Be Prepared for Anything

The easiest way to be prepared for whatever reality dishes out is to be prepared for anything. We should not put any limits on what we will find to be acceptable. If we demand that our life's experiences be confined to certain parameters, we are setting ourselves up for certain disappointment. The fact is that according to our previous pious and impious activities each of us is slated to undergo a variety of good and bad reactions. Since we are presently caught up in the cycle of birth and death, we can understand that in our previous lifetimes we must have been engaged in sinful activities. Therefore it should not be surprising to us that that we have to undergo periodic reverse situations. The key is to take them in a positive spirit seeing them as our being cleansed of our past sinful activities and thus purified and facilitated in our attempt to go back to our original home in the spiritual sky.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Does Krishna Want to Kill Me or Protect Me?

You said earlier that if Krishna wants to kill you, no one can help you. If on the other hand, Krishna wants to protect, no one can hurt you. Then what does Krishna want for me. To kill me or protect me?

Regarding the original source of all things, the scientists and religionists each have their opinion. Who is to say which is correct?

Regards,

Henry

Answer: So Far He's Protecting You

Since you are still alive, obviously Krishna has been protecting you thus far. And when the time comes for your passing out from your body, your death will come by the arrangement of Krishna. So your living is under the sanction of Krishna, and your dying is also under the sanction of Krishna. A devotee fully trusts the plans of the Lord and accepts both his living and eventual dying as the loving arrangements of the Lord. Therefore he is never under any anxiety in any circumstances of living or dying.

At the present moment I am answering your questions typing the answers into a laptop computer. If I have a question about the operation of this computer, I will consult the company which manufactured it because the manufacturing company is the highest authority regarding the operation of this laptop computer. Similarly, if I have a question regarding the original source of everything, I will consult Lord Sri Krishna because He is the manufacturer of reality itself. All of existence is manifest because Krishna is emanating it from His transcendental form.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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