- To see Krishna in everyone, in everything, at everyplace and in every incident, we should have and develop Bhaav / Feeling for him. Here, Maataji gives a beautiful example that Jayadeva Goswami whenever goes to bath, he spends hours together.
Reason was that whenever he sees the water, he recollects the holy river Yamuna and whenever he recollects Yamuna, he recollects Krishna & Radharani and whenever he recollects Krishna & Radharani, he starts crying, he goes into trans, recollecting & relishing the sweet glories of the Lordship and forgets that he is in bathroom and went for bathing till his wife bangs the door and asks what he is doing hours together in bathroom and why he takes that much time to bath?
But we only remember Krishna on Sundays or on Ekadasi or on Janmastami days but NOT under all circumstances like Jayadeva Goswami….
If we apply the principle of seeing Krishna in one and all and in everything, a husband and wife, a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law, a boss and a subordinate, for that matter any two relationships can NEVER fight. In fact, they relish that whatever is happening is happening due to the sheer causeless mercy of the God to purify his body, heart, mind and soul but for nothing else.
Maataji referred that some devotee asked Maataji that he is unable to see God in his wife as she is always problematic and does always nonsense. Every time he gets angry on his wife, shouts at his wife and his wife too complaints the same to Maataji about her husband.
Here Maataji has given a TIP to both husband and wife that whenever they get angry on each other, let them shout and fight, but before doing that, let each of them identify the good qualities in others and before fighting, pointing out, let them pray to God to bless them with the good qualities the other person is having and then start blaming / firing / fighting.
By doing this exercise, first of all, we will come to know, realize, recognize, remember and appreciate the good qualities and strengths in others and once we think about their good qualities / strengths and pray to the Lord to bless us with those qualities, our anger on them will come down and we will try to express our feelings in a controlled emotional spirit, and on the other hand, the other person gets the chance to correct himself/herself and in the process of praying to Lord, we are also getting purified.
Source : Sunday Bhagavad Gita Class at ISKCON Vizag
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