Each Sunday Talk highlights a specific area of spiritual life. In these audio files, Caru Das (a devotee of Lord Krishna for 53 years), clearly explains important aspects of the Bhakti Journey with relevance to modern life.
“Fabulous speaker! I can’t get enough of Caru Das. Wise, funny, engaging, entertaining and you feel the truth and integrity of his message. Forget religion and preconceptions about the Krishnas etc and just listen to be uplifted. You’ll feel like you’ve rediscovered the long lost human codex or manual to existence and satisfying living.” Laura
You can’t STOP people from saying things. You can’t PREVENT all the negative, but you don’t have to allow that to get INTO your spirit. You can dismiss it, and say, “You know what? I’m NOT DWELLING on it. I’m not going the next three days worried, playing out all the “what ifs,” wondering why […]
Krishna never does his greatest feats in your YESTERDAYS. They are always in your FUTURE. I’ve heard it said: “the path of the righteous gets BRIGHTER and BRIGHTER.” What Krishna has in FRONT of you is more fulfilling, more rewarding than anything you’ve seen in the PAST. However, sometimes before it gets brighter, it gets […]
Our words are setting the DIRECTION for our lives. If you want to know what you’re going to be like five years from now – LISTEN to what you’re saying about yourself. “I’ll never get well. I’ll never break this addiction. I’ll never meet the right person” – you are PROPHESYING your future. You can’t […]
We think we have to have a perfect performance for Krishna to bless us. Once we get rid of all these weaknesses. Once I overcome in these areas that I’m struggling in, then I’ll have Krishna ‘s favor. Then I’ll feel good about myself. Krishna is not looking for people who have a perfect performance, […]
If you insist on a TIME FRAME for WHEN it’s going to happen, and a METHOD of HOW it’s going to happen, you’re going to be frustrated. Krishna’s ‘s ways are not our ways. He’s working when we can’t see it. Sometimes it’s taking longer because He has something BETTER in store. One of the […]
Krishna knows how to protect you. Just as He can make blind eyes see, He can make seeing eyes blind. He can make you INVISIBLE to people and circumstances that want to harm you. One devotee said “Lord, You have not handed me over to the enemy, but you have kept me in a SAFE […]
Favor means honor, blessings, influence. We like those things, but we don’t always realize there’s a weight that comes with favor, a burden that comes with influence. If you’re not prepared for it, the favor won’t be a blessing. It will be a burden. We have to pass some tests before Krishna will trust us […]
Stir up the promises that you’ve pushed down. Stop saying “I’m too old. I’m not good enough. I don’t have the finances. Don’t have the connections… No Krishna has it all figured out. If you start dreaming again, X believing, X pursuing what Krishna put in yr heart, Krishna will make a way where you […]
If you see negatives everywhere you turn, the problem is not external, it’s internal. It’s a heart problem. Maybe it’s not the world that needs to change. Maybe it’s I who need to change. Maybe I need to break the habit of seeing the bad rather than the good Maybe I’ve trained myself to be […]
RELEASING IS TRUSTING, saying, “Krishna, even though it didn’t work out my way, even though I can’t be the king, all things work for my good.” I believe you STILL have something good in my future. There’s POWER in letting go. We’re not saying to let go of your dreams, your promises. We’re saying instead, […]