It’s common for devotees to feel unqualified or unworthy to serve guru and Krsna. This is helpful when it is a natural symptom of spiritual advancement. But it is detrimental when, out of an unhealthy psychology, we either feel unworthy of receiving Krsna’s grace, or feel unworthy of being loved by Krsna. Spiritual unworthiness and […]
Surrender The word itself doesn’t bode well with many of us. The word surrender evokes fears of losing freedom, of losing control, even of losing individual identity. Surrender can bring up connotations of ‘forced acceptance’. For many of us, the first image that comes to mind when we hear ‘surrender’ is that of the battle […]
In past newsletters I have spoken a lot about goals. In this newsletter we look at one important reason you and I may not achieve all our goals – or even attempt them in the first place. Sometimes when a goal is very large or appears difficult or impossible to achieve, our minds shut down […]