Spirituality Does Not Put Food On The Table!

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 5/6/2013 4:48:00 AM

'True spirituality does not put food on the table.You cannot earn or take a livelihood if you are a true spiritualist.Your frugal food and other requirements are met only by the divine through the agents nominated by the divine itself. These may be some very pious folks or associations connected to the spiritual.We often mistake religion to spiritual and sometimes we believe that one is in spiritual whereas that individual is purely into devotional service for profit alone.Spirituali(...)'

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Which Path Is Suitable Today?

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 12/17/2012 5:16:00 AM

'Which path in spiritual is the right one?This question was asked by one of my disciples in the satsang.Let us see which path can be more suitable here and now.The discussion always starts with Dnyana or Knowledge path.The idea is to dissect God in many ways so as to know Him. Making a mincemeat of God, you can hardly find the truth about Him. You will only find the bits and pieces about Him. Mansur Al Hallaj himself was cut to pieces for saying Anal Haq! Its extremely difficult in t(...)'

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Why Do We Celebrate Festivals?

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 10/24/2012 6:59:00 AM

'There are so many festivals in the Hindu pantheon that we feel every single day is a feast.We celebrate our own birthday and expect everyone to remember it and bring some presents.We hope that they will cut a cake and take us out for a treat.If no one remembers it we feel terrible and want to shut up the world.Festivals are the way of celebration and activity which brings us closer to the truth.Celebrations of these festivals are ways of appeasing the Gods and thanking those involve(...)'

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Myths-Stories For Simple Minds!

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 10/22/2012 5:58:00 AM

'When we look at our mythological stories we wonder sometimes whether we are telling our kids the truth or are we telling them lies.They sound so unreal and full of unbelievable stuff.Take the case of Ramayana where we get to meet a Demon King from Lanka with ten heads. No archaeological fact can support that kind of creature.If that were the case then we should have found some sort of mummified bodies, remains of some bones, some sort of evidence which would firm up our belief in th(...)'

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Sakshatkar-Direct Perception?

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 10/17/2012 7:15:00 AM

'Someone asked me if we can have direct perception of the Lord Himself and I answered that it cannot happen in the way you think about it.First let us understand what kind of God you are thinking about first and foremost.Is He the One you see in the temple or places of worship or is He the One you do not know anything about?So let us start from the beginning as to what you believe in.There are people who perform miracles and magic tricks and then our belief sticks to them.Producing a(...)'

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Gurukul And Guruadesh!

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 9/27/2012 9:34:00 AM

'Yesterday when I was asked by my disciple why does a person have to be in front of his Guru to get knowledge and not behind a phone or a video?The Ashrams in India and worldwide teach us to stay in the vicinity of the Guru so that we can get correct knowledge.The Ashram life is not the same as the life we spend in our own house.We do not have strict disciplines at home. We get up when we want, take an off when we want, laze around, procrastinate, take too many things for granted, kn(...)'

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I Don't Like What You Do!

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 9/7/2012 6:44:00 AM

'I was very surprised to see this comment in my inbox yesterday and it was written by one of my dearest friends. He said that he did not like what I do! In spiritual!So why did I join the spiritual bandwagon and what is it that makes me write such stuff on this topic?He truly seemed flabbergasted and wanted to know the whys and the wherefores of it!Spiritual does not happen to a person the way you may get married or pass your school or college.It is mentioned in the holy texts that u(...)'

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Swadhrama

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 8/30/2012 8:45:00 AM

'Though I have written many times on this topic, there always seems to be no percolation and seepage happening so I write again about this topic called swadharma. Swadharma can be loosely defined as that which comes to you naturally as your duty in this creation.Now we tend to think that there are things that we need to do by which we can save million lives or save humanity from the evils of this world. Having an indomitable spirit and braving all calamities we need to do some unimag(...)'

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The Predictions!

Author : Krishna Rao      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 8/22/2012 8:54:00 AM

'In Brahma Vaivarta Purana there are the following verses."Marriage purified by sacred mantras will no longer exist.  There will be notruthfulness and no forgiveness. Men will  associate with women only for sex.""No woman will be chaste. In home after home the wife will be  unchaste, alwaysrunning after men. The wife will treat her husband like her  servant. She willalways rebuke him and make him tremble in fear.""Everyone will do as they please. Devoted only to b(...)'

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Life Worth Living?

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 8/7/2012 6:33:00 AM

'Just a few days ago one of my friends wrote to me about the death of his mentor-Lalit Sheth.He asked me why such type of things happen to people and if I can make any sense in it!Shankara says to us in the beautiful treatise Vivekachudamani in the opening lines as much on the importance of this human life.The most difficult thing for us is to get a human birth and that is the foremost thing in the goody bag.Now that you are reading this, thank the great God for giving you this human(...)'

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Why Blame God?

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 8/5/2012 8:28:00 AM

'Some folks came to see me a few days ago and joined in a satsang with their own questions.I was answering a few queries when they said that they are thankful to God for getting their dear daughters married off. God has been kind to all of them and so on. I told them that God was in no way responsible for their daughters marriages or for their upkeep.They were flabbergasted and got a bit provoked by what I said.So here goes the explanation for what I said to them. You are free t(...)'

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Success & Failure

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 5/30/2012 5:30:00 AM

'Yesterday one of my disciples came and asked me to say some words for her future. She was celebrating her 20th birthday.Though I speak on spiritual I told her that I will talk about her career and other such opportunities.I asked her what she would like to do after she completes her studies and the answer was-I don't know!I told her that it is useless playing football without the goal posts and opponents, so she better have a goal in life. The next was whom would she like to emulate(...)'

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I Want To See God!

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 3/22/2012 6:55:00 AM

'I have people coming to me and telling me that they want to see God with their own eyes.Can we see God and is it possible to talk to Him?The difficulty arises with people like us(chamchas) when someone comes with such a request is that of telling them that He is too busy to meet them. To fix up appointment and get His dates is highly impossible even for His dearest chamchas like us!You gotta see His diary to understand what I am speaking.Every person who wants audience with Him is o(...)'

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Upgrade In 2012

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 12/31/2011 5:34:00 AM

'I wanted to write a post on what I would like my friends and the rest to do in 2012.Those who are my dearest friends and disciples upgrade your connection into a one of love from deepest friendship.The ones who are only distant friends should upgrade to deeper friendship and if need be fall in love also. Here falling in love means expressing deeper bonds of love for humankind and not any other, like lustful type. LOL!Those who know me slightly should express their willingness to bec(...)'

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When You Offer!

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 12/25/2011 5:23:00 AM

'This post will tell you how you make an offering to the Lord.When you go to some temple and make an offering to the Lord in the form of some cash or kind or some sort of a pooja, you do it with an intention of gaining something from the Lord.The flowers, incense sticks, dhoopam, naivadya, colored powder called kumkuma, money, some special items that the Lord loves and show it with reverence with the aid of the panditji over there with prayers.The Lord accepts them and asks you after(...)'

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Divine & Human Love

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 12/21/2011 12:11:00 PM

'This question was asked by one of my disciples as to what kind of love is divine?Now let us see how human love looks like and then let us know divine love.When a man loves a woman, it always starts with the look and some sort of human communications. The type which can be expressed in the form of words or actions. There would be a load of messages in the form of letters, sms', chat, words spoken in the phone and the like. There would be exchange of mails, gifts, meetings at odd plac(...)'

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Borobudur & Jogjakarta.

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 12/7/2011 11:14:00 AM

'The picture to the left is the ruins of Borobudur which houses a number of stupas which contain Buddhas inside. The picture below is the Mountain Merapi which spews ash and water vapour even today. This was the same vulcano which had stopped all air traffic last year. It covers the entire ruins of Borobudur and they had to dig for them and remove the ash which had covered it all.The place to visit would be Borobudur and Jogjakarta in Indonesia. Here are some images which I captured.(...)'

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Radha's Love.

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 11/23/2011 2:29:00 AM

'In the various texts mentioning Radha, the consort of Shri Krishna it is said that she never could get Krishna and be with Him after He left for Mathura. I was asked if it was true and how was she able to cope up with this separation! Here I shall tell you how she could do what she only was capable of doing. To establish the highest form of love and yet never get tainted with any other form of mundane act. Even though being a married lady she never could give her heart to another ex(...)'

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Krishna's Promises.

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 11/21/2011 2:48:00 AM

'The way in which the world construes that Krishna tells lies to His devotees makes Him out into a liar and cheat. The Gopi's have themselves called Him a cheat and liar many a times but that happens because no one has the complete picture anytime. They only see a facet and make immediate judgements on Him. Here I am going to tell you how He goes out of the way to keep the promises He makes to His beloved devotees. Right from the first yuga when he gave the promise of teaching Devah(...)'

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God's Tests!

Author : krsnaknows      Blog : krsnas teachings      Date : 11/5/2011 5:29:00 AM

'I know everyone of us feels that God tests the limits of our patience and the level we can withstand the afflictions and troubles that He has put in our path. A point comes in our lives when we feel that this is it! No more and if there is any more we shall break. How many times have we said to ourselves that I am unable to bear this and can the good Lord just take me away from this life. Can I run away somewhere or someplace? Can You take these problems away and give me answers? Ca(...)'

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