Pilgrim Heart with Krishna Das

Krishna Das guides listeners to develop the strength to overcome painful situations through regular practice and surrendering to what is.

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This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das dives into:

• Chanting for a balance between light and dark
• The inner strength to not identify with negative emotions
• Working through fear surrounding death of a loved one
• Krishna Das’ hot spring story
• Being kind to ourselves and allowing situations to normalize in due time
• Finding out ‘what is’ instead of just ‘want we want to be’
• Coming back to the chant to be in the present moment
• The continuous process of letting go

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“When somebody that we know and love is very ill and soon to leave the body, it brings up a lot of stuff in us. If you’re not doing regular practice, those moments are going to knock you out. They’re going to roll over you like a steam roller. You’ve got to be doing regular practice over time. That’s the only way to develop the strength to deal with these situations.” – Krishna Das

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Exploring the many fruits of making time for spiritual practice, Krishna Das shares the beauty of forgiving those who have hurt us.

This week, Krishna Das responds to questions on:

• The ways we nurture our wounds and carry our pain
• Forgiving those who have hurt us
• How hurt people hurt others out of their own pain
• The power of loving-kindness mediation for forgiveness
• Maturing and realizing that pain is just a part of life
• Forgiveness and kindness as the fruit of spiritual practice
• How the poison of attachment ruins love
• The Hanuman Chalisa as an offering to Maharaj-ji
• Chanting as a meditation practice
• Finding the time for practice in our busy lives
• Listening to our hearts and discovering what we really want in life
• Suspending disbelief and connecting to powers beyond ourselves
• Difficult familial relationships and doing the best we can

“As the fruit of our hearts is ripened and gets sweeter, those pains are left behind. But, there’s no button you can push; it’s the fruit of practice, that forgiveness, kindness, and compassion open us up.” – Krishna Das

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Krishna Das explains how we can serve our parents and release their karmas along with our own as a labor of love.

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This week, Krishna Das responds to questions on:

• What Maharaj-ji said about service to our parents
• Praying for people from afar and working through traumas
• Freeing our parents from their karmas
• Doing healing work on our own hearts
• Detaching from the ego and loving the soul instead of the role
• Seeing the boundless love and purity in everyone
• How negative mind-states can block us from sensing the guru
• How trying to hold onto pleasant feelings causes more suffering
• Maintaining equanimity no matter what we are receiving from the outside world

“While your parents are alive, if possible, one should try to release the negative energy in that relationship somehow. It’s something that we’ll carry with us for our whole lives and we will be hurt by those emotional knots within us.” – Krishna Das

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Amidst global and individual suffering, Krishna Das teaches listeners how to move forward even when our spirit is heavy.

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This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das offers advice about:

• Coping when we are worn out from global and individual pain
• Honoring all of our feelings
• Using the handshaking practice for difficult emotions
• Recognizing that we are separate from our feelings
• Having a chanting practice to work on releasing feelings
• Why we cannot neglect our inner world
• Creating peace in the world through our own serenity
• Allowing ourselves to say no sometimes and building healthy boundaries
• Finding a balance between helping others and taking care of ourselves
• Developing a heart as wide as the world

“It’s possible to honor all of our feelings, even the heavy, negative feelings, and not allow them to destroy us.” – Krishna Das

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Dissolving our erroneous beliefs of separateness, Krishna Das shares the importance of continuous service and devotional practice.

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In this episode of Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das speaks about:

• Service anytime and anywhere
• Planting seeds for the fruits of our practice
• Clearing out blockages in the body with asana practice
• Krishna Das' deep friendship with Maharaj-ji
• Samadhi and emerging into deeper states of consciousness
• How mantra can uncover the presence of spiritual beings
• Realizing that we are not our egos
• The principal of Sub Ek, or, All One
• KC Tewari and the film Brilliant Disguise

“Service can be done anytime and anywhere. It doesn’t have to be your job, it doesn’t have to be a big deal, it doesn’t have to make you money. Real service is learning how to treat other people with the same love and respect that we would like to be treated. You can do that now.” – Krishna Das

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Gracefully describing the truth of love that unites all people, Krishna Das shares how self-compassion can extend into the world.

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This week, Krishna Das responds to questions on:

• The concept of Sub Ek, or, all one
• Making peace with the many paths to God
• How relationships help us see where we need to work on ourselves
• Having compassion for ourselves so we can extend kindness to others
• Recognizing the impact of our actions on the world
• Freewill versus the karmic seeds that we are born with
• Dealing with discomfort instead of seeking out pleasure
• Choosing whichever practice feels right to us
• Being open to whatever arises during our practice
• The subtle transformations that occur throughout our spiritual journey

“If we’re hard on ourselves, if we don’t have kindness and compassion for our own selves and our own stuff, we really can’t be kind for other people. We can pretend to be kind, which is what most of us do, but real kindness comes from recognizing that we’re all in this together. We’re all here together in this world and all of our actions are very powerful.” – Krishna Das

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Discover new approaches to overcoming life’s challenges! In this episode of the Pilgrim Heart Podcast, Krishna Das offers powerful teachings that empower you to take control of your own liberation from suffering.

In today's episode, KD reflects on:

• Developing the quality of bodhicitta
• Staying present through tragedy and suffering
• Changing how the present moment feels rather than being lost in the past
• The impossibility of avoiding pain
• Coping with the loss of a loved one
• Dealing with reality rather than seeking constant bliss
• Creating positive habits and releasing destructive emotions
• Practicing coming back to our breath
• Putting ourselves in others shoe’s when they hurt us

“It is our own minds that create the suffering and it is our minds that liberate us from suffering.” – Krishna Das

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Diving into principles of karma, Krishna Das describes how we can serve all beings and follow our own path, shares stories about his guru, Maharaj-ji, and much more.

Today’s episode originally aired on Krisha Das’ “Hanging Out In the Heart Space” online satsang on September 8th 2022. Be sure to subscribe to Krishna Das on Youtube to get new episodes of “Hanging Out In the Heart Space”, fresh music from KD and more: Krishna Das Music

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 In this episode, Krishna Das chants and answers questions on:

• Why and how he started singing kirtan
• Maharaj-ji’s guidance for Krishna Das to return to America
• The many ways that we can help people
• Finding our path and following it
• The many causes of disconnection from other people and ourselves
• Paying attention instead of being lost in our feelings
• Doing concentration practice and breath-awareness
• The many forms of one God and how this life shapes our future

“If you find your path and your practice and your heart’s love, then you’re in a different place. By following that, you’re actually serving all beings because you find your way of living in the world in a good way, and that includes everybody.” – Krishna Das

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This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das explores the experience and manifestation of enlightened beings and answers questions on Maharaj-ji, devotion, and more.

Today’s episode originally aired on Krisha Das’ “Hanging Out In the Heart Space” online satsang on August 18th 2022. Be sure to subscribe to Krishna Das on Youtube to get new episodes of “Hanging Out In the Heart Space”, fresh music from KD and more: Krishna Das Music

This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das holds a talk on:

• The experience and manifestation of enlightened beings
• Maharaj-ji’s guidance on chanting and repeating the name of God
• Cleaning our hearts so that there is room for Maharaj-ji
• Recognizing everything as grace but still continuing to do our practice
• Understanding what a real guru is versus what a disciple is
• Defining the soul as the way we can experience consciousness
• Becoming a pure servant to the guru through seeing them in everyone
• Training our minds to think of others instead of only ourselves
• Being aware of what we are singing when chanting so that our practice is truly devotional
• Finding light in the darkest moments

About Krishna Das:

Layering traditional Hindu kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Grammy nominee, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, Krishna Das – known to friends, family, and fans as simply KD – has taken the call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the best-selling chant artist of all time. His album ‘Live Ananda’ (released January 2012) was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age album category.

KD spent the late ’60s traveling across the country as a student of Ram Dass, and in August 1970, he finally made the journey to India, which led him to Ram Dass’ own beloved guru, Neem Karoli Baba, known to most as Maharaj-ji.

Krishna Das now travels the world sharing his kirtan practice and wonderful stories of his life, of Maharaji-ji, of his life on the Path and discusses bringing chanting into our lives through retreats and workshops. To date, KD has released 15 well-received albums, most recently Trust in the Heart released in October 2017.

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“The experience of all enlightened beings is all the same but the manifestation can be very different. Some sit up in a cave and nobody ever sees them and they do all their work silently, invisibly, from wherever they are. Others are more visible.” – Krishna Das

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In between devotional chants, Krishna Das guides listeners on the path of radical self-honesty and self-examination.

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This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das teaches us about:

• Facing our own egoistic desires
• Maharaj-ji’s guidance on chanting and repeating the name of God
• Surrendering by grace and being kind to ourselves
• Finding out what we really want to do
• Being honest with ourselves and examining ourselves closely
• The usefulness of therapy and spiritual practice in exploring our feelings
• How the state of the world feeds depression and anxiety
• Engaging with life fully and with an open heart
• The love that we have within ourselves as our true nature
• Helping ourselves so that we can help others

Today’s episode originally aired on Krisha Das’ “Hanging Out In the Heart Space” online satsang on June 9th 2022. Be sure to subscribe to Krishna Das on Youtube to get new episodes of “Hanging Out In the Heart Space”, fresh music from KD and more: Krishna Das Music

“Don’t be afraid, be honest with yourself, examine yourself as closely and as openly as you can, and see what comes up.” – Krishna Das

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