My Spiritual Journey

To some it appears that the disciple/devotee pays homage to a man or a woman, but in fact it is the Divine being of disciple/devotee honoring the Divine being of their Guru. Of course, as told to me, no one attends Guru Purnima, unless Guruji intends for you to be there. On a Sunday in July of 2017, I watched as KrsnaKnows Ashram enjoyed the day of celebrating their Guru, KrsnaKnows , The love and worship of the Guru is ancient. The celebration impressed me so much, I looked up the date for Guru Purnima 2018 and created a reminder in my phone to be sure I would watch the next one. At that time, I was an anonymous attendee of the recorded classes. As the year (2017) progressed I was blessed with the invitation by Krsna to attend the classes live and was further blessed to have one-on-one satsangs with Him. Krsna said the best company for a person seeking a spiritual life is the company of Holy people and  he suggested that I speak with other students and find out ab...

Krsna’s domain is the Heart and the path is Faith, Surrender, Love and Devotion. Some twenty years ago, a person asked if I believed in God. Looking at the vastness around me (the sky and the earth), I asked, “How could there not be a God?” Yet, it took until now for me to have an ongoing relationship God. I am grateful to KrsnaKnows for setting me on this path, the best path, the one the path open to all without qualification, the path of Bhakti yoga (Devotional Love of God). Stepping forward in Faith was important, but that did not bring me to devotion, it was a stepping stone to surrendering to my Guru, a Spiritual Master. As an American, the concept of a “Master” is unsettling. The mere use of the word Master conjures the images of the horrible human slavery that took place here. However, the Spiritual Master is not a slave owner. He or She is not an oppressor. One does not become a slave under this type of Master. It is against human nature to surrender, but what one s...

When the time came for me to step forward you spoke of Faith. You held me securely in your heart and I leapt . Basilica of Bom Jesus Goa, India For me, KrsnaKnows' Internet presence was a lifeline. Something beyond my understanding happened to me in 2016 , and I found great comfort in His teachings. In an effort to express my gratitude and because I wanted to be known, I sent an email through the KrsnaKnows website. When Krsna's kind response came with an invitation to join the Saturday and Sunday Satsang, I was thrilled. Blessed with an invitation to join, it was now up to me to take the next step. Admittedly, I fought my tendency to conceal myself. I was possessed of fear. My apprehension did not stem from joining the group, it stemmed from a fear that as I reached out, somehow the connection would vanish. But at the moment I needed it, Faith was bestowed on me. Soon after joining the weekly satsangs, Krsna offered to train me in spiritual. KrsnaKnows has no...

Thank you, Krsna for casting such a broad net, that I might rise with You, free from the weight of this material world.  MyKrsnaGuru As I searched the Internet for answers, I came to hear the KrsnaKnows podcasts. Krsna’s Satsang podcasts conveyed the unfettered truth, full of sincerity, patience and Godly conviction.  His style was full of candor and blunt honesty. The Preceptor held my attention for hours on end. I listened over and over as He dutifully executed His mandate. Shortly thereafter, I saw KrsnaKnows' YouTube recordings of the Bhagavad Gita Satsangs and those of the Srimad Bhagavatam too. Wow! I have to admit that since the podcasts had no visual component, the voice I knew (in my mind's eye), had a very different body attached to it. I’m blushing now, but you know, He is all-attractive.  A few months had passed with me tuned in almost daily. When the Shri Guru Charitra readings were posted I was overcome with Love as I listened. I...

Thank you KrsnaKnows for the impetus to write this blog and for the all the blessings you have bestowed on me. Rising Sun Throughout the year (2016) I had many moments where I believed that God was moving me and prompting me to act. The fact that I thought it was God communicating with me was a foreign idea. God could not have picked a less “God involved” person than myself, with whom to communicate. Yet, on several occasions in 2016, I said to my husband, “I think God is speaking to me.” Having taken up oil painting a few years prior, I was attending a training workshop in a neighboring state.   On the drive down to Maryland, I gave some thought to the feeling I had that God was drawing me nearer to Him.   I considered the possibility that I may be dying and that was the cause of God’s growing presence in my life.   So, I reviewed my life and decided if indeed it were time for me to leave this life that would be fine.   I pronounced my life ha...

So, here it goes... Let me first state that I am a neophyte in this spiritual world and it is only with my KrsnaGuru's grace that I am writing. Despite having been baptized as an infant and later given communion and confirmation as a child within the Catholic Church, I was quite unaware of God.  But when I was 9 years old, my father passed away from acute leukemia.  Within six months of his diagnosis, he was gone. His brothers, my uncles told me that God wanted my father to be with him at his right side. This was my first awareness of God. This God I felt did not care about me. This God took my father from me.  I did not care to know this merciless God. Later, as a young person, I was fully immersed in the temperament of the time. The 1970's, in my area of America, brought a wave of self-centerness in adult parents fueled by a cultural acceptance of alcohol use that left a generation of adolescents...