There are a couple of lessons I always take from this story. If we take responsibility, don't fret, because, well, you can fret and you will, but there's a way in which, at some point, if you're sincere and you pray to Kṛṣṇa for help, then he'll come in, maybe not from your nose, but from somewhere you weren't expecting. Like, something will come in that will make you say, "Oh, I hadn't thought of that. I didn't think it was possible." And I've seen it happen so many times, not just with problems, but also with the goals we're trying to reach. We may think it's impossible to get from here to there, but with Kṛṣṇa's help, we can get there.

Consider also how Kṛṣṇa expands. That is, he gets larger and larger in our life. Varāhadeva started as a tiny little, almost like an insect, then became like a bird, and then got bigger and bigger in the universe. The same thing with Matsya, same thing with Vāmana, who comes as a small child and then grows to the size of the universe. So Kṛṣṇa grows in our life. We just have to make space for him. He'll grow and bring all the facilities that we need.

"Ananyāś cintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham." Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 9.22), "If you just put it in my hands, meditate on me, then I'll carry what you lack and preserve what you have." And that's practically all we can do. Ultimately, we do our best to troubleshoot every situation, but we have to fully depend on Kṛṣṇa ultimately because we're not independent.

(excerpt from the talk)

Verses for discussion: SB 12.5.1-13 https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/12/5/advanced-view/

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