Krsna's Teachings

Today I was asked a very important question by someone I was meeting for the first time. His question was if I have accumulated some bad karma, can I delete it by doing some good karma? Now let me tell you if you have taken a loan, you gotta give it back and if you have lent someone money, you will have to take it back, right? So If we have accumulated bad karma...let me give you one example here for bad karma. Maybe you have slapped someone hard or robbed some money from someone, then it is required that you get slapped back or that other person robs you of it sometime in the future life. Now let us see the possibilities of that other person and you coming together in another life face to face...one in a million chance,see! So you got to take birth so many times. Wow, that is very silly! In the same way, if someone has beaten you up to a pulp, you will have to beat that guy up sometime in your future life also. But by saying that after beating you up, he takes you to the hospital, wou...

My recent visit to Kolkatta spurred me to watch some good Bengali cinema. I asked around some of the known folks to recommend me some good films. Mind it ,I told them that I do not understand any Bengali and I wanted the films to have English subtitles so that I can get the hang of the dialogues! But alas I could find only one film with those. I was thoroughly disappointed. I saw some really great films like Antarheen, Allo, Ballyganj Court, Anshumaner Choobhi, etc... Now my titles may be wrong here so please ignore it, but I guess you got the hang of what I saw. The films were made on very poor budgets and the cast kept on repeating the costumes and the location hunt was not that great. The art direction was the pits but the actors were great, the direction was good, the story was the essence of the film and overall the look was very soft. The way we get to see garish costumes in Hindi flicks, the strong dance sequences in South films, the biggg budgets of both the south and Bollywood...

Now when I heard these words in a song recently, I wondered how the whole music scene has evolved. You may say this song has no appeal but don't you see there are so many genres today that we can actually sense a whole new evolution on the musical scene. I am in middle ages and I love to listen to Taio Cruz, Eminem, Rihanna and others like Amanat Ali, etc.. too. Most of my collections are similar to my daughters collections and my favorite are always on the AT40. That brings me to the crib by all the old artists that their songs are getting mutilated and cannot be recognized today. Now we need to give way to the old and ring in the new, right? There are people who really love the oldies and slow numbers, so are the younger generations in any way obstructing them from crooning such numbers? My sons repertoire is full of such old numbers and he belts them out at the local Karaoke bar. I feel he is much older to me whereas the liking for songs go. There may not be any logical explanat...

The guy in front started spewing out venom about the condition of Kolkatta. He must have been a supplier from Delhi, so he went on talking about how disciplined the crowd is in the Mumbai Ganesh Festival and how the city moves along even when there is a tonne of traffic.This started at Gariahaat, while on the way to Taratala. The lady next to me worked her way up also, talking and interjecting with the guy in front of the auto. She too complained nineteen to the dozen and continued with the tirade how the whole of Kolkatta comes to a standstill during the Pooja. Suddenly an old woman at the signal at Kalibari turned inwards towards the auto and missed smashing her face in it. We heaved a sigh of relief. She continued to ask if we would go towards another destination. The Auto driver surely missed a very great tragedy. Then these two got an opportunity to cajole the Kolkatta women and their strange ways. The guy in front said that he hated the crowds during the poojo and would shut hims...

I have been reading tarot cards for my clients for donkeys years and been in occult for the last 48 years.When I had gone for the Indibloggers meet, the girl sitting behind me introduced herself as a tarot card reader and I was wondering how and why I gave up that beautiful hobby! Last month I trained one person in that lost art of Tarot reading through spiritual methods. The psychic world is filled with such wonders that it is difficult to pin them down to some worldly method of divination. When I started to practice Tarot Card reading here in Bangalore, the world had hardly heard about that. Before I came on the scene, an old Anglo Indian Gentleman called Commander Green practiced it from Brigade Road. Thereafter I started from my tiny store in Indiranagar. I got quite a notoriety since I got a half page write up in the Times Of India and other papers. I never charged a penny to anyone till January 2009. Later to dissuade people from visiting me I charged them, but they never gave up...

Now here we have people asking God for all sorts of stuff and God granting them or just not even giving a whiff of it at all to some others. So you may ask why does he give some and not give others? First and foremost let me tell you that the God that you speak about is some deity of some kind who is a giver of handouts and not an almighty that you would think of. The Supreme Consciousness that we talk about which cannot be quantified or qualified is not at all visible or a doer also. He just does not react or give some opinion at all. Here if I say 'He', it does not mean the masculine He at all. I just have to address that something so I am calling that 'He'.Coming back to the verdict called answers given by God. Let me assure you He does not give any answers at all. He is not even an observer or a witness as it is believed. If some people are dying or some weird stuff is happening, He never interferes at all. The wrong or the right happens since it is wrong or right a...

Love is such a mis-used word in life that we say it so casually for every silly and stupid thing and misuse it with every other person. The word signifies a very deeper feeling but see how it gets used and check out its different connotations here. A mother says to her child that she loves him/her. A husband or wife says to their partner the same word. A boy says to his girlfriend and a girl says to her boyfriend the same. A man says to his dog the same and calls out to his best friend the same. Now assess the feelings that this word evokes in these different situations and you will understand that we are not talking about the same emotion at all. The responses are different for each one of these situations, then why do we have to use the same word or misuse it so much. I wish the languages have a different word for each of these emotions and expressions and convey the correct meaning. The words can lead to a very difficult situation if we use it in the wrong context. So let us start a...