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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