When something bad happens in our life should we see it as Krishna’s plan – Chaitanya Charan

Hare Krishna? Okay, so we talked about plans, Prabhu, so when something goes wrong in our life, when something bad happens, is it still Krishna’s plan? Yes and no. Basically, we can say that Prabhupada translated this as Sasyanvito Rajan. In Bhishma’s prayer, he says everything is within Krishna’s plan.

And there’s a big difference between everything is Krishna’s plan and everything is within Krishna’s plan. Now, what is this within Krishna’s plan? What does it make a difference? It’s like if you consider a school. Now, in a school, if a student fails, now is the student failing the school’s plan? If that is the plan, then nobody should go to such a school, isn’t it? So, the school is not intended to fail the student.

But if a student fails, does the school have a plan for such a student? Yeah, you have failed in one subject, you can just go to the next session, next semester, but you can do the subject again. You failed too many subjects, then maybe you need to do this whole semester again. So, now of course, there are some students for which even the school will say, I have no plan for you.

You know, you just leave. But Krishna is not like that. So, the student’s failing is not the school’s plan, but the student’s failing is included within the school’s plan.

So, like that, when some people do bad things, no, it is not that Krishna wants them to do the bad things. But if they do bad things, it is not that they are thrown out of Krishna’s plan. That Krishna still has a plan for them.

So, that’s the way to understand it.