HARE KRISHNA,

In the midst of our sorrows, pains and worst phases of our life when there is no sign of the silver lining in the dark clouds,  many times we approach our Lord Sri Krishna and ask him why me Lord, what have I done that the dark patch in my life is never ending. We keep questioning our most beloved Lord why do we suffer , when we,  to the very best of our knowledge may have not knowingly harmed  anyone , yes unknowingly we could have erred but why should we always carry the burden of the cross? 

This question even I have always asked our beloved lord Sri Krishna in my utter ignorance , but one fine day, by the divine grace of Lord Sri Krishna , my otherwise mind which always asked "WHY ME" suddenly changed the track and pondered aloud  "WHY NOT ME"?   This was one of the most enlightening moment of my life when unexpectedly my mind took a reverse turn for the good.  Did our most beloved divine pure Sita amma not  suffer, did our Lord Rama enjoy the very best , every moment of his life was filled with sorrow by the separation of his most beloved wife Sita amma?,  Did not our own beloved Lord Sri Krishna to escape the cruel Kamsa separate from his own parents Devika ma and Vasudeva as a new born baby?  Did our Lord Sri Krishna at every moment for the sake of his devotees go through the great ordeals of maintaining Dharma and truth?  In the war every time our lord was subjected to the greatest conflicting situation where he had to maintain righteousness yet because of the vile creatures like the Kaurava clan he was always at the cross roads, did all our saints like Gyaneshwar Maharaj, Pundalik Maharaj, Tukaram Maharaj, Ramanujacharya, Adi Shankaracharya,  Meera bai, Radha amma, Saku bai and countless others not suffer despite being the purest souls ?  Did they ever ask our beloved lord Sri Krishna that "Why me " , NEVER....Their mind was totally surrendered to our  lord Sri Krishna  and any humanly suffering was totally ignored by them and never ever highlighted.

Our entire life is predestined as per our Karmic actions of the past,  by our Lord Sri Krishna .  We have evolved over thousands of birth, none of us know what we have done in the past but there is a carry forward now, also our greatest lord Sri Krishna wants to speedily tally our balance sheet for he wants his pure devotees to reach him quickest more than their own slow pace and hence the cleansing process is a must and one needs to bear each of the pains during this process with the deepest of devotion and total faith in the ways of our Lord Sri Krishna, for our prayer should be not to eliminate our pains but a sincere appeal to our Krishna that he should be with us during each of our dark phases for if he is with us then the worst of sorrows are burnt to ashes and one can fully tide over the same in no time.

So let each one of us train our minds to never ask a question to our Lord "WHY ME?" for that would be an indication we still need to know and love our lord because it is a question which implies we are lacking faith , as humans , yes we surely do have our doubts but let us rise above the human plane and surrender our life to our lord , the pain and pleasure are his and as our  lord's beautiful and one of  the most important verse of our most divine Bhagavad Gita conveys " 

                      sarva-dharman parityajya
                      mam ekam saranam vraja
                        aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
                        moksayisyami ma sucah.

Translated it means our lord Sri Krishna has promised each one of us to  leave aside everything , merely surrender unto his lotus feet and that he would ensure total liberation for all those who have with a pure heart trusted him and believed in his magic as a creator.  Let us endeavour from this moment , to take life as it comes, to understand that the very pains which we are unable to bear binds us closest to our most beloved Lord Sri Krishna for happiness in most of the cases takes us away from our lord because  most of us tend to forget him in our happiest moments.

Let us bow our heads in the most reverential way to our lord and raise our hands upwards as an action of total surrender at the lotus feet of our most loved Lord Sri Krishna for only he can liberate us permanently.

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAAMA HARE RAAMA RAAMA RAAMA HARE HARE...........