Tag Archive for ‘Krishna’
Why does Krishna stop us from enjoying when he himself enjoys so much?
To hear the answer, please click Answer Summary: 1. What we call as enjoyment is actually concealed suffering. 2. To understand Krishna’s activities, we need to understand his position eg. Surgeon and tribal 3. Krishna doesn’t want to stop our enjoyment, but to give us real enjoyment. eg movie vs reality, reflected mango vs real [...]
18.73 – An intellectual adventure with an emotional climax
We have two essential faculties: the head and the heart. The head is our intellectual center and the heart, our emotional center. The Bhagavad-gita being a book of intellectual adventure with an emotional climax addresses both of our core faculties. Let’s see how. Intellectual Adventure: The Gita charts a clear pathway for us through the [...]
13.16: When Krishna seems far away….
The Bhagavad-gita (13.16) states that Krishna is situated far away from us – and is simultaneously very close to us. Paradoxical scriptural statements like these refer not only to the inconceivable attributes of Krishna, but also to our changing, conflicting feelings while trying to approach him. During our spiritual practices like praying, chanting or meditating, [...]
The Gita’s Message of Love
Love is one of the most spoken and least understood words. Love is commonly equated with sensual enjoyment, but does such superficial titillation offer substantial satisfaction to the heart? The suffering of the stomach hungry for food is well-recognized, but the agony of the heart hungry for love is often overlooked. In our love-starved society, [...]
Hurry Worry Sorry ()
In youth, we are mostly in a state of hurry, having so many things to do and imagining that we can bend the world to our will. In middle age, we are mostly in a state of worry, having learnt through life’s hard lessons that so many things may go wrong and fearing that we [...]
Krishna Consciousness – Our Love-hungry Heart ()
(continued from yesterday) Love for the heart: Our deepest hunger is our heart’s hunger for love. When we are starved of love, that starvation strangles our desire to live; love-less living soon becomes life-less living. To make life worth living, all of us offer our love somewhere, be it to a person or a possession [...]
Is forgiveness practical?
Question: Spiritual wisdom-traditions often glorify forgiveness as a virtue, but isn’t it impractical and foolish to forgive someone who repeatedly hurts us? Answer: When someone hurts us, forgiving that person is our best response. But often our indignant emotions make us overlook the subtle but vital line that differentiates forgiving a person from trusting a [...]
Why didn’t we find gold and diamonds during the Dwarka excavations as were said to be existing in the scriptural Dwarka?
To hear the answer podcast, please click here The below brief point-wise summary is meant only for quick preview or review. To get the complete and coherent answer, please hear the audio. Dwarka finding – Prof Rao Krishna’s historicity documentary film at saraswatifilms.org Recent finding by archaeologist Dr Ashok Marathe of an 8000 year old [...]
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