If we feel Krishna has let us down in the past how can we depend on him?

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how can we become dependent on Krishna when we feel like we have been let down by him in the past yes when we feel that Krishna has let us down the problem often is that we have defined the terms of the relationship in our terms so when we go to god say Krishna lets form a relationship the terms of the relationship is I have this problem I can’t solve it but you are strong enough to solve this so the term is my intelligence and your strength and lets solve this problem now Krishna is not just stronger than us he is also wiser than us so if we half trust Krishna I trust your strength but not your intelligence you take my intelligence and you work accordingly then Krishna doesn’t work like that everybody likes to serve god is that true? everybody likes to serve god? you say no but yes everybody likes to serve god as an advisor even atheists who don’t believe in god they also like to advise if god had existed he would have made this plant like this he would have made this organ like this he would have done like that so their non-existent god pops into existence whenever they want to give advice to him accepts their advice gratefully and then pops back into non-existence so rather than thinking that Krishna has let us down we have to know that Krishna works according to his plan so if we make our relationship with Krishna conditional to the fulfillment of a particular prayer in a particular way then we will find that we will be frustrated but if we just pray to Krishna Krishna with my intelligence this is the problem and this I feel is the solution but you know best please guide me so that I can go through this situation please give me the strength to serve you if you have this understanding then whatever comes in our life we will be able to go through it we feel something that Krishna has let us down because our frame of reference and Krishna’s frame of reference are different we look at the present and plan for the future Krishna looks at the future and plans for the present so a child who has got some pain in the stomach goes to a doctor and thinks the doctor will do something for my pain to go away but the doctor takes out an injection hey what is this? they are increasing my pain but now the doctor sees the future this infection can become worse so let me give you this medicine now I was in Florida in Fort Lauderdale I was speaking to this point after that one Russian Mataji she came and told me about an incident she was in one of our temples in New Vrindavan which is on top of a mountain, remote area she had gone there and then some situation had come up at her job so she had to immediately leave and that’s a remote place, not much communication available so she came to know that one devotee was going next morning and she asked that devotee, I can take you just come by at this place at 10 o’clock so she came there by 9.50 she was waiting 10, 10.15 10.30, she was trying to call the phone was not reaching and she was waiting and getting angrier and angrier, where did this person go? and finally at 11.40 the range went through, because it’s a mountainous area the range was not open and he said, oh I forgot, I am sorry now I have gone too far, I can’t come back now and the range went off, she was furious how could you forget I was waiting for two hours, if you had told me I would have done some other event there is no other way, she was heaving with anger and then she came back and she was doing some doing some service in the temple then that evening another mataji told her, you know that boy who was there that young man said, yes his car was hit by a drunk driver and he is in the hospital and when she enquired further she found that, actually he had some minor injuries but that drunk driver had hit full on the passenger side and if she had been there she would have been fine so she realized that in this particular case she understood Krishna had a plan so sometimes how, what Krishna is doing is good for us we may understand in six hours sometimes it may take six years sometimes it may take sixty years so we may or may not understand anything, if instead of asking Krishna for a specific solution to a problem if we ask for strength to face whatever comes in our life, then we will realize that Krishna will never let us down he will give us the strength to face problems so rather than thinking of our relationship with Krishna as a means to get our problems solved we can see that Krishna can toughen us internally, so that even when problems come, he gives us the strength to face them and overcome them, to go through them, in a way