In this heart-led exploration, Krishna Das shares how mantra, willpower, and grace guide us from the illusion of ego and into the freedom of real love.

This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das offers wisdom on:

• Inspiration from Maharaj-ji’s picture, dream visits, and more
• How the soul pulls us towards real love and freedom
• Why meditating/chanting/any form of practice is a good idea
• The jungle guru who helped Krishna Das with his will power
• Using our will in a constructive way to free ourselves from suffering
• Solving the problem of what is really holding us back
• Repeating the name of God as a gradual method to purify our minds and hearts
• Falling out of the ‘movie of me’ through mantra

“There's mantras for everything. There's mantras for robbing banks, for finding buried treasure, for controlling snakes, for becoming president of the United States, but kirtan is the chanting of the names, which is only good for one thing, finding real love. It's not good for controlling other people, getting rich, anything except finding real love and connecting deeply to our own true nature” – Krishna Das

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Discussing how to work through afflictions like addiction, heartbreak, and self-hatred, Krishna Das gives spiritual guidance to listeners.

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This week on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das explains:

• Learning to chant the Hanuman Chalisa
• Working with addiction as a part of the spiritual path
• Developing the ability to stop hurting ourselves
• Looking within, not without, in order to do spiritual work in all parts of our daily lives
• Comparing Hanuman with the Holy Spirit
• Remembering that nothing lasts in this world
• Relationships as a neurotic need rather than true, deep love
• The universal experience of heartbreak and all situations as impermanent
• Opening the heart, quieting the mind, and connecting to a deeper place within ourselves
• Considering others and doing what we can to help

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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“We have to develop the ability to stop hurting ourselves because we have the soul. If we’re just hurting ourselves and engaging in addictive, dangerous, destructive behavior, it’s like we’re beating ourselves up. This program that’s running, this self-hatred program that’s causing this behavior, it is spiritual work to try to free yourself from that.” – Krishna Das

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Revealing the true Buddha nature, which rests beyond ego, Krishna Das shows how regular practice can unveil the inherent purity within us all.

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This time on Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das gets into

• Desireless action and other teachings of the Gita
• The ‘evil’ within us all (selfishness, greed, anger, etc.)
• How our ego tries to protect itself from others
• The ways we feed our hungry desires at the expense of anything in our way
• Buddha nature and finding the pureness within each soul
• Developing both internal and external repetition of the name
• Balancing ultimate and relative reality in our daily lives
• Finding faith in the stories of the great beings that came before us
• Making the world a better place through practice
• The Hungry Hearts Prayer and working to relieve suffering

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“It’s not that we're intrinsically evil. Actually, it’s the opposite. We’re intrinsically good. Our essence, our Buddha nature, is within everyone. The soul is absolutely pure, it is untouched by all this stuff.” – Krishna Das

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