human life has different situations where we enjoy favourable situations and difficult situations. the power hungry people,intellectuals and rich are making ordinary people's life under stress every day. why humble people need to suffer the wrath of those powerful corrupt double standard ones. why krishna makes innocent people suffer more pain in the hands of those? why can't krishna destroy those evils at first place and establish righteousness at the first place instead of coming last to destroy them?
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We rejected Him originally Krishna is not a Sacurity Guard over our every comfort & protection at every moment. That sounds like an unfair apoiapoint to me on the face of it !
Further the understanding is or should I say (the correct understanding is) "if we/one,
has the intentioto to-(in this life time,)-return Directly Back Home To the GodHeads, He WILL' protect you in such a way as a personal bodyguard type thing.) i.e. fully surrender to guru & ashrama cent perCent.
But if one is insisting on peaceMilling their way back while living life in the "normal" -old fassion way, then All bets are off. & we are not exzactly on our own, but we are subject to suffer more. Than under tje shelter of Krishna & or Vishnu.
Sri Krishna destroying evils of bad karma if one helplessly shout His name, but those who seek the help from others cant completely surrender despite all the effort.
Hare Krishna Santosh Prabhu,
I found a inspiring talk by Prabhupad,
Determination means utsaha, "I Must." That is necessary. Not that "When Krishna is merciful, then I shall do." Krishna is already merciful. But if we do not take it, then what Krishna will do? Krishna does not touch on your little individuality or little independence. So therefore we have...Just like when we earn money, we are very enthusiastic, similarly, if we want Krishna conciousness, if we want to earn that position, go back to home, back to Godhead, we must be very much enthsiastic, utsahan.
Please start chanting as Mataji suggested, chanting is more helpful to develop our faith to Krishna.
Your servant,
Sibaram
Hare Krsna Santhish prabhu,
PAMHO.
I understand that initially it is difficult to handle problems, thinking Krsna is there to solve all our problems.
What you have mentioned is that you are hearing the mahamantra - what about chanting? Pls chant atleast 4 rounds of mahamantra everyday for the next 6 months to see any visible results. Chanting has to be done - whether good times or bad times or whatever times - chanting is food for the soul, it cannot be compromised on.
There is nothing wrong with playing chess - in fact, it sharpens the brain. Pls play chess, not against KC.
A little knowledge is necessary to make the faith firm, otherwise the moment any problem comes, we immediately lose faith. Just to give you an example - Mother Devaki was in jail for atleast 25 years of her married life - did she say at any given point in time - enough, I dont want to be Your devotee anymore, release me from Your devotion. The greater the devotion, the bigger the material test a person has to face. This is same as a Class 1 student will face a much simpler exam than an Engineering student. Both are students, but level of maturity and competency is completely different. Therefore, we are only made to appear for life's exams to the extent we have matured in our devotion. Another thing whihc I believe and have seen it works is - God never gives us a battle without giving us the apparatus to fight it. We have to find our strengths and hone them.
Have faith - you appear to be going through a lot of problems. By keeping faith, you will sail through. Without fatih, its difficult.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Radha Rasamayi DD
Hare Krsna Santosh prabhu,
PAMHO.
Your discussion topic heading - how to approach life which has so many struggles, riddles & problems - the answer is - that is the precise reason Gita was spoken by the lord. It was spoken on the battlefield, not on the banks of some holy river in some holy place. This is because each of our lives is a battlefield where are constantly struggling to survive and manage our situation. The answer is - by dedicating our life to Krsna, by realising the purpose of life - to utilise this human form of life to go back to Godhead, by doing all activities keeping Krsna in the centre.
Now to answer the question raised by you in the discussion - If Krishna made everything all right, then where is the credit to any of us? We struggle and then we gain - the success is sweet because of our struggle. Would we know the worth of anything if we got it without effort. Secondly, this is Kaliyuga - the age of quarrel. Things are not supposed to be ideal in this age. What ever we suffer is the result of our own karma. Krsna has made the software called karma cycle, but entry in that software is ours - whatever karma we do decides whether we are the predator or the prey. Today's predator can become tomorrow's prey.
Krsna is not making anyone suffer, our own karma is. In fact, Krsna is giving us the window, if we surrender unto Him, He will take care of all our sins. Such is His mercy!
Haribol,
Your servant,
Radha Rasamayi DD