Ep. 184 – The Heart of Healing: Lessons on Love and Personal Responsibility

Encouraging listeners to take responsibility for their own inner healing, Krishna Das discusses cleansing the heart of betrayal, hurt, and grief.

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This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das provides wisdom on:

• Meeting Anandamayi Ma and what it means to have darshan with a guru 
• Accepting people as they are and loving unconditionally
• Recognizing where we really are on our spiritual journey so that we can see where our work lies
• How all things are accomplished through the repetition of the name 
• Navigating parental relationships and seeing our parents as people instead of only parents
• Taking responsibility to cleanse our hearts of betrayal, hurt, and pain
• Practicing seva (selfless service) and offering love to the world around us
• Holding grief with compassion and allowing ourselves to move through it with care
• Simplifying our practice: treating others the way we want to be treated 
• How Maharaj-ji scoffed at superficiality and preferred authentic practice, even if it wasn’t meditation

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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 “Our relationship with our parents can be very difficult. We don’t know our parents as people; we only know them as our parents. We don’t know how many times their hearts were broken. We don’t know how their parents treated them. We don’t know what they’ve gone through that made them into the person they are now...When your parents lay a trip on you, if you get caught in reacting, that's your problem, not theirs. They are allowed to be who they are.” – Krishna Das

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