We have to tolerate the dualities.

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We Have to Tolerate the Dualities

This material world is full of dualities. Sometimes we are a wealthy. Sometimes we are poor. Sometimes we are healthy. Sometimes we are diseased. Sometimes we are honored. Sometimes we are dishonored. Sometimes we are loved. Sometimes we are hated. These dualities come and go like night and day and the changing of the seasons. We have to learn how to tolerate them without being disturbed.

This is confirmed by Lord Sri Krishna in Bhagavad-gita 2.14:

mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya
śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ
āgamāpāyino 'nityās
tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata

"O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."

It is easy to say this. But it is not always easy to do this when we are attacked by heavy dualities. We have to beg Krishna to help us be successful in doing this.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Questions and Answers

Sir, I humbly want you ask about Lord Krishna and His 16,000 wives. How's this possible that He had 10 kids with all His 16,000 wives. Were they all had their own version of krishna or there was just One krishna? Please tell me and explain Srimad Bhagavatam 10.61.1.

Prerit Kumar

Answer

From: Calcutta, India

My Dear Prerit,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.61.1 states,

"Each of Lord Kṛṣṇa's wives gave birth to ten sons, who were not less than their father, having all His personal opulence.”

They were all individual persons and each one of them had unlimited power, unlimited beauty, unlimited renunciation, unlimited knowledge, unlimited wealth, and unlimited fame.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,

Sankarshan Das Adhikari


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