On love - Bhagavatam

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When you go through the life of Jesus, there is missing period from his 13 years to 30 years. Nothing is said about it. He left home at 13 and comes back to home around his 30^th year. When he returned he was ‘Christ’.

More than 25 years of study, travelling and intense meditation made him ‘Christ that he was destined’ to be! He didn’t become one overnight. He worked hard – real hard for such long time to reach that level. 

Behind every ‘great person’ lies his years of struggle, pain, failures, suffering and uncertainty. Yes, none of these great people knew their ‘tomorrow’ and hence their decisions were not ‘sure’ of success. Yet they braved their ‘decisions’ and when they turned successful, people called their decisions and actions right. Take any life  - be it of Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, Baba Amte, A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Mother Theresa or Ramana Maharshi (I am not explaining or giving pages from their lives assuming you all know about them. If you don't and want, please seek and i'll give few examples from their lives too!). Be it in political field, intellectual, materialistic or spiritual field – behind every ‘successful person’ were two compulsive attitudes – sheer hard work and perseverance!

Coming to Krishna, his winning over Kamsa was also due to his courage, years of hard work (in the field of martial arts and yoga) and the belief that ‘he was right’ and was fighting against ‘wrong’. Purity and right intention itself becomes such

a great energy, shield and power by itself that you become invincible. Just imagine – how a puny, semi-naked man with bare hands and a smile on his lips called Gandhi could face the Mighty Throne of British Empire! So, what’s surprising that Krishna had a smile on his face always – even when facing most powerful of men and his enemies?

So instead of putting aside his character of ‘acts of God’, know them as principles to live up to, character and attitudes to be picked and examples that lead us towards our dreams!”

“But Guruji, we don’t want to face people as powerful as Kamsa!” someone said.

“Did she mean us to?” replied some other voice.

“But then do we have such uncles is the question?” said another voice.

“No. Our relatives and enemies are simple small time thugs and thieves” added a voice from behind.

Everyone laughed. Each one of us was associating this sentence with someone we disliked or one who hurt us a lot or irritated us a lot!

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