04-11-2008, 07:59 AM
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| |  Krsna Sends Criticism and Problems to us.
There was an Indian poet, a very young boy, he was so talented. He could write poetry and everybody was impressed.
As a matter of fact, the Indian government sent him to Italy for a poet program where poets from all over the world meet. And he won a price there; he was recognized as an international poet. And he was just a young boy, not even 20 years old. The only one who criticized him was his father. His father was always saying: "You are useless. You are just puffed up, you will get nowhere and like this he was always smashing him. “.So his son was developing a very great anger against the father, because everybody was glorifying him and father was smashing, smashing, and smashing.
Then he decided: "I will kill my father.” Then one day in the night he took one knife and he went and he was hiding in the closet of the father room. And father and mother they come in the room and they lay down on the bed. And the mother says to the father: "Look at the full moon, it is so beautiful." Then the father says: "If I think of the beautiful face of my son then the moon looks to me like nothing." then the mother said: "Yes, but you are always smashing him, you are always criticizing him", "Oh, yes I do that just that he don't become proud and useless, I just do that to save him". And the son inside the closet: "Ohhh, I was going to kill my well-wisher" He comes out and falls at the feet of his father and he is crying and crying and crying.
So we have to be very careful, Krsna loves us, even if he sends some criticism, some difficulty to our life. Don’t go around the world looking just for: "Who will glorify me, who will give me some honor". Because you have to learn, you have to become purified, you have to develop love for Krsna and that’s not a cheap thing. You cannot have love for your false ego simultaneously and love for Krsna.
So by the kindness of Sri Krsna, He is making sure we get the message we need to get. | | |
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