doubt delays us, but devotion never fails.

Reflections 

“I Have Shown You the Way” – A Reflection from the Lord’s Side

I have walked among you more than once.

I have come as king and as servant, as child and as charioteer, as cowherd and as ascetic. I have spoken in thunder and I have whispered through silence. I have shown you the path not through commands alone, but through living examples. Yet even now, I watch you struggle, forget, and fall short.

Do not think I am angry. I am not.

I am only endlessly patient, and quietly sorrowful.

I showed you righteousness through Rama. I showed you how to choose duty over desire, truth over comfort, and compassion over power. I accepted exile without bitterness. I upheld promises even when they broke my heart. Still, you justify your compromises by calling them “practical,” forgetting that dharma is often inconvenient.

I showed you love through Krishna. I laughed, I danced, I played, and I lifted mountains when faith wavered. I taught you that joy and devotion are not opposites. I stood on the battlefield and explained the deepest truths of existence in the simplest words. Yet you remember my miracles more than my message, my flute more than my Gita.

I showed you surrender through Prahlāda, patience through Harishchandra, generosity through Karna, and wisdom through the sages who owned nothing yet lacked nothing. Their lives were not meant to be admired from afar. They were meant to be mirrors.

Still, you ask me why peace eludes you.

You pray for strength, but avoid discipline.

You pray for wisdom, but resist silence.

You pray for guidance, but distrust conscience.

You pray for miracles, but ignore daily grace.

I have given you time, yet you rush.

I have given you abundance, yet you hoard.

I have given you companions, yet you divide.

I have given you scriptures, yet you argue over words and forget their spirit.

I do not expect perfection. I never did.

I only hoped you would try a little more sincerely.

I hoped that after seeing the futility of anger, you would pause before it consumes you again.

That after witnessing the cost of greed, you would choose contentment.

That after tasting devotion, you would not reduce it to ritual alone.

Every fall pains you more than it pains me.

Every lesson ignored delays your own peace.

Remember, I do not stand apart from you, measuring your failures. I walk beside you, waiting for the moment you pause, turn inward, and listen. Even when you forget me, I do not forget you.

When you stumble, I do not withdraw.

When you doubt, I do not abandon.

When you fall short, I wait.

Not because my expectations are low,

but because my love is immeasurable.

When you are ready to live even one teaching fully, rather than admire a thousand, you will find me there. Not in the heavens, not in temples alone, but quietly present in the choice you make when no one is watching.

I have shown you the way.

I am still showing you the way.

Walk—just a little more consciously—and you will see that I have never left your side.

अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति ।

नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं संशयात्मनः ॥

— Bhagavad Gītā 4.40

Meaning:

The ignorant, the faithless, and the doubting soul fall away.

For the one who lives in doubt, there is neither this world nor the next, nor happiness.

This verse fits beautifully at the end, as the Lord’s final, gentle reminder: “I have taught you; doubt alone stands between you and peace.”

न मे भक्तः प्रणश्यति

— Bhagavad Gītā 9.31

Meaning:

My devotee never perishes.