How can we know whether we are living according to Krishna’s plan for us?

So Prabhuji, often times in life we’re so used to saying this is Krishna’s plan for every coincidence that happens. So how do we know if we’re actually living according to Krishna’s plan for us or if we’re just interpreting everything as Krishna’s plan but truly only living with our own plan? Yeah, I’m thinking whether you’re asking me this question of Krishna’s plan. So see, we are not really meant to keep second-guessing ourselves throughout our life.

Is this Krishna’s plan? Is this Krishna’s plan? Even when Krishna was with Arjuna and Arjuna told Krishna, I’ll surrender to you, I will do your will. Even after that what happens? It is that, not that Krishna is micro-controlling Arjuna all the time. It is not that before Arjuna shoots each arrow, Arjuna is thinking, he’s shooting this arrow Krishna’s plan for me or not.

So the idea of harmonizing with Krishna’s plan is not meant to make us, to slow us down or to make us get into, as they say, paralysis by analysis or to make us constantly worried. The point of saying that Krishna has a plan for us but it is also Krishna, one part of Krishna’s plan is that we have our individuality and that we express our individuality. Krishna wants our individuality to be enriched, to be enhanced, to be expressed.

So therefore, it’s a more a matter of we trying to have the intention of serving Krishna. That Arjuna knew that I’m fighting this war for Krishna’s purpose. So we have the intention of serving and then with that intention of service, we are observing and course-correcting.

This is what I want to do. Is this what is happening? And if that is not happening, then we evaluate, like the river has the intention of going toward the ocean and while it is trying to go toward the ocean, it keeps evaluating. If I’m not going, then I have to course-correct.

So in that sense, we don’t have to keep worrying too much. Thank you.