God Takes Our Potential Seriously Do We Gita 18.61

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possible future for ourselves.
Thank you. God takes our potential seriously. Do we? Suppose a coach takes the potential of a player seriously, that means that even if that player doesn’t perform so well, the coach sticks by them, giving them facilities, opportunities, encouragement, but unfortunately that player doesn’t play seriously, doesn’t practice adequately, doesn’t do workouts seriously, then getting the opportunities is not enough.
It’s important to get inner, this thing also, to take the opportunity, don’t get seriously also. So, this is the predicament with us sometimes, unfortunately, that if we consider that we all are seeking to perform in the world, and God is the ultimate coach, then He takes our potential seriously. We all think of the term potential in terms of our material talents, and those are significant, those are potential, but beyond the specific material talents that we may or may not have, we also have profound spiritual potential.
There is a potential to attain life and love eternal. If we direct our love toward the divine, you can experience that, release that unlimited love. So, the first thing to recognize is that Krishna stays with us.
We are souls or parts of God, occupying bodily machines, and as we wander in material existence, life after life, He stays with us. After completing that, what happens next? After being available for us, and thereby showing that He takes our potential seriously, we need to do our part by taking our potential seriously, but unfortunately, we lose heart sometimes when there are difficulties, or we don’t put our heart in the first place because of lethargy. And even if we work hard to develop our material potential, we hardly work hard to develop our spiritual potential.
But if we do learn to persevere, we will discover that by God’s grace, we all can make a significant material contribution, and most importantly, we can develop a fulfilling spiritual connection that can enrich us independent of the size of our material contribution. We just need to persevere. That faithful perseverance is the indication that we are taking our potential seriously.
Even if a buried treasure, if the treasure hunter doesn’t dig adequately, they can’t get the buried treasure. Similarly, the potentials within us can’t be