From: Bhakti Vikasa Swami

Krsna is within you. He is sitting within your heart as a friend, not as an
enemy. Krsna is always your friend. Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam [Bg. 5.29]. You
are searching out friends to talk with, to joke with, to love. Krsna is
sitting there for that purpose. If you love Krsna, if you make friendship
with Krsna, if you love Krsna, then your life will be successful. You
haven't got to search out any other friend. The friend is already there.
Either you are a boy or a girl, you will find a nice friend within yourself.
 >>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture -- New Vrindaban, June 7, 1969

Krishna talks in Bhagavad Gita about the demoniac qualities&Godly qualities. After explaining about the demoniac qualities,Krishna reassures Arjuna by saying that dont worry oh son of Prtha,you are born of Godly qualities.

This is a very important thing that as most of us are born in the mode of ignorance in kali yuga. The Vedic samskara,marriage,a purificatory rite is performed in name only today. But no one knows the real purpose of these ritualistic principles. It's the duty of the couple to ensure that good progeny is produced for the benefit of the society.

Here we can link this sloka in Bhagavad Gita,whatever state of being one remains when quiting the body,that state one is sure to attain without fail. So it's not only the responsibility of parents to act properly to conceive children of good quality,but also ours. Not to blame the parents only but children as well.

It's by our state of consciousness we are forced to enter into the womb of a mother of similar consciousness.

Canakya Pandit says we can know the quality of a girl by the conduct of her mother.

So sacrifice is an intrinsic part of our life from the time we are born to the time we give up the body learning our lessons in every life as we go through a countless number of bodies.

Already we should not have taken this body. The presence of body itself shows that we are in the diseased condition of life. In other words, we are talking non-sense like the ones who are possessed by ghosts. They dont know what they talk or what they do. Our condition here in this world is like this. All the time we talk nonsense.


Although the living entity cannot enjoy anything separately from the Lord,he foolishly thinks that he can be happy by being independent of God. Even to do sense enjoyment which is miserable in the beginning middle and end,we need these elements provided by Krishna to us. Ghostly beings dont have the gross bodies to enjoy the senses. So they are always anxious to enter the bodies of other people to get whatever they desire. But today because the husband and wife unite at inappropriate times and improper consciousness,the ghostly beings are entering the womb(by the grace of Bhutanatha,Lord Shiva). Lord Shiva is very merciful that he gives a chance even to ghosts to take bodies. Most people get human body very easily in kali yuga by the mercy of Lord. But think about the society of ghosts. It's the one we are today.

The intricacies of action are very difficult to understand. Even the learned are bewildered to understand what is action and what is inaction. A person who sees action in inaction and inaction in action(Krishna consciousness) really sees. The impersonalists see that the souls are bound by the action and therefore they think that by stopping the action of senses we can stop getting bound by the reactions. But it's not possible to stop actions of the embodied soul. Even to maintain one's physical body one has to do some work. While doing so there are micro organisms,ants and other minute beings are killed. So we cant stop sinning but only minimize the sins. It's the sins that separates us from God. Atleast people some years ago atoned for their sins. Now it's even more worse. Now people say it's good to be bad. Even if we talk about the good and bad,people are so badly stuck by the influence of kali and with their sophisticated sudra minds,they are unable to understand God.

They think they are happy. The first step in self and God realization is to understand that we are suffering. Another miserable thing is everyone is thinking that they are not responsible for their actions and say only God is responsible for their miserable condition. The same people wont think of God when they are enjoying the senses. It's true that these material elements of senses mind intelligence are provided to us by God only. But it's upto us to make proper use of these things to the benefit of the self and the whole. It's easy to go along the stream but we to make a conscious effort to go upstream in a river. Likewise it's easy to go along with the way the world is but difficul to check our own life needs conscious effort.