the regional office but I didn't receive my salary for full 6 months. I then told my Regional head that I would like to go to my head office. I was aghast to learn that my HO had no clue that I had joined the prestigious org. Finally they got all the papers sorted out. Then I got the next shock. They had no money to...

It's easy to waste time over frivolities and indecision! Extremely tough to decide on issues when you are attuned to deriding time. Decision makers are winners. Indecisive people do not allow the universe to do magic in their lives.  If you ever get a chance to be close to the Chairmans office you will understand that he is mostly on call, meetings, flying or at leisure. Then when does he find time to run the company? You will be amazed to know that few seconds he is spending with some of his key employees is the time he is just giving decisions and nothing else. His assessments are done by his cronies, staff, managers and servants. He only looks at the presented options and decides on the final answer.  Those who are unable to decide are the ones who bring the whole world of theirs down on the knees. These indecisive people destroy the fabric of conformity.  The uncertainty in life is also like this. When you don't know what you gotta do and are searching for answers! Yo...

Spirituality is all about the spirit in you. Spirituality has very little or nothing to do with religion. Religion is a way of harnessing people into submission to a particular way of life. Religion is full of do’s and don’ts of life. Too many dogmas and restrictions. Whereas spirituality is all about freedom and finding yourself. Recognizing your true potential and knowing why you are born. Buddhism or Jainism has no god to look at but these religions have dogmas too. Restrictions about every possible things. Killing animals is a no-no in Jainism and meditating is so much a part of Buddhism. But ask the world around and they  love  to eat animals all day long and meditating is an unknown word to most of the world. Yet these religions harbors spirituality. So can we define spirituality as something that has the spirit in it? But human beings hardly feel spiritual. The reason is because they don’t know it. They are ignorant of the fact that they are a part of the universal spir...

There are always two sides to a coin. We are always used to listening to one and getting biased. We do not have any idea about the other. Our judgement is based purely on the one side we know so well.  As a parent, we know only about our own kids side and not the other kid who is supposed to have beaten our kid to the pulp. So we tend to be biased more so towards our kids story.  In life too, we hear from one person more than the other. I was watching a movie yesterday where the wife is shown as a very subdued and quiet person and the narrative is from her side. She alleges an extramarital relationship between her husband and another woman. But nowhere is she confronting him and asking him for his story. So how can we make judgement by knowing only her part. He is not shown having an affair whereas this heroine is having.  Again another part of life says, it is better to be ignorant about the other side otherwise too many problems will crop up. Just imagine the above scen...

This is a birdy tale! The sparrows chirped on the trees. They all had one grouse against the crow. He would do no work but would just keep on cawing away. He was a big deterrent in their job. They worked as taily callers and the crows cawing would disturb their jobs.  One day they thought of putting an end to his constant meddling. They called the super bird Eagle and requested him to shoo him away. So the Eagle came all alone to talk to the crow.  Unfortunately the crow knew before hand from his key sparrow spies. He was ready with his retaliation. The moment the eagle came, he cawed so loudly that his gang of other crows descended and crowed and pecked the eagle and drove him away. The crows were victorious.  Then he was back to his old ways of interference. The sparrows just let him be after that. They realized that there is no use shooing him away. The policy of chirp and let crow worked well.  The political scene anywhere is just like the birds conference, n'est...

When someone says that the soul has left the body when the person died, what does it actually mean? Is there something called the soul or super soul? Again when the non believers say the person stopped breathing, so who stopped breathing? Is it the body or some person? Confusing, isn't it?  Spirituality throws such questions at us when we are free to think about spirituality. But otherwise, we are so engrossed in our own issues that we have no time for such questions.  Those who believe in some divine power called God think of that as Him or Her. Then there are those who believe there should be no object or person to focus on. They believe that there is something divine but has no body or form. Then there are those who feel there is no one or nothing to believe in. Only their own existence. So who can be right in what they think or believe?  The ones who have all the possible time in this world can keep on debating on this issue. But those who are engrossed in the materia...

So how do you focus on that one thing you wish to have? It's impossible to keep your mind on one object when there are too many other things distracting you! So how do you do it?  Now think that a ferocious dog is running after you, so the only thought would be to escape that dog, isn't it? Can you think of any other thing then? No!  Similarly, when you are sitting for your final examination and writing your paper, any other thought besides finishing your exam paper can cost you your marks and get you disastrous results.  So now you see here two things. One is focus on the activity and the other is the anxiety connected with the results. So target and focus are the two things alone. The third important thing is the "how to," which means knowing the right techniques. That translates into the right knowledge of that subject. Preparation for it with every tool of the trade is the last.  We are not able to achieve success in any endeavor because we have frittered our min...

Why do people behave like paupers when they own so much and are rich beyond expectations?  Take the case of a working single woman who owns three condos and yet she herself stays in a paying guest accommodation? She did not even bail her sister out of some legal trouble citing payments towards down payments for her newest condo buys. When asked why she behaves this way, even after owning three great properties? Her answer is she would like to retire in a few years and would want to live on rents which she will get from her three properties!  Now another woman has huge investments of her own and hasn't a dime in her pocket so she drives her merc home and has home food. What if she runs out of fuel? I have my credit card. So every month she pays huge sums of dollars towards her new star hotel coming up doing the interiors! Aha! So you too are saving up for the future? Eh! But if you were to ask her why she stays in such despicable slum like place, her answer is I need to be secu...