SB 01.09.16 – Accepting the inconceivability of Krishna’s plan is the only way to inner and outer stability

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Thank you Bhishma pitamah is continuing his analysis of the cause of suffering of the pandavas That nobody can know his plan, okay Anyone a person cannot know Vigyanaya If people try to do inquiry then Even the wise people get rebelled So Often a problem for Believers as well as non-believers Is if there is a good god, why is there bad in this world? And of course the non-believers have a simple solution they say there is no god only That’s why there is bad in this world. But then that solution Neglects many things the fact that there’s a lot of good in the world in terms of Organization design and it also doesn’t really help us to deal with the suffering the idea that is bad because everything is Operating by chance is a doctrine of helplessness now for the believers Yes, there is good in there is god is good that is the belief but then That belief seems to be countered by the presence of bad in the world and especially when the bad happens apparently for no reason And the bad happens to good people so Sometimes we as devotees Have a pat answer to this question.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Oh, it’s because of past karma So why is Bishu Pitamah saying that Why are the wise people bewildered About understanding this do they not know what we know as a pat answer or suffering comes because of bad karma actually the problem is that With respect to pandavas, you know, they are great souls Now what bad karma could they have done that they deserve such suffering and moreover When we look at suffering in our life Intellectually, we may be able to accept that Okay, maybe I had done some bad karma, but then emotionally the question will turn this did I really do so much bad karma? That I had to get so much suffering So This if we Deny the emotional aspect of the problem then what will happen is We will become hard-hearted hard-hearted towards those who are suffering and hard-hearted towards Krishna also who’s allowing the suffering So what we have to recognize is that even with karma is it explains but then we can’t know what karma who has done And why which karmic suffering is coming when? The best recourse when we get suffering is not to Go into an analysis some people You know even go to the extreme of say trying to do hypnotic regression to find out who are in the past life and what I did Okay, even if I came to know what I did that is how is that going to solve the problem now? I have to deal with the problem right now At a shorter level There is Sigmund Freud and his followers who do psychotherapy If I am having some mental problems right now Then I try to find out Okay, do some psychoanalysis what happened in my childhood which created impressions because of which I am suffering like this right now Eventually Prabhupada was asked about the childhood shocks, which may be causing our present suffering Prabhupada’s answer was Okay, even if you find out the childhood cause shocks, but still what about the future shocks that are going to come now? Their shocks are coming now the future shocks that are coming in the future so The important point is to prepare ourselves for what life is going to deal with us And one of the important things which you require in preparation for life is humility Humility means that Krishna’s intelligence is far greater than mine And therefore I cannot understand his plan Now does is this also a doctrine of helplessness or whatever happens I just have to deal with it and I just have to believe that Okay, it’s Krishna’s plan. No, not like that Although what happens to us is not comprehensible to us, but still What we can do Is clearly explained by Krishna At least in principle that we should whatever happens. We should try to come closer to him and We may not know When problems come in our life what we should actually do to come closer to Krishna but one thing we do know definitely is that We have to continue practicing devotional service so chanting hearing Studying sharing about Krishna if we do these things then that itself brings a level of stability in our life When everything else seems to be unstable And then from that platform of that foundation of stability We can again reconstruct and bring stability in other aspects of our life also so Accepting the inconceivability of the Lord’s plan Is a sign of humility and that brings stability to our life And from that platform of stability we can restore Stability in other aspects of our life, but if we just go into a why why why analysis? Why is this happening? Why is that happening? Then that deprives us of the stability that is possible by connecting with Krishna You know as long as we are questioning Krishna we cannot connect with Krishna so easily now that when the questions are When the question is submissive and inquisitive that is different but often our questions are charged when we are questioning Krishna, it’s more of a protest and a resentment and It’s filled with negative emotions So by accepting that Krishna knows best I have done some karma in the past And Krishna ultimately is a doctor who wants to cure me So a patient cannot understand very easily what surgeon or the doctor is doing and why this cut is being done and that cut is done But if the doctor is competent, then the patient knows I will be eventually cured I have to do my part.
Similarly if me and Let Krishna do his part Without resenting or rejecting and we focus on doing on our part By taking shelter of him and eventually we’ll see that Krishna will work out everything Right for us Gloriously right for us and will ultimately reinstate us in his eternal world