what am we supposed to be thankful for?

[Redsox 0]

For every body, we have a disease.

For every food, we have hunger.

For every office, we have sharks.

For every policeman, we have a thief.

For every kid, we have college expenses.

For every "wise-man", we have a "wise-guy".

For every good thought, we have the bad.

For every miracle, we have a dissapointment.

For every life, we have death.

 

Happy thanksgiving, but for what are we thanking?

 

PS: For every sentence, we have bad grammar. (like the title of this thread).

 

So what am we supposed to be thankful for?

[Guruvani 0]

 

 

 

So what am we supposed to be thankful for?

 

You can be thankful that you are not a Turkey!

 

 

[gHari 0]

We exist.

[Redsox 0]

 

You can be thankful that you are not a Turkey!

 

 

 

Ha! you think your existence is better than a turkey's?

[Redsox 0]

 

We exist.

 

but what a pathetic existence it is, never satisfied with anything, always searching for something meaningful and not finding it in anything.

[Guruvani 0]

 

Ha! you think your existence is better than a turkey's?

 

Well, nobody baked me for Thanksgiving.....so.... yes.... I would say so.

[Beggar 0]

Can't you just be happy that the Curse of Babe Ruth is over? Of course not, because everything in the world of material duality is just a "mental mushroom".

 

 

The Search for Sri Krishna

'The Krishna Conception' Chapter (excerpt)

by Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj,

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A devotee may become hopeless, thinking, "The enemy is within my own house; my own kinsmen are my enemies. I am hopeless." We may become disappointed, but Krishna consciousness will not leave us in any way. Krishna will persevere, and in due course of time, He will conquer. And other things, no matter how closely related they may be in private and well-protected rooms in our hearts, will have to go. They must take leave from every corner of our hearts. Krishna will conquer. Krishna will capture the whole thing. The unwanted lusty desires of our hearts are foreign things. They are only mushrooms. Like mushrooms, they come out; they have no permanent stability or root. They are not rooted to the soil. We may think that what we have stored in our hearts is very near and dear, and that is already mixed with us as a part of our existence, but when Krishna consciousness enters, they will all float like mushrooms.

After all, they are mushrooms; they have no footing, no connection with the soil. They are only floating. All material interests are only floating on the surface. They are not deeply rooted within and without the whole of our existence. Only Krishna consciousness has its existence everywhere, within all parts of our existence. So, the mushrooms will have to vanish one day. This is confirmed in the Srimad Bhagavatam [2.8.5]:

pravistah karna-randhrena svanam bhava-saroruham

dhunoti samalam krsnah salilasya yatha sarat

 

When Krishna enters the heart through the ear, He captures the lotus of the heart and then gradually makes all the dirt in the heart disappear. Just as when the autumn season comes, all the water everywhere becomes pure, so also, when Krishna enters our hearts, all the impurities within will gradually vanish, and only Krishna will remain forever.

Don't be a turkey!

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[melvin 1]

..a cancer patient

.. a heart donor

.. a porno actor

.. a politician

.. a rapist

.. a plagiarist( Hahaha!)

.. a beggar ( Huhuhu)

.. a swindler

.. a philanderer( Hahaha!)

.. a suicide bomber

.. an osama bin laden!

[Kulapavana 0]

being thankful is a state of mind. a state of humility and appreciation for anything we have. a true wisdom.

 

it does not matter WHAT you have, or dont have. you simply need to realize that whatever you have is good for you. especially if you can appreciate what Krsna is doing for you.

 

you can be thankful for a good wife, or a bad one - each situation has it's advantages - you just have to see them.

 

I'm thankful for your thread. It made me think and appreciate my life. Dandavat pranams!

[mahak 0]

the next breath of air, the vision after the next blink of the eye, the sound of the holy names of god.

 

Im thankful that Prabhupada never lies, that he says if I chant, my life will be sublime, so I did, and it is, as it is.

 

hare krsna, ys, mahaksadasa

[Murali_Mohan_das 0]

I'm very thankful that Gurudev, in his infinite mercy, has come to California to spread Sriman Mahaprabhu's message of hope.

 

I've been too clueless to get to India to sit at his feet.

[Murali_Mohan_das 0]

If everything belongs to Krishna, then aren't we *all* beggars (at best, if we are not outright thieves)?

 

 

.. a beggar ( Huhuhu)

 

[Beggar 0]

...a picker ( Huhuhu)

[melvin 1]

I`m thankful that my car`s tank is full of gasoline. I`m thankful I don`t own a tank. I`m thankful I was once a beggar. Now, that I`m rich I`m thankful I don`t anymore have to beg. Hahaha!

[mahak 0]

yeah, now you gotta beg to not be poor again,m this is where we are in the superior position. You just got a backpack full of rocks.

 

I went from $500 per hour to $53,000,000 in debt, in the blink of an eye.

 

The debt was liquidated by the judge who sentenced the one I owed to 40 years in the federal penetentiary. Then I made $40 per hour with all the nuclear waste one could want, then to $2,000 a year, paid for by yall (thanx, guys). Now, Im 50 Gs per annum, and broke along with all the rest of the middle class here in a-maya-kkk-a.

 

I cant help it, if Im lucky - dylan, idiot wind

[Guruvani 0]

I'm thankful I can just log off when I don't want to hear Mahak talking about himself anymore.

[mahak 0]

well, hes the guy I hang with. I didnt go to the phillipeans two years ago.

[Guruvani 0]

 

well, hes the guy I hang with. I didnt go to the phillipeans two years ago.

 

Ok, I am just jealous because you are rich and I am poor.

[mahak 0]

50,000 income, 65,000 outgo, equals -$15,000. Some rich. Better than -$53,000,000 tho.

[Guruvani 0]

 

Better than -$53,000,000 tho.

 

What did you do?

Sink one of them nuclear subs accidently smoking a doob in the boiler room?

[melvin 1]

I earn less that $500 a month. My wife is just plain housewife. And yet I was able to send 3 kids to school. The eldest is now an electronics and communications engineer(Matthew) and the other is a registered nurse(Marco). My youngest, a girl (Melsa) will be going college next year. We want her to take up nursing. I consider myself a rich man not a poor man.

[melvin 1]

I`m still alive for today. Condolence to Beggar. Hahaha!( Go see for yourself at the thread entitled Questions of War )