Many people including me like to be alone but not permanently, everyone seek for someone who will talk with him, care for him and share love and affection with him, this is the nature of God(Krishna) originally and that's why we always find Him with His associates, His cows, gopas, gopis etc. but we find perverted reflection of spiritual relationships in this world, in spiritual world everyone wants to please God but here everyone seeks his own pleasure everywhere including in relationships. I remember when I was in primary school I had few intimate friends, but when I departed for secondary school they left me and I had different kind of friends, then in college life different friends, and I realized that actually I don't have real friend even a single, their friendship with me was only circumstantial and that was only till there was a need of assignments and books.
The definition of a friend has changed in today’s technologically connected world. Today we may think we have many “friends.” It is true, we do enjoy the ability to be informed and to stay current with what is happening in the lives of many of our acquaintances as well as current and former friends and even people we have not met personally whom we call our friends. In the context of social media, the term “friend” is often used to describe contacts rather than relationships. You have the ability to send your “friends” a message, but this is not the same thing as having a relationship with a person one on one.
A true friendship doesn't last till the end of this life but remains till eternity. We find essence of true friendship in our scriptures and most famous example is of Lord Krishna and Sudama. When both were studying at Sandipani Muni's hermitage, they were sent to bring the firewood, when both went to the forest suddenly there was a storm, heavy rains and forest was covered with darkness but both didn't leave each other as well as their service to their guru Sandipani. So goal of real friendship is to co-operate with each other for higher responsibilities keeping aside our individual ego, pains and pleasures. Real friend turns up to us when whole world turns away from us, when Draupadi was being disrobed in the assembly of Kurus, when everyone turned away from her including her 5 husbands, Lord Krishna came to rescue her.
All other bodily and material relationships will surely embarrass us one day, but there is spiritual relationship with God which won't disappoint us because He is the one who knows our heart and it's needs truly and fully being most closest to us, He himself says in Gita, "suhridam sarva bhutanam, I am the best friend of all living entities". So there is only need to accept Krishna as our friend and follow His words to experience His unlimited love and utmost care.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Das
The definition of a friend has changed in today’s technologically connected world. Today we may think we have many “friends.” It is true, we do enjoy the ability to be informed and to stay current with what is happening in the lives of many of our acquaintances as well as current and former friends and even people we have not met personally whom we call our friends. In the context of social media, the term “friend” is often used to describe contacts rather than relationships. You have the ability to send your “friends” a message, but this is not the same thing as having a relationship with a person one on one.
A true friendship doesn't last till the end of this life but remains till eternity. We find essence of true friendship in our scriptures and most famous example is of Lord Krishna and Sudama. When both were studying at Sandipani Muni's hermitage, they were sent to bring the firewood, when both went to the forest suddenly there was a storm, heavy rains and forest was covered with darkness but both didn't leave each other as well as their service to their guru Sandipani. So goal of real friendship is to co-operate with each other for higher responsibilities keeping aside our individual ego, pains and pleasures. Real friend turns up to us when whole world turns away from us, when Draupadi was being disrobed in the assembly of Kurus, when everyone turned away from her including her 5 husbands, Lord Krishna came to rescue her.
All other bodily and material relationships will surely embarrass us one day, but there is spiritual relationship with God which won't disappoint us because He is the one who knows our heart and it's needs truly and fully being most closest to us, He himself says in Gita, "suhridam sarva bhutanam, I am the best friend of all living entities". So there is only need to accept Krishna as our friend and follow His words to experience His unlimited love and utmost care.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Das
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