A few posts from HH Radhanath Swami's lectures that help us understand loneliness and how to overcome it in Krishna Consciousness can be found here:
http://radhanathswamivani.blogspot.com/search/label/overcoming%20loneliness
SB 10.49.21 Every creature is born alone and dies alone, and alone one experiences the just rewards of his good and evil deeds.
Akrura says this to Dhritarashtra to encourage him to overcome the affection he has for his sons. That affection caused him to be unjust towards the Pandavas in many situations. It blocked his affection for the Pandavas.
Dhritarashtra had come alone, would die alone and also during his lifetime he was experiencing his blindness alone. If there was pain in his body he could not reduce it by sharing the pain amongst his sons.
Any other karmic reaction he would have to suffer it alone.
We are in denial about our loneliness
Similarly in our lives, we are alone in the womb of our mothers, we are born alone and we die alone.
Similarly in our lives, we are alone in the womb of our mothers, we are born alone and we die alone.
We live our lives surrounded by family and friends but we are still alone in facing our karma, our anxieties, our fears. We may take help from devotees, but ultimately we have to alone suffer and alone take steps to address our fears and tolerate the reactions to our karma.
We are in denial of our loneliness and we usually surround ourselves with our loved ones.
However we are still lonely inside and that loneliness can only be filled by the presence of Lord Krishna in our lives.The more we are committed to following our Guru's instructions and remaining committed to our relationship with Krishna the more we will fill Krishna in our hearts.
Else we will remain in denial about our loneliness by filling our hearts with satisfaction from bodily relationships, satisfaction from mundane material achievement and all otehr things that satisfy the wants of our various bodily designations.
The 7th verse of the siksastakam says:
yugayitam nimesena caksusa pravsiyatam
sunyayitam jagat sarvam govinda virehena me
O Govinda! Feeling Your separations I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.
We fill vacant on our lives as well but we do not understand that is due to Krishna's absence from our lives.
A few posts from HH Radhanath Swami's lectures that help us understand loneliness and how to overcome it in Krishna Consciousnes can be found here:
http://radhanathswamivani.blogspot.com/search/label/overcoming%20loneliness
A few posts from HH Radhanath Swami's lectures that help us understand loneliness and how to overcome it in Krishna Consciousnes can be found here:
http://radhanathswamivani.blogspot.com/search/label/overcoming%20loneliness
