If others’ love for us is Krishna’s love coming through them does that apply to their anger too?

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So if people’s love for us is coming from Krishna, is Krishna’s love coming for them? Yes. Like that, yeah.
Not necessarily. At one level, Krishna is the source of everything. But at the same time, Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says, Aham sarvasya prabodhit.
Everything comes from Him. But then, in the same chapter, in 10.41, it says that everything attractive manifests a spark of His love. Does that mean that unattractive things don’t come from Him? Attractive things also do come from Him.
But Krishna’s focus over that chapter is that that which captures our consciousness, that we should see its connectedness with Him so that we can become connected with Him, ultimately. So in this particular case, when we see our negative actions, we see that from the scriptural perspective, there is no such thing as darkness existing. Darkness is simply the absence of light.
Similarly, negative emotions are in a sense the result of the absence of positive emotions. So that means it is not that it is Krishna’s anger that is manifesting. It is rather that person’s lack of Krishna consciousness that is causing… That person’s lack of Krishna consciousness is because of their lower emotions are manifesting.
That’s one thing. That’s one possibility. Another possibility is also that especially those who are directly connected with Krishna.
For example, if our spiritual master is angry with us, that means that Krishna’s anger is manifesting through them. So if somebody thinks they are directly connecting for the benefit of Krishna, in that case, you can say it is Krishna’s anger manifesting. But otherwise, generally when people’s negative emotions we encounter them, you see them as a result of their own lack of Krishna consciousness.
Just as the darkness is simply the lack of light, similarly, if it’s a non-devotee, then they will never have Krishna consciousness. So what do you mean by lack of Krishna consciousness? Lack of Krishna consciousness simply means in this case that actually, sometimes people by their past karma and their present choices, they manifest certain virtues. Sometimes people behave kindly.
They have a kind nature and they behave kindly. Sometimes some people just have a harsh nature or they behave harshly. So we see that their capacity for kindness and their kind actions, they are the result of their using their freedom properly.
In some cases, they are acting harshly as a result of their misusing their freedom. So if they have Krishna consciousness, they do not misuse their freedom. In this particular situation, they do not have Krishna consciousness.
So we may not be able to see directly the connection with Krishna in the specific emotions that we are experiencing. But we see that, as I said, some people pull us towards Krishna with their love. Some people push us towards Krishna with their negativity.
So you can see this is how Krishna is acting. In a sense, for Dhruva Maharaj to go to the old Patel Vishnu, his mother, she guided him. But his father was also, in a sense, a part of him.
His father had not neglected him. So it’s not that his father gets the credit for it. His father had no intention of helping him like that.
Krishna’s father was part of him. So in that sense, we can see that they are also part of Krishna’s plan. But it’s not necessarily that their specific emotion is reflective of the emotion of Krishna.