Should we learn from the past or consider that whatever happened is God’s will?

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so sometimes we may say that whatever is happening is God’s will or sometimes we may feel that oh I could have done better in this situation so how do we reconcile that see certainly the whole purpose of the Bhagavad Gita is that’s ok I don’t think we need the mic I will just repeat that question so so we are definitely meant to choose more wisely so if we consider this is the present, this is the past, this is the future so what has happened in the past is it all for the good not necessarily that everything is good there are two different things everything that happens is good and everything that happens is for good the two are different things everything that happens is not good sometimes bad things happen in life when Draupadi is dishonored, nobody tells her jo hua achha hua that is a bad thing, it is a terrible thing that happened and the Pandavas take action instantly so if some bad things have happened then we can analyze, maybe I could have done like this I could have done like that but what is damaging is just going over it again and again and again and living in the past lamenting about the past and living in the past ok I made that mistake it’s over now but Krishna is so expert that he can bring some good even out of the bad so we could say at one level Yudhishthira’s decision to gamble was bad at least his decision to gamble so much was bad at that time Bhishma’s silence was bad but through it all Krishna brought out a good what was it? that Krishna demonstrated how he protects his devotees now that Krishna protected his devotees does not mean that Yudhishthira’s gambling was good or that Bhishma’s silence was good it was still bad so Yudhishthira he laments later he says I just got carried away at that time so the point is that in the past by looking at the past if you can learn ok I could have done like this I could have done like that and we learn from it then that’s positive but if we keep lamenting about it it’s bad so it’s not that everything that we have done is God’s will we have committed mistakes and they are not God’s will they are God’s sanction we wanted to do it and Krishna allowed us to do it but whatever has happened in the past Krishna can bring good out of it also so therefore we don’t lament too much about it Mahabharata says that lamentation achieves nothing except to sap the energy of the lamenter so we can acknowledge that in the past I made some mistakes but move on, learn from it what I can do to avoid mistakes in the future but move on it’s not that everything that happens is Krishna’s will some of it is Krishna’s sanction it’s not his will Krishna himself sent a Shanti Doota to avoid war Duryodhana still rejected him so Duryodhana’s rejection was not Krishna’s will Duryodhana was adamant about doing it and Krishna said ok I’ll sanction it we may also sometimes act like Duryodhana’s but Krishna can bring Duryodhana was consistently against Krishna we are sadhakas we may sometimes do some wrong things but we are not consistently against Krishna that’s the bad thing, I’ll come back on the track so Krishna can bring good even out of the bad does that answer your question? thank you