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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 86 – 10.14.53-61 – Vrajavasis love their children as parts of Krishna and therefore love the Whole more
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 85 – 10.14.43-52 – Unravelling the mystery of the Vrajavasis disproportionate love for Krishna
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 84 – 10.14.37-42 – Brahma acknowledges his insignificance before Krishna’s magnificence and munificence
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 83 – 10.14.31-36 – Brahma glorifies Vrajavasis and aspires for their dust
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Aren’t we trivializing initiation by equating the promises of initiation with the promises of hearing Krishna’s pastimes?
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 82 – 10.14.25-30 Devotion is the doorway and pathway to a life beyond illusion and liberation
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When we fail in life, how can we immediately understand that past karma is at work?
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Question: When we fail in life how can we immediately understand that past karma is at work

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It is not necessary that we always have to resort to past karma only. Suppose on a cold night somebody eats ten ice creams. And then the next morning, they have a terrible throat and they say, ice cream! Now, their terrible throat, is it because of past karma? Yeah, past night karma.

It’s not that everything that happens to us is just because of past karma. There is a combination of present karma and past karma which comes together in giving us certain results. That’s why we have to be practical also. That means if I am doing something and I am not getting the result then is there something that I could do to improve it? We should think about it. We should not think that it is past karma. In one sense, over-reliance on past karma as explanation will make us very passive and fatalistic. Over reliance on present karma will make us very insecure and volatile because every failure we will start taking it too personally.

So, if I don’t do well in an exam, sometimes it may be that I may not have studied, but sometimes I have studied well, but still I didn’t do well in an exam. Sometimes it happens that people try to form a relationship and it doesn’t work. It could be that there is something wrong with me, but sometimes it’s just that the other person is at fault. We shouldn’t presume that, but sometimes it can be like that. Sometimes some people are just abusive, some people are terrible. Then something doesn’t work out. In today’s culture where people have dating and everything, if somebody breaks up with them people feel so insecure after that. They feel maybe I am unloved; I will be unlovable. People become very insecure. One of the top ten fears of people in today’s world is the fear of rejection that I form a relationship and I may get rejected by someone.

If we rely too much on present karma then what happens? Our life becomes very volatile. We become very unstable because we take everything very personally. But sometimes things don’t have to be taken so personally. So, we have to put things in the right frame of reference. Normally the immediate cause-effect is the first frame of reference. Suppose if I go for a program somewhere and there is nobody there for the program. Now, I could take it personally and say I am such a poor speaker that nobody comes. That could be true but suppose that program has been done at a place where at the same time there is some other big event going on and everybody has gone there. Then I have to put it in that context. I remember I went for a program in one country and the host invited me in. He said, actually I’m going for that […]

Bhagavatam tenth canto study 80 – 10.14.13-18 – Brahma contextualizes his bewilderment in terms of his and others’ past bewilderment
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 79 – 10.14.7-12 – Practicing devotion gratefully while accepting responsibility for our difficulties opens the door to liberation
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When people don’t get what they desire, they sometimes become angry and sometimes depressed – are anger and depression twins
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 78 – 10.14.1-6 Krishna is known by devotional hearing, not by intellectual probing
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 76 – 10.13.50-56 – Brahma sees all universal opulences sheltered in the Vishnus expanded from Krishna
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 75 – 10.13.39-49 – The content of metaphors may be opposing, but their intent is concurring
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 74 – 10.13.28-38 Krishna’s illusion is so powerful that even Balarama requires special situation to see through that illusion
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