Summary: Call and Response Ep. 66 |Find Out Who You Are<br> Q: I started thinking, I don’t have a Guru in form, maybe I’m not doing something right. What if the practices won’t be as beneficial because I don’t have a Guru?<br> “What you’re looking for is your Self. Your true Self. Rama, Krishna, Radha, Sita, these are the Names of that Place inside of you. There’s no reason to manufacture anything or visualize anything other than to be present and the Name itself will reveal your deeper places as you go deeper into the repetition of the Name, as your thoughts allow you to.” – Krishna Das<br> Q: Hello.<br> KD: Hi.<br> Q: Hi. Thank you so much.<br> KD: Ok.<br> Q: My question, I’m Katie, and I starred in a movie called…<br> KD: You’re who?<br> Q: Katie.<br> KD: That’s me.<br> Q: I know, right?<br> KD: Are we one?<br> Q: I think that’s were supposed to be right, maybe?<br> KD: No, you blew it. We’re not one.<br> Q: Crap.<br> KD: Ok.<br> Q: I always do that.<br> KD: You didn’t really blow it because we really are one.<br> Q: Ok, so my question is twofold, the first part is, yesterday you talked about the practices opening your heart and really, you do this, paraphrasing, “to love the world so that you can really…”<br> KD: Did I say that?<br> Q: Maybe not exactly but in a way.<br> KD: Oh yeah, ok.<br> Q: So you can give this love to Maharajji and I was like, at first I was going along with it and then when you said, “To give it to Maharajji,” I was like, I was like, “Oh, he’s not just loving to like, love me, he’s doing it for something greater.” So, I got caught up in that. And so, then I started thinking, I don’t have a Guru in form, maybe I’m not doing something right. What if the practices won’t be as beneficial because I don’t have a Guru? So that’s part one.<br> KD: That’s part one? That looked like part 10. Somebody else remember this? Did you write this down? We’ll go back and start at the beginning, ok? Why don’t we just, can we deal with one?<br> Q: yeah.<br> KD: Because one’s like, huge.<br> Q: Ok.<br> KD: And tomorrow come back for number two. Or next year or whatever. What was, ok, start at the beginning. So, ok, so you misquoted me five times in the first five things you said, which was very nice of you, thank you.<br> Q: Paraphrased, sorry. Not direct quote.<br> KD: Well, ok, you paraphrased somebody else because I never said that shit.<br> Q: Ok. Something about the practices, you wanted to open your heart, right? Or learn to love the world?<br> KD: Well, ok.<br> Q: And to give that, and you do this so you can give your love to Maharajji.<br> KD: No.<br> Q: Ok.<br> KD: That’s where we go wrong.<br> Q: Ok.<br> KD: It’s a misunderstanding. And because, first of all, ok, hm. Jesus. What I was talking about, why I sing, I sing to enter more deeply into the Presence of Love. Ok? For me, I call that “Maharajji.” You don’t have to call that “Maharajji.” But that’s how I got the hit, right? So, for me, He is that love that’s everywhere all the time. It’s not a guy. You know? Not some dude with a blanket. So, but I know that if I say it that way, it’s easily taken just the way you took it, you know, and I kind of apologize for that because I didn’t mean to say that you have to love Him that way, otherwise you know, you’re not going to make it. It’s not like that at all. These great Beings, Rama and Sita, Radha Krishna, Hanuman, these great Beings are manifestations of the love that is who we are also and that who everybody is. And the love in which the universe floats, so to speak. So, when I chant, I’m trying to, by doing the practice just the way I described it to you, when I notice I’m not paying attention, I come back, try to give myself fully to the practice as much as I can, I’m moving more deeply into that open space of love which is everywhere and everybody. Everybody’s inside of that. But we’re identified with the little meat puppet, right?
