Govinda Dāsa prayed, kamala-dala-jala, jīvana talamala – that everything we have is compared to a drop of water on a lotus leaf.

The nature of a lotus leaf is if there is the slightest movement, the drop of water slips away. Our health, our life in this body, the life of all our loved ones and everything that we hold dear to us – at any moment just some movement of nature and it slips away. Actually there are so many dangers at every moment that could happen to us that if we were really conscious of that, we would be living in total fear. There are wars and climate changes and so many things happening! 

Everything is God’s property, and everyone is a child of God. We must do everything we can to protect and nourish them. But the reality is that the satisfaction everyone is looking for is not just in a healthy body, good relationships in this world or a nice, peaceful economic situation, because all of that is a drop of water on the lotus leaf of life.

athāto brahma-jijñāsā:

human life gives us the rare opportunity for self-realization. When we learn to love Kṛṣṇa, we actually love all that exists, We may not love the way people behave, we may not love situations that come upon us, but we love that inherently within every situation Krishna is waiting for us. 

Naturally, we do not love things that hurt people. But we are grateful even in those situations that Krishna is there to give us shelter beyond birth and beyond death, beyond dualities.