Krsna's Teachings

Everyone is behind a mask! Why do humans put up appearances in front of others? Why are we such hypocrites and behave in such goody goody manner, when we should be at each other's throat? We love to enact a loving scene in front of the press or our friends whereas if these people were to know the truth, we would be going hammer and tongs at each other.  Every other day you find sleazy gossip about someone or the other having an affair with someone else and then the original couple making up. Does it mean they are doing it to not pay alimony, harm their children, make their parents or relatives believe everything is hunky dory? Or are they trying to mend and use the broken crockery? But why would you want to use a broken crockery, even when it has cracked end to end?  I still remember a person putting up a charade that everything is perfect and fine even after knowingly getting into a relationship with an outsider. This went on for nearly a year then to keep up the appearances ...

Stop believing in false gods when you are in a hopeless condition. They and their cronies will tell you to do some stuff to appease them to take you out of this rut you are in. These are the loan sharks who wait for you to loose everything. They are the devil in disguise, who will dangle you with goodies to entrap you and enslave you. Haven't you seen your own do vratams or severe austerities and extreme kind of worship and religious activities? You have seen people spend money like water for getting the right husbands, kids, jobs, whatnots!!! Every door seemed to have closed on you and nothing moves. There is not even a hint of hope and you have reached rock bottom. How many times have you come to this state and felt completely defeated? Lost at sea or completely demoralized!  Religious fanatics or false evangelists love to give you some fantastic stories about rising from the ashes, seeing a ray of hope or having a tiny light at the end of the tunnel. But most of the time they ar...

Looks can be deceptive!  When we hear people say- what you see is what you get, don't you think that if you see something like a fruit, you are buying that? But is that what you were seeking?  Today marketing is full of deceit and you can never make out with the wrapper whether the substance is real or fake. Just imagine your favorite ice cream is being enjoyed by you since a very long time and you come to know today that it is not even an ice cream then what would you say? It's deception and what is being sold to you is just a cold frothy substance. Next time read the ingredients on the pack and you will be shocked. It is a frozen gooey stuff that you believed was a nice cream but turns out into an aerated vegetable oil. Would you eat oil instead? No way, you will say but aren't you eating that?  Next go to fresh cows milk and find out if it's really fresh or even cows milk and you will be again shocked. Now that we have created a nice suspicion in your mind let me tak...

What happens when the senses become senseless? How much salt do you need in your food? Just a pinch of it, isn't it? It makes the food edible and tasty. Now ask how much sugar do you need in your food and the answer is not the same! Sugar is needed to make some stuff sweet and salt is added for taste. So the two differ in content and quantity too.  Some people do not have the capacity to eat sugar since they are diabetic. They have to regulate the sugar in their bodies so they are under medication. They have an insulin jab and then have a little sweet stuff to regulate. But most of the people can have regular sugar in their diets. Even a bottle of your favorite soft drink has nearly 40 grams of sugar.  This is not a lesson on foods and additives. This is a lesson on tastes in life and how we accept them. This is how we take in stuff in the world through our mind.  The tongue is an organ which can distinguish a taste and tell you how much it is. Whether the food has excess...

What is real and unreal? Sometimes it's so tough not to accuse someone in our life. Even though we know that the main culprit or perpetrator is that someone who is special to us.  There are many reasons for our behavior. It could be that we love that person dearly, have respect for him or her, owe something special to them, common sense tells us not to accuse them, societal norms, no certainty about our accusations, the position they carry in the hierarchy, belonging to a certain class or caste, stupidity of theirs or our own idiotic reasons, etcetera. Now you can put up your own reasons for shutting up.  By doing so sometimes we put our foot in our mouth or create a very disturbing situation in life. The people around you become disenchanted or loose their respect for you. Now I shall give you some examples to let you get an even idea about it.  Teachers in school sometimes are wrong in what they are teaching but as a mark of respect we shut up. Parents or elders are tak...

What would you do if you were trapped into submission by an attacker? Would you submit or fight or would you just be a passive being and let them get away with the heinous crime?  There are all kinds of people in this world. So expecting some to resist and others to allow is in our nature. Some of us are so mild mannered that we let others railroad us and bully us. Some are so aggressive that they fight tooth and nail to bring the other to justice or bring them to their knees.  The passive beings are always the butt of ridicule and bullying. Why do they allow others to do that to them, you may ask? Atrocities happen because the perpetrators seek out the submissive. These people are built like the predator type of animals. They thirst for seeking out an easy prey. Finding one is extremely easy since they hunt with precision of an owl or a bat in the darkness of human apathy.  Whenever there are atrocities, humans stay deliberately out of it. They see these instances happen...