If a tide pushes us towards success is that tide Krishna?

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So, if a thief pushes us towards success, is that thief Krishna? Yes and no. I mean in the sense that anybody who is successful in this world, there has to be factors which are in their control and factors which are beyond their control, which determine their success. So, now we could say that ultimately nothing happens without Krishna’s control.
So, Krishna is involved in everyone’s becoming successful. But the important thing is how is that person seeing it. So, say somebody like Hitler, that person by past karma was meant to become a powerful head of state.
But how they use that power, that is up to them. The person can use that power to cause harm, to kill so many people. So, that means there is, see, one way of understanding is that all good qualities, all good things, they come from Krishna.
But all good things don’t take us to Krishna necessarily. Somebody has, Hitler was a very great orator. He could electrify people with his speeches.
So, Krishna says all attractive things come from, everything attractive reflects a spark of my spirit. So, his oratory skill came from Krishna. But his oratory skill did not take him to Krishna.
He misused it terribly, misled people, misled himself. You get the karmic consequences of that. So, yes, it is the tile of destiny which pushes us towards success.
We can say that it ultimately comes from Krishna. Intermediately just our own past karma comes upon us. But whether it takes us towards Krishna or not, that is most important.
And that depends on what we do with the talents that we have, what we do with the success that we achieve.