How can we be grateful to Krishna in all situations?

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Even if we can’t Thank God for all Circumstances We can thank Him In all circumstances One of the biggest problems For those Devoted to God Is How to respond to problems What attitude Is Acceptable And what attitude is unacceptable For a devotee Once we Understand the philosophical truth That God Krishna Is the supreme controller Does that mean that We also have to be thankful To Krishna For all circumstances If a loved one Passes away or if a trusted Friend betrays us Or if we are Diagnosed with a Terrible disease Or if We are suddenly Laid off Or if there is a natural Disaster Which breaks havoc in our life Then Are we to thank God for all these Reversals? No, not necessarily That Certain situations are difficult They are Obstacles Is acknowledged by Krishna himself In the Bhagavad Gita When he states that In 18.56 He says He says Becoming conscious of me All obstacles You will overcome by my grace So here in Krishna Does acknowledge That certain situations are obstacles That they are not favorable To the practice of bhakti And so we may need to Deal with them accordingly In an unfavorable We may recognize them as unfavorable That this is Hostile to my bhakti This is not the way I expected My life to go about So now acknowledging that Certain thing is difficult Is Unfortunate Is unfavorable Now that is simply Accepting the reality of things As we perceive them As we experience them Our experience Our experience Is reality but it is not The only reality We can’t deny our experience Just like When a Child is taking An injection The child does feel pain And is it that the child is not Meant to feel pain If the Parents tell the child deny your pain The injection is not painful That’s not going to work Child is still going to feel pain So what the child needs to do is Look To the positive And as the child grows up The child will see the positive Now if an adult Gets a disease the adult may not be thankful For having the pain For having the disease Or even for having the Having to take the injection Or to do a surgery But we can always Find something to be Thankful In all circumstances So for example Although We may find the injection painful We can still be thankful that At least there is a That the disease is curable And it is Krishna who gave The intelligence to the researchers To find a cure for the disease And it is Krishna Who is going to act Through the medicine to cure us So we can be thankful To Krishna for the cure So we are not thankful for the disease So we can be thankful in all circumstances So for example When we When a loved one Passes away We can be at least For their passing away we may not be thankful Especially if they die prematurely Suddenly Then we can still be thankful That we have the knowledge That we are not the body but the soul That our loved one is Indestructible And has simply gone to another level of reality We can be thankful that We know the reality of Krishna’s love And that We can Ourselves find Shelter in that love Even when Some other source of love in this world Is Terminated And we can also Feel sheltered by knowing that The lord who loves us Also loves our loved one And in fact Krishna loves our loved ones More than What we can love them So Because Krishna loves them More than what we love them And more than what we can ever love them Then we can pray to Krishna And offer For them Some special Devotional Activities that we may do In this way we can benefit them also So to have the knowledge Of life’s spiritual dimension Is Something which is profoundly Consoling Amidst moments of distress and bereavement So similarly Whatever situation we are in We needn’t be thankful For that situation But we can be thankful in that Situation also By focusing not on the situation But focusing on Krishna And seeing that even in the situation Does not have an immediate solution Absorption in Krishna Connection with Krishna Is itself a source of strength And solace And for having that source of strength and solace For having Krishna within us And For having the knowledge And the process by which you can Perceive Krishna’s presence within us We can be thankful to him In all situations Thank you