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Was Ravana intelligent in fighting Rama, knowing that his followers would get liberation by being killed by Rama?
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The painkiller of entertainment is easily available, but does the cure of enlightenment needs to be given by someone enlightened
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 73 – 10.13.21-27 How Krishna as the expanded gopas and calves reciprocated love with the motherly gopis and cows
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Just as our strengths are manifestations for a higher being, are our weaknesses manifestations of some being?
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 72 – 10.13.11-20 – Krishna makes even a big disturbance into a no disturbance
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 70 – 10.12.37-44 – If ecstasy pulls us out of our service, we need to pull ourselves out of that ecstasy
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 69 – 10.12.29-36 – Krishna fulfilled the desire of the gopas to have Agha’s body as a plaything
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If someone hurts us repeatedly, is that because of our past karma?
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Question: If someone hurts us repeatedly, is that because of our past karma?

Answer: A lot depends on specifics, but I will give some broad principles.
There is a love that guards and there is a love that guides. That means that love is the same, but if a small child, maybe two or three years old, goes and, while playing with a ball, breaks the neighbour’s window, the parents will say it’s okay, do not worry about it, we will pay for it. Now, if a child does something wrong, the parents stand next to the child and guard the child from the results. But if a teenager or adult child does something like that, then at that time, it is the love that has to guide. If the parents keep guarding the child from the consequences of their actions, then what happens? The child keeps doing the wrong thing. Guarding children from the consequences of their actions in the name of love is actually a disservice to them.

I was in Connecticut, I had gone to a seminar on spirituality and mental health and addictions. A whole group of addicts and their family members were there. There was one man who was a little older, 65 to 70 years, and there was a girl with him who was five years old. After the class, I was talking with them. They were both Americans. He told me that she is his granddaughter. He said that his daughter had become a drug addict and she was taking more and more drugs. She would borrow money from me and never return. Then I retired and one day she broke into my house and stole all of my life savings. Not only that, while she went to get a big haul of drugs, she left her daughter in her home alone and there’s some kind of electrical wiring which went off, and there was a fire. I had to run and save her at that time. When both of these incidents happened in quick succession, till then I was trying to help her. But then I did a court case against her due to which she had to go to a de-addiction center. Then I filed for custody of my granddaughter. At that time my daughter was very angry with me. She said what kind of father are you? You are taking my own daughter away from me and sending me to jail. She is still in the addiction centre getting treatment. She is gradually becoming a little sober. She is understanding that what I did for her was good. Even after she comes out, she’s not going to get her daughter back. My granddaughter is going to be with me.

That is an extreme example. But in general, if somebody is an addict, bot only they are to be counselled, but often their family members also have to be counselled. There is a concept called codependency. Codependency means that the addict’s care providers […]

If someone is facing with a life-threatening disease, how can we explain to them that life has a higher purpose?
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 67 – 10.12.12-17 The inability to tolerate others’ happiness defines the demonic
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 65 – 10.11.50-59 Huge demons become like moths on coming before the Krishna-fire
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Bhagavatam tenth canto study 64 – 10.11.41-49 For Krishna, killing demons is all in a day’s play, that too before breakfast
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