[clip] Krishna Das interview in Hawaii, May 2007

Part of transcript:

[Are you only attached to Bhakti yoga practice..? ]

bhakti yoga.. means merging in love.. yoga means becoming one with [something]..

the quality of becoming one with wisdom..  you know the direction to look.. you can look for love in the right place.. which is in one’s own heart..

it’s not about becoming attached to one yoga or one practice.. you have to be attached to Love more than what you think about things .. and you want to give it up.. so that you can feel..

[ Are you closer to knowing who you are? ]

i don’t care so much about how i feel, the way i used to care.. i care more about having my heart  available and being in touch with that Love..

i don’t know if you ever really know who you are.. coz ultimately who you think you are disappear and you are left with what you truly are..

[Do you think you reach the state of equanimity..?]
surrender..
.. unlearn the incorrect thinking about ourselves..
do that by spiritual practice

it’s not something that you are responsible for making it happen.. you have to recognise the [spiritual] qualities are already within us.. why you don’t know it.. and you have to find out why you don’t know it..

when you meet somebody without all those things [pride, covetousness, greed...].. you can’t imagine the Light that shines through

it’s not about creating a YOU that you can like.. we are trying to love ourselves coz we don’t.. so we try to do something.. be somebody or find somebody outside whom we can love.. rather than removing the things that are keeping us from seeing who we are..

and all these practices does what’s about..