Hare Krishna,
Most often, one question that keeps nagging us when we are chronically sick, when our losses (financial , or any other) suffering and pain becomes unbearable prompting us to ask " WHY ME OF ALL THE PEOPLE"? . The more it hurts, when we review the balance sheet of our life in the most truthful manner and find that we have been fairly good in our conduct and if not the very best , at least we have never harmed any one intentionally then why the never ending dark clouds that hover over our heads?
I have thought over this often and one fine day , sat in full meditation in our puja room and expressed this concern to our one and one dearest Lord Sri Krishna. Did I get the answer immediately, no.........one has to be patient in one's pursuit towards life and its purpose. I forgot about speaking to Lord Sri Krishna on this and moved on...
One fine day when I was meditating and singing the glories of the Lord, a sudden unexpected answer revealed itself to me. Our soul has traversed to many births and as our greatest Lord Sri Krishna told Arjuna in the most divine Srimad Bhagavad Gita that "you do not know of all your births but I , the creator am aware of each and every birth of each and every soul". In our past births , there could have been many such actions which needed a thorough cleanse and the same is getting done in this birth. Please believe me, if there are more pains in this birth, let us surely thank our lord for he wants to redeem us from the vicious cycle of life and death speedily and hence he wants to tally all our debits and credits of our numerous birth including the current and nullify our account to enable us to smoothly and very speedily reach him and during this tally we surely need to suffer and go through the "AGNI PARIKSHA" for even gold to be 24 carat or for a black carbon to become the best Kohinoor diamond it has to go through the most hot furnace and then emerge as hallmark gold or diamond , so also our soul has to go through great ordeals to get cleansed and for it to reach its right destination and that is stationed next to Lord Sri Krishna to permanently serve him. The greatest saints like RamKrishna Parmahamsa, Gyaneshwar Maharaj, Meera bai etc all suffered beyond any human limits but were yet so loving towards our lord for they knew that during every suffering our lord was with them, he wanted them to go through a phase and then redeem them forever, so we need to be patient and learn to believe that in all our difficult moments if we can reach to our Govinda, Madhava, Murari, Keshava, Madhusudana etc and rest assured that only that much we would suffer as much we can bear and not more because our lord knows our withstanding capacity and would not allow us to suffer beyond a point. So let us celebrate each of our suffering, our pains , our problems for surely we can feel the presence of our dearest Lord Sri Krishna coming to our rescue. Let our lives not be filled only with happiness where in our great times we forget our lord Sri Krishna but let our souls to get fully purified suffer but under our lord's protective gaze , then now and ever we will forever be connected with our dearest lord Sri Krishna... What can a soul want more than that? Being with Lord Sri Krishna here and hereafter...
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