Krsna's Teachings

Man lives on hope! Another plane vanishes. We all have hopes. We all wish so much that the flight returns and the people aboard are found safe and sound. That is hope. We all live on hope.  Don't we hope for the best even in the worst possible scenario? When we know that there is even the faintest of chances for success, we hope for the best.  Man hopes that the deformed fetus that is struggling to survive lives. We hope the new year brings cheer and lots of happiness for your beloved. We visualize the coming season will be wonderful. We pray that the student sitting for exam has an easy answer paper. We hope the results will be good. We all hope that you get a good job with good salary. We pin our hopes that the slave gets his freedom. We hope that God listens to our prayers. The movie producer hopes his picture is a hit. The girl thinks she has the magic recipe for weight reduction. He hopes he will win the lottery this time.  Hope is a big word with four letters. It has too many

Now for the year in review!  Everyone during the course of the final week at the end of the year or the beginning of new year retrospect and review the year gone by. Some are good memories and some are terrible. Some we want to remember and some to forget.  We all do that because we want to find value in that year. The memories are daunting since they are very fresh. How does one find value in the memories? You look at the things that have brought about a good change and appreciate it and those which have shown us the downside we wish to erase and learn from those mistakes.  Some of the things we want to avoid are relatives or friends with whom we have fallen off. Some lovers whom we left behind. Some dreams which were destroyed during the course of the year. Some victories like the ones which provide you with enthusiasm or impetus to pursue further the given subject.  Some holidays and reunions are very touching and some draw our breath and dry our palates. Anger wells up seeing some

Apologetic negations! "No, I don't know."" I am sorry." Why does a person always start most of their sentences with these words? Are they programmed to be apologetic in almost everything. Why can they not start the sentence with a positive?  We have always learnt that if you give yourself negations, then everything in this world will be denied for you. So when someone says- I can't do this! Aren't they saying that they are incapable of doing something and that they can never attempt the same.  Atheists deny God so come whatever may, how can they ever find God ever? Similarly, the fanatics believe their God is the only true God, so when will they find the God who has created everything including those who believe in devils, other gods or in nothing? When someone has closed all the doors how can they find anything open? That is called loss of faith and hope.  If you deny yourself the power to know yourself, how will you know? You have been given so many fa

The story of the devoted king and his Guru.  Why does the Guru do what He does? Can anyone be sure why or wherefore He does it? No one can fathom the reasons for what He does. Then why does the petty mind of humans come in the way? I shall tell you one story here.  Once upon a time there was a king. He had a Guru who was the highest amongst the sages.  He believed in the Guru and everyone felt that the king was mad enough to throw his wealth away on Him. The king revered the Guru so much so that every time he met his Guru, he spent a fortune on gifts and celebrations. One day a pious person came to meet the Guru. At the same time the king happened to visit the Sage. The Guru immediately told the king to appoint this unknown god loving person as his prime minister.  The king did not hesitate and instantly gave the command appointing the pious person as his kingdoms prime minister. What the king didn't know was that this person suffered from leprosy. Though he was cured but he had lo

Is that the true Guru and the disciple here? Yesterday, I was told how students from a big university treat their teachers with disrespect and disdain. The teacher pleads with his students to come to class the next day so that he could distribute the marks cards. No body cares for the teacher anymore.  Similar situation is faced by the spiritual Masters too. They are treated worse than the school teachers or college professors. No respect is given to them and they are obliged to become crass creatures who beg students to learn. Being Kaliyuga they are subjected to such derogatory life.  Being engrossed in the material world, the disciples today are filled up with their duties to material. Earning their living and raising their family are primary modes of their life. Teaching such disciples is the toughest thing in the world. Since overcoming their bodies and senses, mind and intellect becomes very difficult. On top of it their past tendencies which we call as vasanas has become a moder

Everyone makes resolutions for the new year. Even hypocrites who say it is not their new year or religious fanatics who believe their new year is still sometime away.  Who cares what resolution you make! Neither you nor anyone! Yet, you still go ahead and suggest some changes in your attitude or your targets or goals settings.  Let us understand that even if you have vowed to not tell lies or  do some exercises, you are surely not going to do that. So then why bother? Can anyone change your inherent nature or your obnoxious habits? If you are attuned to lie all the time, you will do the same. Why would you want to change your ways or lifestyle?  Take the case of smokers or drinkers. They make resolutions every now and then to refrain from smoking or drinking. Do they keep the word? Rarely does one keep ones promise. Surely, they do not count their word so much otherwise they would have kept it truthfully.  Inherent nature makes one behave in a particular manner. Imagine a pig who is us