Krsna's Teachings

The off now and on later romance of life is very unnerving as it is mostly off!  Going through your troughs and crests in life, the boat moves on. Yet there is nothing forward to look to.  Most of you are at a stage where moving ahead is painful. 90% of the world lives in that condition. I may not have the statistics to prove that but your good times last for only ten percent of the time. 40 percent goes in inertia or sleep and the rest of 50 percent you live in gloom and dreary state. Full of depression and anger state. You can't see life and it's upside.  Either your state has been brought about by your spouse, your boss or your other relatives and friends. You cannot escape these people anyway so listening to them or thinking about them, you bring about these states. The other things that contribute towards it is money matters, home issues, emotional issues, growth and career, sickness and pain, food and studies.... And so on!  So what can you do about it? You still want to

There are geniuses and then there are normal kinds! There are people in this world who cannot calculate even the simplest equation. There are others who cannot answer a simple question too. But they can solve the toughest problems instantly.  These are very highly evolved people who have educated themselves so much or written great stuff and yet for them to solve a simple puzzle becomes difficult. Has the brain or mind advanced so much that they cannot comprehend a silly issue?  Sometimes it is tough to answer even things like their own address or name. They might have to ask another who they are or where they stay.  Sometimes geniuses are like that. They live in a world which is far above the mundane and cannot answer the most trivial issue.  The senses do not function for such people at ground levels. They all live in a nether world far above like the eagles nest. They can never observe below their noses. Calculating difficult stuff in their minds, they are not used to live life simp

"I give you my word and I will keep it." These are great words we hear often from people who believe in their integrity and truthfulness. But what is the truth?  When you are not even sure whether you will be alive the next instant, how can your word be alive then? Suppose you promise to take care of your parents throughout their lives and you believe your word is the absolute truth, then if you were to die what would happen to your word? Or you would be brought to a hand to mouth existence yourself, how can you take care of them?  I was faced with a similar dilemma in my own life. Till the time I was not in spiritual, I believed I owed it to my parents and family for my life. They had given birth to me and all that blah. So I owed it to them and I was determined to provide for their convenience. But destiny played it in such a way that they were taking care of me instead of me taking care of them!  For many years I struggled with this thought that I wasn't a good son. I

My Gurudev Shri Dattatreya's birthday was yesterday. I still remember how He gave me His blessings the first time in this body.  I was unable to fathom how this divine knowledge was coming to me. The sutradhar should be someone around, I reasoned out. So I decided to seek Him out. I was not aware of anyone around me who could be guiding me surreptitiously. It was very intriguing for me. I waited for many days for Him to show up. Since I had no physical confirmation from anyone or anything, I was extremely frustrated.  One day I couldn't take it any longer. I decided that enough is enough. I had to know this great person. I finalized a date in my mind by when, if my answer was not with me, I shall go away never to return. Maybe my life was not worth it.  That day, I was sitting in my store chair waiting for closing time. No customers were around. The staff was busy chatting away in the aisles. Suddenly, I noticed someone sitting in front of me. I looked up like a zombie not know

Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer. Ask an intelligent question and so do we get an intelligent answer? No way! It's still a stupid answer!  Ask anyone this question- do you know the story of Cinderella? The answer is---? First they will want to know why you are asking that question? Next they will think that you are asking a trick question and will think up the most stupid answer. Thereafter they will ask you if that is what you meant?  The answer to the question is- YES! Yet, did you notice how the answers came? They could be the weirdest ones too.  So doesn't it tell you that no one actually listens to another but listens more to their own mind? Everyone has this disability of not listening at all. The question is not a trick one, yet why does the mind think otherwise?  So once these great intelligent folks come up with the stupidest answer, ask them the next question. Ask them- can you tell me the story of Cinderella in four or five lines? Then see the amount of

"You owe it to yourself!"Every man owes it to his own self first before he does to anyone else. That is called the true empowerment.  You think that you have to give things and better life to your wife, husband, children, in laws or parents first. You put them first and think that your duty is primarily to serve them first. So you deprive yourself of that happiness you deserve. You work your ass off and feed them, clothe them, give shelter, provide for their silliest of whims and fancies and always consider yourself as a third class citizen who needs to make the biggest sacrifice to call and glorify yourself as a MARTYR!  Why do you think you owe it to them? So you think it's written in the scriptures and the society tells you so? Let me give you your scriptures back. When Dhritarastra became old and was staying with the Pandavas after the war, Vidura comes and tells him to stop taking hospitality and charity from his so called saviors. He tells him to stop being a charit

What is the difference between those who talk and those who just do work? You have heard almost everyone just talk and talk. But you must have also seen people who just work but don't talk! So which category do you fall under?  Scientists who just keep on working but hardly ever do talking produce works which win Nobel prize but those who speak a lot become politicians.  These people hardly do any work. Their hot air spreads too fast and they gain public popularity but hardly do anything at all in life. These are the ones you see cutting ribbons, opening exhibitions, visiting schools and institutions and smiling for the camera.  But true doers are those who are like Mother Theresa. They do so much. Gather funds by the shovel, meet people who can drive initiatives, work with poor people, etc.. She was a true worker of God. A small frail woman who achieved so much.  Now let's see the doers alone. These work silently and surely. They have no hidden agenda of public renown, winning

The unpalatable truth of your ugly past comes to the fore and you are unable to face it!  When the truth comes out and you have to face it, never bog down and shy away from it. Today when I was reading about the Pope who acknowledged to the world that he was a club bouncer and sometimes he even swept the floors just goes to show the greatness of that man. He had the guts to tell the world that he had done that. How many of us have the guts to do that? We are all yellow inside. Scared of the consequences and the ugliness that may spill over.  Now ask yourself why are you hiding it? What makes you think that the world will never know? It's your past which is gone by and it has nothing to change about so why keep it in the closet. Here I am not saying that you deliberately should spill the beans but if the past comes up, you should never tell lies about it but face it squarely. The world naturally will condemn you but later will accept you and then it won't matter. But keeping it

In the material world there are two sides to the truth always. You may say truth is always one but then how can it be two? Every story has two sides, right?  Now when these cases are dragged out in the media, only one side gets reported more and the other doesn't. Take the case of the Goa hotel incident. The media baron and the reporter and their sexual incident. Both the people involved have two different set of stories from their own point of view. Now which one is true and which one is false? Similarly the parents of the Arushi murder case have their own story and the murder has its own. Who can judge the right one? No human being can understand both the sides of the stories.  So when a woman gets embroiled in a controversy of such kind, both the man and the woman have their own versions. So who is the liar or who is telling the truth? No one knows. To each their own versions holds water. But here the idea that needs to be understood is what is the version the world understands.