Whatever Krishna Does is All Right

It is 8:37pm on Monday the 21st of November. As I write this we are flying from Austin to Minneapolis. Our plane departed from Austin way behind schedule. We are supposed to have already landed in Minneapolis, but we are still half an hour away. This is a major problem because we have a very tight connection for our ongoing flight to Amsterdam. Normally a flight is closed 15 minutes before its departure time. This is just the time that we are supposed to land. This means that we will miss our connection. And it could mean that we will also miss our ongoing flight from Amsterdam to Doha, Qatar. This will create so many problems. What can we do in such circumstances? All we can do is peacefully chant Hare Krishna and put ourselves fully in the Lord's care. Whatever Krishna does is all right.

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It now 2:55 am Minneapolis time on Tuesday the 22nd of November time. We are crossing over the tip of Greenland in the midst of our trans-Atlantic flight. Krishna took really good care of us in Minneapolis. When we got off from our flight from Austin an airport official asked if we were going to Amsterdam. We told him that we were. He informed us of a vehicle waiting to immediately drive us to our departure gate. Mataji and I quickly walked up the ramp and boarded the vehicle. It was really Krishna's grace because we would have never made it on foot in time. We had about 60 seconds to make it to our gate, but it was in an entirely different terminal. We got on the vehicle quickly while the driver helped us to load our carry-on luggage. He then immediately drove off to our departure gate without waiting for any more passengers. When we arrived, sure enough, everyone had already boarded. An airport official was waving to us to hurry to the boarding gate, and we did. They had been holding the plane for us. Whatever Krishna does is all right!!

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Do People Die Prematurely?...

In the talk given in April 1968 at Boston University's Marsh Chapel, Srila Prabhupada said that "From your childhood body to your boyhood body to your youthful body, your consciousness continues. Similarly, your consciousness will carry you into another body, and that transmigration from one body to another is called death. When your old body cannot be maintained anymore, the consciousness has to be transferred to a new body. When your garment is too old, it has to be changed. Similarly, when the material body is too old to carry on, your consciousness is transferred to another body and you begin another life. The is the law of nature."

If this is the law of nature, why do some people die during childhood, youth, or middle age, or even in the womb of a mother before he is born? Why do not every one of us die at an old age?

Purnendu Baroowa

Answer: Sinful Reactions...

Many die prematurely because of karmic reactions from this and/or previous lifetimes. They have done something very sinful and now they must bear the reaction in the form of premature death.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari