Krishna Das on Love, Life, Death, and Ego

http://www.fireitupwithcj.com/| An interview with yoga rock star, Krishna Das, covering his spiritual journey and his thoughts on love, life, death and ego.

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Part 1: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?
Part 2: Krisha Das's understanding of unconditional love and how a friend helped him deepen his understanding of love. Why our current definition of love is broken?
Part 3: Why chanting helps Krishna Das find home again?
Part 4: Death and leaving the body.
Part 5: Is a spiritual practice self-indulgent?
Part 6: Krishna Das's AHA moment that changed his life.

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My favorite quotes:
Part 1: " A spiritual path helps relieves the burden of self-hatred, self-limitations, and self-judgement, and when it's gone, we experience who we are directly".

Part 2:
"If you don't have it (love), you are looking for it. If you have it, you are it."
"Unconditional love is who we are, but we don't know that."

"Our definition of love ensures we aren't going to get it"

"Relationships are a business. LOVE lasts 24 hours a day. Being love is being space and everything".

Part 3:
(about chanting) "If we don't realize who we are not, we will never find out who we are".

"Most people get born, drink beer, go to sleep, and that's it. They die, and they do it again. Everyday they have no clue that there is anything else to look for, anything to find, any other way of living"

" One thing I know, is when I sing everything is ok. 'When I'm chanting everything is ok. I can deal with it. And I don't mean only chanting with people. When I'm centered, when that is happening within me, when I remember what is, whatever happens is dealable with".

"The chanting reminds me over and over again, what is real and what is important. It helps bring me back home again, and again, and again. And you get used to being at home, so you don't go so far away. You realize that everything is already here. "

Part 5:
I was in a place that I couldn't get out of. I was unable to do the thing I needed to do to save myself. To save my ass.and my own stuff was preventing me from doing that. My own desires, my own hungers, you know just humanenes was preventing me from doing the practice the way it had to be done. I was going to use the chanting to feed all my desires, which wasn't going to help me or anyone else and that's not why I was doing the practice. Chanting with people was the only thing I could do was to help myself

"The yearning of my heart was being destroyed by me. I was unable to fill that yearning. I was too hungry".

"Nor did I recognize the only thing that was required at the time, which was surrender.So, I was helpless, but If I had really seen that I was helpless.. that would have been surrender.

And he showed me that there was no me at all. It was just a fantasy. I was freed to tome back and really sing, because it wasn't about me at all. And even if people thought it was me, that's ok. And even if I forget and think it's me. It isn't. Even if I think it is, the truth is actually not that.

"My motivation is to simply come home. To remember and that's what the practice (chanting) helps me with".


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