We know Krishna loves devotees, still we offend them – how can we stop this?

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we know Krishna loves everyone still we tend to think other people don’t achieve me and we tend to offend them what can we do about this we all need to situate ourselves in our relationship with Krishna and we need to find our identity in that relationship till we find our identity in relationship with Krishna we will always be insecure in our position in the material world in our interactions with others that means what if i see somebody is better than me i may be nervous if i see somebody does something stupid i may be insecure is anybody noticing me so the real problem is not just some extreme behavior the real problem is actually this we hardly check the wrong behavior but just checking the wrong behavior is like putting a bandage on the wound without disinfecting the wound putting a bandage is important but along with that i should also disinfect the wound so like that when we start finding that we have inappropriate behaviors towards other people we can look deeper and find out what is it that is making me behave like this is it that i feel that if that devotee becomes more famous i will become devalued am i somehow thinking that in his success lies my failure so all of us have our own misconceptions about the nature of happiness about the nature of happiness and these misconceptions make us do wrong actions so with our philosophical study we should understand those misconceptions and counter those misconceptions counter those misconceptions then what will happen is we will be able to stop those wrong actions at the foundation so more importantly making sure that i don’t do wrong activities with other devotees i should try to see how i can intensify my relationship with them how i can gain security and self worth in my relationship with them so i see what talents i have what is my nature and in that when you become situated then you will ask yourself happiness and once you get happiness all the errors will go otherwise by just thinking that i should not do that i should not do that i should not do that no, not, not, not so focus on finding out the bhakti we shouldn’t try we don’t have to empty the wrong desires out of the mind we should crowd the wrong desires out of the mind empty the wrong desires out of the mind don’t do this, don’t do this we just fill our mind with don’t, don’t, don’t when the mind doesn’t, it can’t remain a bhakti rather it should crowd those desires that means we find out what clicks for me in bhakti what will make me tick in bhakti and what makes me happy in bhakti and i start doing that more and more and then as i start doing it more and more the desires to do that will fill my mind and then all these negative desires, all these negative attitudes will get crowded out of me so yes, at a physical level if we are behaving wrongly, we should try to check that but also go deeper and find out what are the wrong conceptions that are making me do that and more importantly find out how i can get rid of that if i do that, then all these complexities in themselves get crowded out of our consciousness