Episode 124--Seeing God Clearly: Healing Projection, Hurt, and Misunderstanding

In this class on Bhagavad Gita 9.11, we explore why we often struggle to see Krishna as He truly is. Krishna appears in a humanlike form, but His form is completely spiritual — eternal, full of knowledge, full of bliss. He is not an ordinary person; He is the Supreme Person. Yet because we’ve been shaped by human hurt, judgment, or disappointment, we tend to project those experiences onto God and assume He feels toward us the way people have. We also look at the “God-sized hole” within each of us — the longing for perfect love and acceptance — and how we unintentionally try to fill that longing with people or achievements that can never satisfy the soul. The Gita teaches that only Krishna, the transcendently personal and all-attractive Lord, can fulfill the heart’s deepest desire for connection, and He reciprocates in ways no human ever could. By healing the filters of projection and misunderstanding, we begin to see Krishna clearly — not as a limited human figure, but as the eternally loving Supreme Person who invites us into a real, personal relationship with Him.