''God helps those who helps themselves'' that's the secret of spiritual life.

"Krishna helps those who help themselves''

All of us have to make the choice to always chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra every day for our spiritual growth and welfare.

That is the basic secret of advancing in spiritual life and healing the soul beyond the decaying material bodily covering it is in.

For the soul, chanting Hare Krishna Mantra is the best medicine.

However, while trapped in this material body, we find Krishna may also help us in other ways too by sending people to help us mend and better maintain our broken material bodily vessel's mind and body.

Therefore it is not that Krishna has to always personally come to help us.

In fact nearly all the time,  He will send us those who can also help us and guide us.

From a Spiritual Master, to a doctor to cure or mend our material bodily vessel, or an emergency worker to save us from a flood or other natural disasters.

Like the following story reveals.

The Drowning Man who prayed to God for help 

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help. Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."

The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me."

So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. "The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."

To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."

To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."

So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned.

He went to Heaven.

He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed,

"I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown. I don't understand why!"

To this God replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"

In early February 1973 in Sydney Australia Srila Prabhupada developed an infection on his finger from a paper cut while opening mail. 

The infected finger got worse over a few days and eventually penicillin was given to Srila Prabhupada to heal the infection.

One young devotee saw that Prabhupada was constantly chanting Hare Krishna, translating Srimad Bhagavatam's 3rd Canto and preaching to the devotees.

This young boy asked Prabhupada, 

''You are always chanting Krishna's name, working late at night translating Sastra into English and preaching to the devotees, why didn't Krishna heal your finger that caused you some discomfort?''

Srila Prabhupada answered and showing great faith in Lord Krishna,

''Oh yes Krishna was so kind He immediately helped me, it was Krishna who sent the penicillin that healed my finger''.

It's not that Krishna has to personally appear and wave some magic wand, it does not work that way -

''God helps those who helps themselves'' that's the secret of spiritual life.