Total Page : 288
Publisher : Hay House
Publication Date : 2010 02 15
>> Maharaj ji is so proud of you Krishna Das
I am a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and also very intuitive The feeling I received as I was reading the pages of this book was that your guru is incredibly happy with this book Krishna Das You spoke directly from your Soul and therefore it is the Souls of us readers who can resonate with your words This book opens the doors into a very personal account of one man s struggles and delights with the Spiritual Path of Chanting Service and following his Guru The book feels like a poem I also appreciate hearing SO many stories I have never heard before about Maharaj ji That rascal continues to grow even more mysterious to me after reading your accounts Especially the one about possibly still being alive WOW May all blessings pour down on you forever more for your Love your Heart your willingness to stay open and to be so brave to share the dark spots as well in the hopes it may help some of us on our journey as well Ram Ram Keep Rocking On Hanuman
>> Inspiring Loved It
Loved the book I enjoyed every page of it By the end of it I felt as though I personally and intimately knew Krishna Das and his Beloved The modern day version of Autobiography of a Yogi It made me reflect on my own spiritual journey never feeling like I had to emulate his and finding my own way to God The Graying of the Hippie Generation The CD of Chants is truly a transcendent experience
>> A MAP HOME
The great Hatha Yogi and teacher TKV Desikachar once said If you tell a person who cannot find their own house that there is a pot of gold inside they would be happier had they not had this information What use is the gold if it cannot be found It only causes pain First they must find the house and enter it Then there are many possibilities His message outlines the dilemma peculiar to our age and culture for those of us embarking on a spiritual path today We long for the promised gold of love that we are told lies at the heart of our true nature but our history in the West particularly has been to seek our treasure on the outside We have not been taught how to love ourselves It is dark in this place and we have lost our way home
In his new book Chants of A Lifetime Searching for a Heart of Gold Krishna Das gives us the story of his own path and in the offering provides us with a light to help guide us on our return journey home With the characteristic informality warmth and humor that we have come to know as his signature style at his kirtans KD chronicles the story of a spiritual journey that is American at its roots He is no yogi who might seem to be talking to us from a world set on high and apart We know him his trials are familiar to us He is our son our brother our father our friend His unflinching honesty regarding his setbacks along the way is all the more assurance for us that what he has to say about grace and developing a practice is real and accessible to us right now just as we are His journey setting out as a young man from New York to India and receiving the grace of his guru Neem Karoli Baba and back again is more than a story of redemption passed down from a saint nor are his spiritual lessons restricted to the singing of Hindu chants When Maharaj ji his guru died KD s work was to re integrate the lessons that he learned at his feet to find home within himself His life travels led him to explore beyond any one set of spiritual practices to discover those that followed over time gradually but inevitably began to dissolve the veil of the false self He offers his map the practices of Lovingkindness meditation chanting the names of God as the means through which we too may develop faith based in a personal understanding that the gold that we are looking for exists and can be found Enclosed for our use with the book we are given a cd of chants we can begin our journey immediately
