Is everything that happens Krishna’s plan?

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if the various things that happen in our life are they by chance are they controlled by Krishna I would say that work through all situations that means that it is not necessary that everything that happens is so because people have their free will and by their free will sometimes we may make a bad choice sometimes another person may make a bad choice so when people are choosing in this random ways it’s not that necessarily that everything that happens is Krishna’s plan but Krishna is expert enough to include everything in his plan yeah he will make his plan work through it all that means he has a particular purpose to fulfill and he wants to help us grow spiritually he wants us to come to him so that purpose he will fulfill through whatever whoever does that is his expertise but that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything that everyone is doing is Krishna’s plan so even if others make mistakes then it doesn’t mean that it is Krishna’s arrangement there are two ways of looking at it the person who has made a mistake should learn to take responsibility and avoid making that mistake again yeah but if he doesn’t do that but for those who are affected adversely by the mistake they can see at both levels that ok this has happened now Krishna will bring good out of this but at another that is an internal or spiritual level but at practical level you have to see also that this person has this weakness so in this regard I cannot trust this person so we have to be dependent on Krishna at the same time we have to be intelligent for Krishna so we have to see practically different people have different weaknesses, different people have different shortcomings different people have careless nature if they make a mistake then what do we see that they can’t be trusted for this and what has happened Krishna can bring good out of it also so what is that cheat me once shame on you what is that something like cheat me once, cheat me twice shame on you cheat me thrice shame on me that means you know if somebody is cheating us multiple times and if we keep trusting them that that’s our fault now yes if somebody has cheated us it’s bad thing for them but if they are showing it by the action that is their habitual nature then for us to trust them that is our stupidity so we have to be intelligent so that means if something has already happened we accept it, whether it’s Krishna’s plan or not it’s very difficult to decide but Krishna can make his plan work through it also but we have also been given intelligence and we have to make intelligent choices so for the future we try to use our intelligence as well as we can so once when the devotees were going for book distribution and they were driving very fast and they made a terrible accident and several devotees in the van died this was many years ago in 1970 so the devotee asked Prabhupada was this Krishna’s arrangement Prabhupada said they are KLF they are KLF so one devotee says that you know when you start driving above the speed limit Krishna leaves the car so it is that we have to we have to take our responsibility properly if we don’t take our responsibility we can’t say that Krishna has to take care of everything so our mistakes will have our consequences