1. Expressive Enjoyment

3. Krishna prepared ahead what you would do with your life and that's where you'll feel most fulfilled.
You were formed, shaped, created uniquely for a purpose. You're not here by accident. You are His work-manship.

4. Wired Unique in both your strengths & weaknesses
Krishna enjoys seeing birds be birds, etc.
Enjoys seeing you be you.

5. Maturity is when you're
able to say, "By the grace
of God I'm not what I'm not!
But I am what I am!" Will
Rogers said, "Everybody's
ignorant, just on different
subjects." We need each
other and nobody is
totally self sufficient.

6. “How does he do that?” Thought that thru Put that together
Made that catch
Some of your abilities are in seed form
And some you don’t even think about

7. Hanuman Showed abilities w/o knowing their extent and then forgot them
Caru speaking, money making

8. Jadurani Jayananda

9. Digvijaya Pandit Keshava Kashmiri was a great devotee of the
goddess of learning,
Sarasvati, and being
favored by her, he was
quite confident of his
intellectual abilities.
Upon the request of Lord Caitanya, he immediately composed one hundred verses glorifying the Ganges, and he eloquently recited these verses before Lord Caitanya and His students.

11. No Unemployment at Temple
Help identify abilities & develop them
Krishna pleased when we fine tune what He gave us.

12. Sharpen Your Skills Practice. Develop. Take training.
He wants a return
on His investment

13. Serve Him
Artistic ability, musical ability, thinking, speaking, planning, or physical ability
Not given for selfish purposes

14. “Whatever you do, whatever you eat,
whatever you offer or give away, and whatever
austerities you perform -do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to me.” Gita 9/27

15. Freedom of Choice Ravana
Krishna gives you the ability to organize. You can organize a rescue or you can organize a robbery. You can manipulate people or you can minister to people. You can use the abilities Krishna's given you selfishly or you can use them unselfishly.
Ravana

16. Lord always has jobs to do
Government spending billions to create jobs, Lord is better at it.
Doesn’t take credit - Arjuna but an instrument verse
Like a yoga teacher goes around & adjusts students, or flower arranger

17. “Time I am. I have come to engage all people.”

18. Then Krishna left the earth to return to His own kingdom, and Arjuna
Then Krishna left the earth to return to His own kingdom, and Arjuna couldn’t even string his famous bow. His quiver emptied, and the undefeated hero found himself the loser at the hands of untrained fighters. Arjuna concluded that the Lord had withdrawn abilities that had seemed an integral part of himself.

19. Brhaspati Graha
Indra insulted
Brhaspati cursed

20. Lord Brahma, along with Lord Siva, saw the crystal-clear personal beauty of the Lord, whose blackish body resembles a marakata gem, whose eyes are reddish like the depths of a lotus, who is dressed with garments that are yellow like molten gold, and whose entire body is attractively decorated. They saw His beautiful, smiling, lotuslike face, crowned
by a helmet bedecked with valuable jewels. The Lord has attractive eyebrows, and His cheeks are adorned with earrings.

21. Lord Brahma and Lord Siva saw the belt on the Lord's waist, the bangles on His arms, the necklace on His chest, and the ankle bells on His legs. The Lord is bedecked with flower garlands, His neck is decorated with the Kaustubha gem, and He carries with Him the goddess of fortune and His personal weapons, like His disc and club. When Lord Brahma, along with Lord Siva and the other demigods, thus saw the form of the Lord, they all immediately fell to the ground, offering their obeisances.

23. Gems Reflect Light

24. Churning

25. Vishnu revived demons devas & carried Mandara on Garuda
Asked Garuda to leave so snake Vasuki could come
Front - tail debate
Kurma to Support
Entered demons as passion, vasuki ignorance
Manifested on top of Mountain with many hands
Caused rain to relieve from Vasuki smoke
Personally churned

26. “Lord Vishnu was competent to rectify the situation, but in order to give credit to Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu did not take action.

27. Generated from Ocean Surabhi cow havirdhvani. Brahmanas
Uccaihsrava was generated. Bali Maharaja.
Airavata. Indra
Kaustubha Lord Vishnu Apsaräs,
Lakshmi, Vishnu
Varuni, the goddess of drinking, demons
Dhanvantari part of Vishnu.. Demons snatched pot & ran, fighting among themselves the Lord Himself appeared as the incarnation Mohini, who was selected as mediator.
SB 8.8.1

28. Virtual Woman, Flawless
Impossible in Reality, like Krishna in Brahma Moha

29. I can continue using my abilities in the service of Lord Krishna
I can continue using my abilities in the service of Lord Krishna. A common misconception is that to become a devotee of God one must give everything up. The only thing that needs to be given up, however, is the mentality of "everything belongs to me." Rather, everything is done as an offering to the Supreme Lord.

30. Thomas Hopkins
“To help people discover what their own nature is, what their own psychological proclivities are, what their natural abilities are, and then to put them to work in some kind of practical way, and to show them how to perform those activities with devotion to God—this is what the devotional tradition is all about.”

31. Nirbande Krishna Sambande
“Bhaktivedanta Swami never tried to construe the teachings of the Gita to encourage some kind of otherworldly religiosity. His teachings were always in practical terms: one can worship Krishna by starting a magazine, one can worship Krishna by producing devotional art, or by cleaning the temple, or by cooking a feast for public distribution, or by repairing the temple car. It is activity performed as devotional service to Krishna that is the practical essence of the devotional tradition and that releases enormous amounts of energy.”

32. Doesn’t matter if people approve
Audience of One
Doesn’t matter if people approve

33. Marriage Implications
As a couple, enhance
each other's strengths
and compensate for
each other's weaknesses.
That's Krishna's plan
for marriage. Don’t
try making your mate
like you.

34. Family Implications

35. “Modern societies have misapplied the ideas of equality, they try to educate all children in exactly the same way. As a result, children are forced to endure endless schooling that has nothing to do with their talents and vocations; quite understandably, the students become restive, bored, and empty of all motivation, and they waste years learning nothing. But the Vedic system of education, built on respect for the individuality of the student, tailors education to the student's own aptitudes and abilities.” Dr. Edith Best

36. Ministry Implications
If you are a devotee, Krishna expects you to offer your abilities to be used in your temple family. More than taking prasadam and chanting, you are needed. Your talents and abilities are valuable.

37. Shymasundara: Plato believed society can enjoy prosperity and harmony only if it places people in working categories or classes according to their natural abilities. He thought people should find out their natural abilities and use those abilities to their fullest capacity—as administrators, as military men, or as craftsmen. Most important, the head of state should not be an average or mediocre man. Instead, society should be led by a very wise and good man—a "philosopher king"—or a group of very wise and good men. BTG 1976

38. Bhisma at once gave up his weapons and stood ready to be killed by the Lord. The Lord was the ultimate destination of Bhisma’s life, and to see the Lord in this mood was the fulfillment of Bhisma’s chivalrous dealings with the Lord. Although Krishna had promised not to lend His fighting strength to either side, He broke that promise on Bhisma’s insistence, just to save His devotee, Arjuna. BTG Passing of Bhisma

40. “Both we & Bhagavan (God) seek fulfillment in love
“Both we & Bhagavan (God) seek fulfillment in love. Love is the summum bonum for the devotee as well as for the Lord. The Devotee does not seek Krishna directly but pure, selfless, love for Him. Similarly, Krishna does not seek anything but love. He need not seek anything else, for there is nothing which, as the most perfect being, He does not already possess.

42. But as Love He is never perfect
But as Love He is never perfect. Love is nothing but incessant yearning for more love. Perfection in love means negation of love. Every fulfillment in love creates a gap which calls for further fulfillment. Love is, therefore, essentially dynamic, a vital upward surge through a necessary downward movement. It is self-fulfillment in self-abandonment, self-realization in self-effacement.
BTG The Laws of Bhakti are real

43. Krishna designed you to make a unique contribution
Krishna designed you to make a unique contribution. Without you the picture isn't complete. It shows that you're worthy, that you're valuable, you're needed.

44. Key to Fulfillment Real Joy comes from productivity.
Krishna wants us to feel the thrill of being used by Him.
Real Joy comes from productivity.

45. Ultimate Question
“What did you do with the gifts I gave you?”

46. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare