We need to forgive ourselves to give ourselves to Krishna
[Sunday feast class at ISKCON, Portand, USA]
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thank you and if we have to give ourselves to Krishna that’s what we want to do in Bhakti offer ourselves to Krishna then we have to forgive ourselves why? I talked about two reasons first is that we are our only resource if our car is not working well but if we don’t have the other car, we just kick the car or beat the car or bang the car in frustration we will not get anywhere if a person’s car is not working they may want to move, drive it others will help, but they have to be inside pushing it also if a person falls in the well, others can help them come up but they have to play their part of holding on to the rope also if we beat ourselves so much that we become discouraged then no one can help us Krishna can’t help us generally when mistakes happen when things go wrong, anger can either go outwards where it becomes verbal or physical violence towards others or anger can go inwards where it becomes depression, inferiority complex and ultimately suicide so by forgiving ourselves, just like forgiving others we let go of the anger towards them similarly by forgiving ourselves we let go of our anger towards ourselves talk about how Parikshit Maharaj did not hold his mistake against himself and beat himself up by that it was a mistake to garland a snake to garland with a snake a sage but we need to be responsible for our actions but we don’t have to blame ourselves for our actions this action was wrong blame means simply beating ourselves up constantly so even if we can’t be grateful for all situations we can be grateful in all situations by looking at the good in that situation bad has happened what is the good still there in my life what is the good that is helping me to deal with this bad situation and looking at that we can feel positive and we can avoid becoming resentful but instead stay grateful and the second reason how we can forgive ourselves is that no mistake is fatal no mistake is catastrophic Krishna’s plan accommodates our mistakes if we take a wrong turn the GPS still reroutes and guides us along so Krishna’s plan rather than moving along the railway track it is like flying through there the overall direction is important not the specific project so even if we go off track as soon as we realize if we don’t keep beating ourselves but as soon as we realize we come back on track Krishna will take us onwards Krishna’s plan is such that his plan is far greater than our capacity to commit mistakes to think that our mistakes will doom us and even Krishna can’t help us that is not humility, that is ego we are not so big that we can thwart Krishna’s plan and then I talked about how when we are practicing when we are going through our life whatever mistakes we may have committed we just stay connected with Krishna then Krishna will guide us through that Krishna is always with us and whatever karma may get us to Krishna will get us through thank you very much pray Krishna are there any questions or comments? yes please