Depending on our eternal Father
My four year old son likes to draw pictures with the Windows 'Paint' program, and today I showed him that you could save the pictures also. He loved the idea that he could keep his artworks, and we saved two of his pictures this afternoon.
This evening he was doing a third picture, and I told him we had to turn off the computer now to do some other work. He looked at me with concern and said, "Daddy, can we also save this one?" He was thinking that we didn't have enough room, or that we would have to delete the other pictures.
I told him we could easily save thousands, even millions, of such small files, and he was happy.
The incident started me thinking about how we have a similar limited mentality when it comes to Krishna, and the gifts He can provide, both spiritual and material.
Like my little boy, with our limited brains, we think that we could have either 'this' or 'that', but if we depend on Krishna, we can often have both things, and much more too.
The key is that we have to rely on Krishna, and not our own mental projections and intellectual ponderings. With our limited viewpoint we cannot conceive of the solutions and wonderous outcomes Krishna can bring into our life, if we just sincerely admit our incompetence to understand things, and rely on His guidance.
In the incident of Narada Muni saving mrigari the hunter, Srila Prabhupada explains:
"The source of our income is not actually the source of our maintenance. Every living being—from the great Brahma down to an insignificant ant—is being maintained by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Eko bahünäm yo vidadhäti kämän. The one Supreme Being, Krishna, maintains everyone. Our so-called source of income is our own choice only. If I wish to be a hunter, it will appear that hunting is the source of my maintenance. If I become a brähmana and completely depend on Krishna, I do not conduct a business, but nonetheless my maintenance is supplied by Krishna. The hunter was disturbed about breaking his bow because he was worried about his income. Närada Muni assured the hunter because he knew that the hunter was not being maintained by the bow but by Krishna. Being the agent of Krishna, Närada Muni knew very well that the hunter would not suffer by breaking the bow. There was no doubt that Krishna would supply him food."
If we practice to always rely on the superior intelligence of Krishna, we can always be open to His hand in our lives, and we will be ready to accept His guidance, and His plan for our happiness, which is far, far, beyond our current conception.
