Question: Kṛṣṇa loves us deeply. For His love, we sometimes appreciate, sometimes doubt, and sometimes become numb. How can we stay in a right mindset?
Answer by Romapada Swami:
How does a child come to understand when they are feeling disconnected with their parents when their parents are always loving?
I am using that as an example because issues of the heart are often easily understood within the family context, especially for those who are parents.
There are times when the child’s heart is very open. There are times when it is not so open. As a parent, you recognize the fluctuation.
What you can do is to be very patient and continue being very loving even if the child’s heart is not open.
Most likely, after sometime, a little light will go on and the child will understand that the parents are always very loving and will regret that sometimes his or her heart was closed.
Something that may help the child have the closed-heart condition become shorter and become open again is good association.
The child is going to have some friends.
If the child can have wholesome friends, more likely his or her heart will open more quickly than otherwise.
The same applies here. Seek good association of those whose hearts are open. With good association, your heart will open more quickly.
What I can also suggest is that try to dive more deeply in the sound vibration of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā, and the Holy Name.
Softening of the heart more consistently will come just from eagerness in submissive hearing transcendental messages of Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.
