Krsna's Teachings

Man is habituated for making judgements on others. He loves jumping to conclusions even though he has absolutely no idea of the truth about the other person. We love to arrive at our biased conclusions even before we have gathered enough facts about another human being . I am reminded of an ad which appeared for some phone company where the woman is speaking at a nearby table holding her hand near her ear. At another table an older gentleman who looks at her thinks that she is talking to him. In fact she was talking into her phone which was a very tiny instrument cupped in her hand. Here the gentleman who thought that she was talking to him, is like us who don’t know the entire facts and just think what our little mind exaggerates to us. Imagine someone whom you don’t like from the bottom of your heart is about to say something and you suddenly interject and cut him off dissing him right at start. Wouldn’t you like to know what he was going to speak? No! You never e...

I am hurt at what he had to say about me! After so many years also, he doesn’t think that I am good enough. Why is it always, that I have to be at the receiving end? I have done so much for him and yet he says that I am no good. I feel that I have given everything to this relationship and yet I am being told that I am not doing anything at all. I spent all my youth and prime time of my life building this relationship and in one stroke it is destroyed. Today, I feel so used and I know I will never be able to get back into the same space once again. It’s a lost cause. I am being blamed for all that has happened. Where did I do anything at all? I am the one who was covering up all the loopholes and loose ends in life. I took all the crap and kept quite all the time. I knew what was good for this bond but here I am right in the middle of the crossroads and nowhere to go. I feel cheated and robbed off everything that I owned. He has taken everything away from me even though I w...

Everybody wants somebody to talk to. No one wants to be left out. Companions and friends are there throughout our lives to offer the advice and a shoulder to cry on. Man lives in the company of other like minded beings. Some prefer the company of animals to humans. Some are engrossed with their near and dear ones. Some prefer to have drinking buddies around them. Others love gamblers. The druggies prefer other drug addicts. Man always feels secure in the company of other people. Except when he has to stand out like a sore thumb. The blacks prefer their own colonies, so do the religiously inclined. The caste barriers are raised for the ones who belong elsewhere. The biggest differentiator are cults, religious groups, radicals and the like. The whole world is demarcated by lines drawn across various man made boundaries. I heard someone preach about baptism and asked what it was all about and it created a rift between religious and the not. Whereas it exists in all other formats in every...

The worldly truth is always one sided. You may wonder how can that be? But let me show you how truth can be one sided. Let us take couple of examples here. First the perennial issues about a mother-in-law and their daughters-in-law fights! You have seen it in your life, how this happens. If you are the man caught in between these two, you will understand what I am saying. Both are right from their point of views and both are wrong too. You can see your mother getting hyper with your wife for her own reasons and your wife acting it out as an aggrieved party! Now tell me who is truthful and who is lying? You won’t be able to make out a case of one, wherein you will surely hurt the other. Next, the case between two lovers who are breaking up now. If you are the friend of the girl, you will surely have sympathies for her and would hate the man. On the other hand if you are from the boys side it would be the opposite. So now be a neutral judge and tell me who is in the right? Neither...

We regret many things in our life. We always wonder why aren’t we able to do those wonderful things that we used to do in our childhood or youth. On one hand we are rueful of the past and regret not being able to do many things then due to paucity of funds or knowledge or the will to do that. On the other hand now we regret not being able to be so proactive like your younger self. You were full of chutzpah and zest earlier and now you have lost the mojo in your life. Either ways, you are dreading your current status of being hyper active or a complete dodo. Your regret shows so plainly that you may completely turn yourself off. So why are you regretting your current or past status? Let us first tackle the lack of enthusiasm and inertia set in you today, whereas you were literally a firebrand earlier in life. You have asked yourself why are you like this now? A completely stupefied and inert being . It’s isn’t that you haven’t analyzed yourself to death for your current st...

Do you copy your Guru or Mentor? When you copy your mentor or your Guru, do you really believe that you have reached their position? They say that imitation is best form of flattery! But in real life is that true and can you do it? Your mentor has very weird methods of training you and weirder ways of life. He may drink hard liquor out of straws or mix coffee with tea, so would you think that's what you too have got to do? Don't be silly, you are just proving to be a brainless jerk so don't do it. But your argument would be that shouldn't I be following what he does, even if it sounds crazy? That's how he came about to be so good, you would say! But being silly and idiotic is one thing and to copy that idiotic behavior is another. Just stay away from such show of silliness. Just be yourself and only take good and genuine stuff from your mentor. Now let's come to the spiritual domain and see how your master behaves. He is totally loco as far as you can see. He...

What to do when the deed is done? Is there any way by means of which I can be redeemed? These are the questions that I got from some people some time back so I am writing the answers here. You know what you are doing is not right and yet you are still doing it. Or there are inevitable actions happening which could have been avoided in normal circumstances but the situations were too overwhelming and so that happened. I know this may sound vague to most people but those in the know will agree with me here. So let me give you some examples. Once when your immediate supervisor insisted you to have a glass of wine even though he knew you were a teetotaler and you were forced to accept it. Though you don’t do drugs, once you had it unknowingly. Similarly, you never are much into one night stand but the circumstances were too compelling and you ended up in the sack with some really obnoxious creature. Now these are random instances which I have written about so I guess you got the gist ...