Does Krishna have plans only for his pure devotees?
All the very best. Hey Krishna.
Does Krishna have plan only for his devotees? He says, I am the well-wisher of everyone. At this page, he says, I am in the heart of all living beings and I am guiding their wanderings. The next verse he is saying, surrender to me.
That means Krishna is not saying, I will guide you only after you have surrendered. He says, I am already guiding you, but you surrender to me, then I will guide you to a safe destination. So, Krishna has a plan for everyone.
Now, how much we cooperate with this plan is up to us. The purer we are, the more we will cooperate with this plan. It's like if there is a class, there is a school.
The school's purpose is that every student get very good marks and get promoted to the higher grades, higher and higher. That's the school's purpose. But the school also has a plan for students who may fail.
Okay, if you fail, then you can move on, but you have to do the subjects again. You fail many subjects, you do this whole class again. Or you fail so much, maybe you need to join a lower grade, do that and then you come up over here.
So, the purpose is for the students to get elevated. The plan includes students who can't get elevated. Similarly for us, Krishna's plan is, Krishna's plan includes everyone.
And how much we move forward, that may vary. But even if that, even you are not moving forward, Krishna has a plan for all of us. Krishna's plan is not necessarily like one straight line.
Only if I do this, it's Krishna's plan. If I do this, it's not Krishna's plan. Krishna's plan is dynamic.
If you think of it, Krishna's plan is not like a railway track. If you have to go from say, if I have to go from here to Portland, then there's a straight railway track which you'll go. But suppose somebody is flying, then it's not that there is a path laid out in the airway.
The plan has to exactly go by that path. In the airway, things may change. It may go this way a little bit, may go this way.
The same plane on two days may not go exactly the same path. But still, in the course correction, if it goes off track, it will eventually get to destination. So Krishna's plan, rather than seeing it as like a one predefined path, we can see it as one predefined direction.
So it's a direction that is fixed. It's not necessarily the path that is fixed. And so even if we go a little bit off course, Krishna can get.