Ram Dass

In a worldly sense, I was making a great income and I was a collector of possessions.
I had an apartment in Cambridge that was filled with antiques and I gave very charming dinner parties. I had a Mercedes-Benz sedan and a Triumph 500 CC motorcycle and a Cessna 172 airplane and an MG sports car and a sailboat and a bicycle

All I want is God on my side.”

Nobody could accept what was really going on, so they found other explanations for what they were experiencing. (Sound familiar?)

loving, playful, rascally aspect. I

But whereas Jehovah is the righteous face of God, Krishna is the loving, playful, rascally aspect. I

He was always laughing, playful, active, enthusiastic. He was like warm, radiant life itself, which is an incredible image to have of God.
Well, after a time, word of the miracles made its way to Kamsa, and he realized who this Krishna must be. So he came up with a plot. He planned a big festival, and he invited Krishna to attend. And at the festival there was a huge wrestler, who challenged little Krishna—little twelve-year-old Krishna—to a wrestling match. Krishna, of course, accepted the challenge, and killed the wrestler with no difficulty. Then he leaped up into the stands. He grabbed hold of his uncle and said, “Your time has come, too!” and he threw him down to the ground and killed him. He released Kamsa’s father from prison, and made him king again.
But at that point Krishna had shown his hand. I mean, you just couldn’t think of him any longer as “that little boy from down the street

Thank you, Mother, for helping me to find the way out.” In other words, Krishna sees that Gandhari’s curse will give him the means for getting finished with his incarnation, and he takes that to be a blessing. (

He’s a prince, and a pure, good son. He does his duty perfectly. He’s very moral, very intelligent, but he’s basically very practical and pragmatic. He’s not a philosopher; he’s definitely a man of action—and that makes Arjuna an appropriate mirror for our own society, because ours is that kind of active, rajasic culture.

“them”?
Who is “them”?

I said, “Well, Dad, that’s my predicament. If you show me anybody who isn’t Uncle Henry, I’ll happily rip him off.”