Krishna Das – Hanuman, Maharaj-ji & You 2022

In this transformative course, you’ll explore:

• Guided chants that will deepen as you move through the course — so you can take these teachings and practices with you into your daily life
• The transformative gift of Maharaj-ji in KD’s life over the last 50 years, even after Maharaj-ji left his body
• How to find the guru that’s already living within you
• The great saints and the great beings — and how and why their presence in the world has such a powerful impact on us today
• How to begin from where you are, in the middle of the Path
• How your personality, identity in the world, and inner emotional life are a result of your previous karma — and who you’ll ultimately become is a result of the karma you create right now
• Chanting the Names of God, a chanting practice to open your heart and quiet your mind
• How the unity of mindfulness, devotion, and compassion can lead you to a oneness of love that transforms your daily life
• Ways to cultivate your own daily devotional chanting practice to give you a higher perspective on your life and the world

In this opening module, KD will talk about the great saints and the great beings — and how and why their presence in the world has such a powerful impact on us.

If there weren’t saints and great beings, we wouldn’t be here. According to KD, they’re always with you, running the show. Yet you can’t go looking for them. They must find you.

KD will guide you to contemplate the question, What does it mean to be a human being and what is possible for a human being to attain?

You’ll be introduced to spiritual practices and techniques that will carry on and deepen as you move through the five modules. When the course comes to a close, you’ll have teachings and practices to take with you and use in your daily life.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The meaning of the term “saint” as KD uses it in this course, and how it’s used differently depending on the context and time
• The invocatory prayer KD always shares to start off his kirtan, the Hanuman Stavan — a collection of stotras in praise of the powers, deeds and devotion of Lord Hanuman
• Stories from KD about his gurus Neem Karoli Baba (NKB, or Maharaj-ji) and Sri Siddhi Ma, Shirdi Sai Baba, Ramana Maharshi, the Buddha, and others
• Transformative wisdom from KD’s gurus, the great saints, and the great beings that you can bring into your daily life starting now
• A guided call-and-response chant, Sri Ram Jai Ram, honoring Rama, who represents loyalty, responsibility, and the social and spiritual duties of the individual

In this module, Krishna Das will share in-depth wisdom about his guru, NKB, Maharaj-ji.

He’ll explain how they met, his experiences living with Maharaj-ji in India, what he learned from Maharaj-ji, and what he learned from the older Indian devotees who surrounded Maharaj-ji.

KD will reflect on the gift of his guru’s presence in his life over the last 50 years, even after Maharaj-ji left the body.

He’ll also talk about how to find the guru that’s living within you (and everyone).

KD will explain that when you have a guru, you’ll understand that no matter what life brings, you have the choice to not live as a victim.

In every moment that arises, you can simply be present… and when you recognize the guru within you, you can develop the inner strength to navigate the now.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• The hopeful, calming, transformational force that KD experienced after his guru left the body
• Vinaya Chalisa, a devotional prayer to the guru written by an Indian devotee and chanted regularly in Maharaj-ji’s temples
• A return to the guided chant Hanuman Stavan
• The 40 verses in praise of Neem Karoli Baba

What does it mean to begin in the middle?

In this module, KD will explain how to begin from where you are, in the middle of the Path, your Path.

He’ll share how you are who you are as a result of your previous karma — it shapes your personality, your identity in the world, and your emotional life.

Who you’ll ultimately become is a result of the karma you manifest right now.

All that’s required is simplicity, sincerity, honesty, and the strength and courage to look at your “stuff” (self-loathing, doubt, and more) and release it, over and over and over again.

In the process, you’ll become more familiar and more at ease with yourself.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The importance of what KD calls cleaning the mirror of the heart — recognizing your current state and the challenges or blocks that keep you from living your best life
• How the practice of grounding relates to devotional practices
• Two simple Buddhist meditation practices that have great power to free you from negative emotions — and bring you back from the dreamland where most people live
• A return to the guided chant Hanuman Stavan
• A guided meditation practice once taught by Dipa Ma — an extraordinary Buddhist saint who lived in modern days and was a teacher of the first group of Western Buddhist teachers
• A guided loving-kindness practice, also known as Metta

In this module, Krishna Das will guide you to explore moving within.

You’ll start by contemplating what the concept of within actually means.

KD will share the story of the Buddha recognizing his own innate joy, which led to his enlightenment. The Buddha later expressed this by calling his path the Middle Way.

KD will teach the practice of Chanting the Names of God — which, as he’ll explain, are also the names of the Presence within you and within all of us.

These names are the sound of the surf of the Ocean of Love. They hold the power to help you find your way back to that ocean. As KD says, we don’t have to create or manufacture any emotions or feelings. All we have to do is remember.

You’ll consider how everyone has their own path to this ocean, but we all wind up in the same place.

KD calls Chanting the Names “the practice for this age,” a spiritual practice that will open your heart and quiet your mind.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to remind yourself of the richness of your natural state as you engage in spiritual practices
• Why freeing yourself from constant obsessive thinking about yourself is so essential
• Lessons we can all learn from Hanuman, a fully liberated being who lives only to serve the Love within, which he calls “Ram”
• The Chanting the Names of God practice
• A return to the guided chant Hanuman Stavan
• Hanuman Chalisa, a practice to clean the mirror of the mind, purify the heart — and free you from your subjective version of the world

The path that I’m on is not the renunciate path. My path is to live fully in the world, the best way possible. Maharaj-ji said, “Love everyone. Serve everyone. Remember God.” He never told us to go live in the jungle.
— Krishna Das

In this closing module, Krishna Das will discuss the unity of mindfulness, devotion, and compassion.

He’ll share the importance of these three qualities and how they can lead you to a oneness of love that transforms your daily life.

KD will guide you to revisit and summarize all the practices you’ve learned over the last four module. You’ll explore how to bring these spiritual practices into your daily life — so you’ll feel empowered to continue growing.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• What to expect as you incorporate these spiritual practices into your everyday life
• Why your expectations can become an obstacle to your growth
• How to recognize the subtle signs that you’re becoming a more conscious, compassionate being
• A final journey through the guided chant Hanuman Stavan