What is the important lesson to learn from the life of Jesus?

Worship Jesus by following His ideals. Jesus pointed to three stages: the first one is “I am the Messenger of God”; He wanted to propagate the message of God. The second one is, “I am the Son of God”; the son has a claim to father’s property. What is the property of God? Truth, love, forbearance, peace, and righteousness are the properties of God. So, you must strive to attain these qualities. You must practice, experience, and propagate these virtues. Only then do you deserve to be called Son of God. The third one is “I and My Father are one”; this stage is attained when the principle of unity is realised. Jesus was always blissful and was prepared for anything because He understood that the body is merely a vesture and God is the indweller.

Why is it important to engage in good deeds, sow and brew good thoughts?

The confusing influence of maya (illusion) is the consequence of one’s accumulated activities in previous lives. You can escape maya through good consequence. If good activity has marked previous lives, any sinful tendency will and can be overwhelmed by virtuous tendencies in this life. You will have faith in Divinity and you will attach yourself to the Divine and spend your life on the basis of the Divine. On the other hand, those who have committed horrible crimes in past lives have the dreadful darkened vision, and it prevents them from seeing the Divine. Such a person is never reminded of God and His handiwork, never yearns for his own good and the good of others. They see things in false perspective. They revel in wickedness, and engage in vicious acts.

Why should we never try to reason the ways of the Divine?

Those who seek to know or lay down the causes for the Lord willing one way and not another are really on an impertinent adventure; so too are those who assert and describe His power and His plans through different characteristics, qualifications and limits, and also those who claim to know that the Lord will act only in a particular mode, and that the Divine Principle is of a specific nature and not otherwise! There can be no limit or obstacle to His Will. There can be no bounds to the manifestation of His power and His glory. He fructifies all that He wills. He can manifest in whatever form He wills. He is unique, incomparable, and equal to Himself alone. He is His own measure, witness, and authority.

SPARK FROM THE DEVINE ANVIL

What is the best way to be fully satisfied with our daily lives, whatever they are?

While engaged in the mundane activities and in sense objects, if you have no interest in the result or consequence, then not only can you be victorious over the feelings of “I” and “mine”, greed and lust, but you can be far away from all such traits. Liberating action is pure, faultless, unselfish, and unswerving. Its characteristic is the importance given to the idea of action without any desire of the fruits thereof (Nishkama Karma), which has been elaborated in the Bhagavad Gita. The practice of this discipline involves the development of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love (Sathya, Dharma, Shanti andPrema). While on this path, if one also takes up the discipline of remembering the name of the Lord, where else can one acquire more joy and bliss? It will give the full est satisfaction

What is the sum and substance of this life? Can we get there?

The process of living has the attainment of the Supreme as its purpose and meaning. The "Supreme" means the Atma, the Divine Self who is present everywhere. Many great people have directed their intelligence towards the discovery of the omnipresent Atma and succeeded in visualising that Divine Principle. There is plenty of evidence of the successful realisation of the goals placed before themselves by preachers, pundits, aspirants and ascetics, when they tried earnestly to pursue them.

What is the barometer for a good student?

Balarama and Krishna studied under Guru Saandeepini, offering him the tribute of love and reverence. Giving joy to the teacher, studying well what has been taught, avoiding the pursuit of sensory pleasure and devoting oneself solely for the pursuit of knowledge - they lived by these guidelines. They never interrupted the discourse of the preceptor or interposed their will against his. They did not overstep his will or direction in any instance. They never challenged his authority or dared disobey his instructions. Though Balarama and Krishna were the repositories of Supreme Authority over Earth and Heaven, they gave their preceptor the respect and obedience that was due to his eminence and position. They were full of earnestness and devotion. They did not allow anything to distract them from their lesson.  That is how a good student should be, that is what Balarama and Krishna were!