Tolerance in the Face of Dualities

Now that our April-June world preaching tour is confirmed and ticketed we are looking to finalize our September-January world preaching tour. After many days of work and making so many arrangements we were informed by the airline that the booking that THEY made was not according to THEIR rules and they cancelled it. Now after being misguided by an inattentive airline booking agent we are starting all over again practically from scratch to devise our itinerary. In Krishna's service there are many ups and downs. We have learned from Lord Krishna and from the previous acharyas that one has to tolerate these dualities without being disturbed. Today's upheaval was a great opportunity to apply the Lord's teachings.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Proof that No One Devolves?

Namaste. I don't know chapter and verse, but somewhere in the Gita, Lord Krishna says, "I preserve what they have and I carry what they lack."

Doesn't this prove that we never can degrade ourselves and evolve into lower species of life? But rather, that we are always advancing, or at least staying at the same karmic level? Please clarify my doubt.

God bless you for your kind service over the years.

Love always...Tommi

Answer: Only True for Devotees

You have omitted the first half of the verse. Krishna says that He does this for those who worship Him with exclusive devotion meditating on His transcendental form. Those who do not fully absorb themselves in His loving devotional service do not obtain the same result. In other words, you obtain whatever you meditate upon. If you are fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness you attain the Lord's abode. If you meditate on sense gratification you obtain a body which has better facility for sense gratification than the human body, namely the body of an animal. Krishna is completely fair. Man proposes and God disposes. You get whatever your absorb your consciousness in because by this you are showing the Lord exactly what you want.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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