Having a connection with God with love
Kishore Shintre
#newdaynewchapter is a Blog narrative started on March 1, 2021 co-founded by Kishore Shintre & Sonia Bedi, to write a new chapter everyday for making "Life" and not just making a "living"
I am a God loving perso definitely. I don't feel the need to be fearful of the God, when I haven't done something wrong. When me and my family has given their 100 percent to be useful and empathetic towards the society and the people. I love my ShivShakti and the way I love my parents, they are my guiding force, my light, my voice of conscience. There’s a thing my mother used to say when I was a kid. No, not “education is not the solution if ignorance is not the problem,” though she said that too.
No, I mean that other thing: “Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” You keep repeating the same pattern over and over because you keep waiting for God to solve your problems instead of solving them yourself. Rather than learning good communication, partner selection, and relationship skills, you’re waiting for God to figure it all out for you. Expecting the divine creator of all the universe to hook you up on Friday night seems a tad…presumptuous, maybe? Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Learn from your mistakes, make better choices in the future. Your relationship is your business, not God’s.
To teach you that people are not meant to stay. None of them. To teach you that you are alone in this journey. And you just got to thank the passersby who stopped by for a moment and made a part of your journey easier for you. To teach you that irrespective of your materialistic attachments, life is short, and will probably end all of a sudden, without a prior notice. What will stay will just your energy. To teach you to take nothing for-granted. You never know when is it no longer there you always used to find it.
To teach you that come what may, the world doesn’t stops for anyone. We are all here to play our role, and we have to, and there are no exceptions to it. You will continue to eat, drink and breathe if your loved ones go away. Same will happen if you go away, too. People you call your family will mourn for days, but will eventually move on with lives. If something happens to you today, your parents too, will continue to, and learn to, live without you. To teach you not to cling. Nothing is yours. And to give you hope that everything is momentary; your pain too, and each day, you are closer to where you finally belong.
God also puts people in our lives for us to help them. Your friend whose husband lost their lives suddenly? God wants you to help them. That homeless man that lives on your corner and has nothing to eat? God wants you to help them. That co-worker who cant make their bills this month? Help them. You are the person God put in someones life to help them. So be the person God knows you can be, and be that person.
Actually everyone of us, being spiritual beings, belong to the spiritual world which is Krishna's abode. But now we are stuck in this material world. And since we have a natural attraction for Krishna, we are all looking for Him in this material world directly or indirectly. Krishna's devotees try to achieve Krishna directly by serving Him and consequently they return to His abode. But materialistic people try to find Krsna in dead matter. Krishna is happiness personified. And since everyone is looking for happiness,we are all looking for our Shri Krishna.
Materialistic people look for happiness(Krsna) in matter, which is why they never find real happiness. Real happiness can only be found in Krsna and we can come in contact with Krsna by becoming His devotee. So actually everyone is trying to reach God and live with Him but there are only a few(His devotees) who are trying to achieve that goal by serving Him. Lord Krsna being merciful to the conditioned souls appears in this material world and enacts His beautiful pastimes to attract our minds towards Him. And He also speaks Bhagavad Gita where He explains the process of bhakti yoga by which we can return to His abode.
janma karma cha me divyam
eva? yo vetti tattvata?
tyaktvā deha? punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna (Shrimad Bhagwad Gita 4.9)
Translation: One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī mā? namaskuru
mām evai?yasi yuktvaivam
ātmāna? mat-parāya?a? (Shrimad Bhagwad Gita 9.34)
Translation: Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.
abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena
cetasā nānya-gāminā
parama? puru?a? divya?
yāti pārthānucintayan (Shrimad Bhagwad Gita 8.8)
Translation: He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Pārtha, is sure to reach Me. These are some verses where Lord Krsna explains the art of returning to His abode. To know more about the science of Krsna and devotional service. So mature. I think if they spend a few hours meditating on this, they will get a much more profound answer than one I can produce here today. But I’ll try.
It feels soooooo good when someone loves me. And it feels even better when they do all those tiny caring things. It replenishes me, it feels like emotional food. I need this, I really do. Then one day—they could die, they could love someone else, they could disappear, they could decide they just don’t like me anymore. So, what happens to me now? I wither away, like a neglected house plant. This makes me think: am I not just as human as they are?
Am I not capable of giving the same love? So I get unhealthy and I give it to everyone and anyone who will take it, I even give it to addictions. The Right Connection. If you are looking for a short emotional and physical connection with another person, then that is a very clear sign that you may not be ready to date. ... If, however, you feel like you would like to get married one day and even start a family, then that is a much more mature reason to want to date. Jay Shri Krishna