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July 2009 
Another night with Krishna Das
Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009
by 
Shanta-Marie
Shanta-Marie
I love living in SF bay area! I know other places do not have artists around fro several shows! Bless this city! I saw some of the regular peeps I had seen just this saturday, but also some that I hadn't seen saturday.
Kd shared his stories. I love stories, so his workshops really appeal to me. one of them was a story about these two Sadus who show up at the Ashram he lives in asking to stay. And Maharaji tells them they can stay if they will sit in front of the hanuman temple and chant "sita ram" all day. one day the westerners (that includes KD) are standing around talking near the sadus who are chanting "sita ram" in front of the temple. when one of them changes the rythm of the chant, and the other joins excitedly. pretty soon they are chanting some other things entirely different from what they had been instructed! From across the courtyard comes the loud voice of Maharaji saying "sita ram!" the sadu's quickly revert back to theier original instructions.....KD is very animated and funny while sharing this story with us and there is a good deal of tittering in the crowd...
KD goes on to share with us what he learned from that event: : "come back to the chant" always come back to the chant. I was thinking as he shared this how often i have been meditating for hours and then notice that i am actually sitting there daydreaming or making lists of things i have to do! and how much that is the time to come back to the breath. to noticing the breath....the chant serves as a meditation tool also. How does one give themselves 100% to what they are doing? practice. practice practice. "Practice makes practitioners" says one of my dear friends Maureen is fond of saying.
And as the evening ended with the Hanuman Chalisa and Sita Ram chant I was deeply enjoying the sense love filling my being. There is a point when I can chant "shree ram jai ram" during the entire chalisa keeping in mind that hanuman would rather hear Rams name than his own and simultaneously allowing the praises to hanuman fill my conciousness. I appreciate the skills of multi-tasking sometimes! I still have a long ways to go, but I am so grateful for these times of community, care and connection.
Went up to him afterwards, not really to say anything. Just to hold his hands look into his eyes and get a big hug. thank you KD for sharing your light....
Kd shared his stories. I love stories, so his workshops really appeal to me. one of them was a story about these two Sadus who show up at the Ashram he lives in asking to stay. And Maharaji tells them they can stay if they will sit in front of the hanuman temple and chant "sita ram" all day. one day the westerners (that includes KD) are standing around talking near the sadus who are chanting "sita ram" in front of the temple. when one of them changes the rythm of the chant, and the other joins excitedly. pretty soon they are chanting some other things entirely different from what they had been instructed! From across the courtyard comes the loud voice of Maharaji saying "sita ram!" the sadu's quickly revert back to theier original instructions.....KD is very animated and funny while sharing this story with us and there is a good deal of tittering in the crowd...
KD goes on to share with us what he learned from that event: : "come back to the chant" always come back to the chant. I was thinking as he shared this how often i have been meditating for hours and then notice that i am actually sitting there daydreaming or making lists of things i have to do! and how much that is the time to come back to the breath. to noticing the breath....the chant serves as a meditation tool also. How does one give themselves 100% to what they are doing? practice. practice practice. "Practice makes practitioners" says one of my dear friends Maureen is fond of saying.
And as the evening ended with the Hanuman Chalisa and Sita Ram chant I was deeply enjoying the sense love filling my being. There is a point when I can chant "shree ram jai ram" during the entire chalisa keeping in mind that hanuman would rather hear Rams name than his own and simultaneously allowing the praises to hanuman fill my conciousness. I appreciate the skills of multi-tasking sometimes! I still have a long ways to go, but I am so grateful for these times of community, care and connection.
Went up to him afterwards, not really to say anything. Just to hold his hands look into his eyes and get a big hug. thank you KD for sharing your light....
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