A transformative online ceremony for awakening the Wonders of Krishna Consciousness
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- Cost: $77 CDN
- Minimum age to receive the healing & activation: 9 years ~ please read the FAQ’s pertaining to children
- Minimum age to attend on Zoom: The legal age of majority (adulthood) in the country you reside in
- Further Details & Registration: Please click the link at the bottom
What a delightful honour it is to invite you to this ceremony with Lord Krishna, and to transmit his holy presence to you. To give you the sacred opportunity to merge with his Cosmic Consciousness, feel his loving radiance as your own, and have old pain alchemized into the Krishna light you are!
The description that follows is unlike any of my other ceremonies. Instead of elucidating details on trauma, trauma resolution, programming, attachment theory, world affairs, and other related matters, as I normally do, I felt called to focus primarily on the story of Krishna, inviting you to feel into his limitless presence in the process. While words are obviously necessary to point towards this Immortal One, they are highly inadequate in capturing the ineffable essence of the Lord of All Life and Death, as he is sometimes called. Another impossibility is outlining in depth the rich array of adventures that make up his multifaceted human story in such little space. But here I do my best, leaving out so much for you to discover yourself, in your own way, and in your heart.
With all this said, the following description is longer than normal, but necessarily so. Once again, I hope my words and the consciousness woven through them open your heart to the Wonders of Lord Krishna. Near the end, I return to the basics, pulling the pieces together into the ceremony at hand.
Enjoy!
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I am the ritual and the worship,
the medicine and the mantra,
the butter burnt in the fire,
and I am the flames that consume it.
I am the father of the universe
and its mother, essence and goal
of all knowledge, the refiner, the sacred
Om, and the threefold Vedas.
I am the beginning and the end,
origin and dissolution,
refuge, home, true lover,
womb and imperishable seed.
I am the heat of the sun,
I hold back the rain and release it;
I am death, and the deathless,
and all that is or is not.
~ Words of Lord Krishna, from Bhagavad Gita, transcribed by Stephen Mitchell
Believed to be born in 3228 BCE in Mathura, India, Krishna was Lord Vishnu The Preserver’s eighth avatar or incarnation. The name Krishna comes from the Sanskrit Krsna, which means “attractive one,” “dark blue,” “dark,” or “black.” He is celebrated with 108 names, like Bal Gopal, Radhesh, Kanha, Vasudev, Bali, Dayanidhi, and Jagadisha. Each is associated with different divine qualities or deeds. For example, Bali means Lord of Strength; Dayanidhi means The Compassionate Lord; and Jagadisha means Protector of All. As you will see, Krishna certainly lived up to these and so many other divine titles in the countryside and towns of India, and in the hearts of his people.
Expanding beyond the Hindu pantheon, we can associate the name Krishna with Christ. Christ is Khrist and Krishna is Chrishna. Krishna is Christ light, as one field of consciousness, what Christianity calls the “One Begotten Son” — the Great Central Sun, expressed in infinite diversity. Further, these two words are related to Crystal and Crystalline, or Christ–Krishna-aligned. Activating the crystalline codes of your spiritual DNA aligns you with the multidimensional Christ or Krishna light of your Higher Self, which is what this ceremony supports.
Let’s now move deeper into the wonderful story of Krishna. What has it stand out from the records of other avatars are the many delights and astonishing adventures of his childhood; how much his playful innocence has been celebrated by Hindus and non-Hindus alike, and how early he realized and used his limitless, celestial powers. Searching for images of Krishna online, it’s highly likely that you’ll find more of him as a young one than an adult. You’ll see his fresh-face smile beaming with de-light, and his eyes big and bright, full of wonder, two dancing, twinkling Cosmos looking right back at you, inviting the mysteries of your heart to open to his, and to your unbounded innocence.
Born fully awake, a charming little one, indeed, he wasn’t lacking any of the mischievous, curious, playful qualities that make up healthy, happy children. He loved to get into all sorts of trouble, like stealing freshly churned butter from his neighbours, driving his mother Yasoda mad at times. This buoyant, endearing quality represents the free soul who struggles to fit in and play by the rules; who comes to stretch and break limits. Little Krishna’s innocent trouble-making invites the disrupter or rascal in all of us to turn things upside down so social conventions can be viewed from an entirely different light and attachments can be surrendered. His untamed mischief inspires the child within to dare question, explore and risk!
There is another side to this popular story of stealing butter. That Krishna stole not simply from his mischievous spirit, but from magnanimousness. He took butter to feed his hungry friends; and did so from the Gopis of Vrindavana, the women cowherds who adored him, and who left butter out for him, praying he would “steal” their gifts of love. “By stealing the butter,” Amma shares, “not only did Krishna answer their prayers, but also stole their hearts. That was why he was known as Chitta Chora, Stealer of Hearts.”
From boyhood onwards Krishna loved his flute, and would play it for his young friends and beloved Gopis. Often depicted standing around him in absolute devotion, the Gopis would take in the music of his flute and soul as one Symphony of Harmonious Joy. Some say the Gopi women were jealous of his flute, of how much attention he gave it as compared to them. Instincts tell me that the devotees, well on their spiritual path, and well-besotted by Krishna and the flute/music he was one with, would have in no way wished for the instrument’s disappearance.
In the flute we can find more spiritual symbolism and meaning. Light and empty, with Krishna, it was filled with the Breath of Life, playing the Music of Love, of Vishnu, of Brahman, of the Starry Heavens. Its sweet melodies played by the sweetness of the Lord’s innocence stilled the minds and softened the bodies of its listeners, emptying and lightening them so they, too, could breathe more life and share sweet hymns. So they, in their surrendered spaciousness, could be sacred instruments for life.
One beautiful and famous tale shares how, after a long search, the Gopis found Krishna along the banks of the River Yamuna. Together, they engaged in the Rasa Dance, a true dance of love, union and lila, or play. Krishna, still only a boy, multiplied himself so each Gopi had a Krishna to dance and be enraptured in Prema, Divine Love, with. The Gopis completely forgot the world, as they ecstatically merged with the Heart of the Lord, which was everywhere. Once tired and disheveled, they melted into the warm waters of the river. Here, we again see the theme of play and joy in the heart and legacy of Krishna who wants us to reclaim our non-serious nature as one with the Cosmic Playground, the Eternal Dance of Creation.
The Divine Play for Krishna also included many encounters with its shadows. As a child, at the tender age of seven, he rescued his entire village from the deluge set forth by the angry Lord of Storms, Indra. Lifting Mount Govardhana with only his baby finger, he held it high for seven days like an umbrella, under which people and livestock sought refuge. Krishna, still as a young boy, also cast out the serpent demon Kaliya who had poisoned a lake whose clean waters the locals depended greatly upon. Little Krishna also swallowed a forest fire on the bank of the River Yamuna, once again saving his people.
For little Krishna, his role of being a saviour often entailed being a destroyer as well, if we consider how many asuras, or demons, he had to conquer. One after another, they were sent his way by his maniacal uncle, King Kamsa. Kamsa learned, prior to Krishna’s birth, that one of his sister Devaki’s future children (Krishna) would eventually kill him for his many evil deeds as a ruthless leader; a prophecy the Lord one day fulfilled. Determined to save his life and continue his rule, Kamsa unleashed a number of asuras onto young Krishna; like Trinavarta, the Whirlwind demon, and Bakasura, the Stork demon. Yet each was no match for the Godly Krishna, the Divine Destroyer, who slayed them in industrious and shrewd ways!
Kamsa’s irrepressible urge to annihilate Krishna portrays dark’s eternal dance with light; and, specifically, the threat great luminaries have always been to dark warriors. We can add Krishna to the list of Wise Wild Ones, like Marguerite Porete, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Jesus, and many more, who were targeted by evil rulership that wished to control and destroy the uncontrollable. That couldn’t bear such unruly radiance, the uncontainable effulgence that dark is most terrified of.
Returning to the demons, each represents different aspects of egoic delusion and suffering, or patterns of karma or darkness. Trinavarta, for example, represents pride; and Bakasura represents cunning duplicity, deception and hypocrisy, which there is plenty of in the world right now! Symbolically speaking, we can assume that Krishna did not slay external demons; rather, his thousand-sun luminosity transmuted these karmic patterns within those open and ready, releasing them from their bondage to suffering. With Krishna being a Mahavatar, we can also expand this “demonic alchemy” to cleansing the collective field of imbalances and impurities so souls are less likely to fall prey to their darkened ways. Great Avatars, which Mahavatar means, have this power to “clear the global air,” so to speak, to transform global consciousness at extraordinary levels.
In his adult life, the Lord of Yoga was a political statesman, eloquent, skilled and impassioned in speech and influence. Called to inspire peace with a civil war impending between two clans of a royal family, the Kauravas (antagonists) and Pandavas (protagonists), Krishna made a stunning speech before the assembly at the court of Dhritarashtra, named after the blind King of the Kauravas. There, to the King and his eldest son, Duryodhana, he exhorted through reconciliation, negotiation and firmness to avert war. Krishna fulfilled his duty to advocate for peace, though he likely knew the outcome all along. That, in the end, his wise statesmanship would not be enough. For, with hearts shrouded, the Kauravas rulership remained steadfast, and war was to be had with the Pandavas.
The story of this battle is what the Mahabharata recounts, an epic poem that, as Stephen Mitchell points out, is eight times the length of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combined. The centrepiece of this poem is Bhagavad Gita, which means “The Song of the Blessed One.” Along with the timeless mantras dedicated to Krishna, the story and teachings of the Gita have been most instrumental in bringing him into hearts and minds around the world.
Within Gita’s battle story we find Krishna as the charioteer for the reluctant warrior Arjuna, one of the brothers and chief protagonists of the Pandavas. Deeply conflicted about leading the charge and slaughtering his enemies consisting of many kinsmen, Arjuna is struck with overwhelm and despair on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Tears streaming down, he decides he simply cannot fight. It is here that the great story commences, with Krishna delivering a crystalline cascade of sublime teachings, 701 verses or slokas on, among other things: death, and the glories of ultimate reality and eternality; non-attachment, particularly to one’s actions; and on the importance of living honourably and fulfilling one’s duty, which for some includes courageously charging into battle and killing what cannot truly be killed.
While some may feel conflicted about the message of Krishna to Arjuna to fight like a warrior, that it opposes the teachings of love, mercy and nonviolence that all great sages have brought, including Gandhi who revered Bhagavad Gita as his “eternal mother,” Krishna reminds us to release our ideas of how life is, or ought to be. That, in this Divine Play, what is down may be up, and vice versa, as young Krishna made real and taught through mischievousness. What seems bad may actually be a great service beyond human comprehension, the spark of a necessary transformation whose time has come. Indeed, setting righteousness and our attachments to dualistic thinking aside, we cannot possibly know in this Dance of Dark and Light what is best for another, what each soul has come to experience; what is justified and ordained in the Higher Order of Life.
Turning to the life of Joan of Arc, patron saint of France, can help take this detached, open view more to heart. An advanced soul with a clear mission, at age 13 she was guided by the Warrior Spirit of Archangel Michael to fulfill her dharma to lead France into battle with the invading British. At the young age 17, she did just this, a Warrior Spirit herself bravely winning key battles, most famously the siege of Orléans, and helping France retain national sovereignty.
Like Krishna, Mary Magdalene and other advanced beings, Joan of Arc incarnated with a grand, noble mission to bring greater balance between dark and light, end patterns of adharma (destruction, evil), and help souls live with freedom and dignity. Like Warrior Arjuna, she had a sacred duty to fulfil on the battlefield, in which destruction and death was destined to ensue, just as they are destined in the fields of Mother Nature.
Confronting darkness and death, as initiates did in ancient mystery schools, is how souls are initiated into transcending both. By charging into battlefields and risking it all, the door opens to lose all fear; to release attachments to people and things, ideas of life; to who they think they are, and their body. This was one of Krishna’s most important teachings to Arjuna, one we see radiantly embodied in the Lord of Yoga since birth. Retaining a glowing countenance throughout his adversities is the sign of one who has no fear of death, and lives in complete union with eternal Brahman, with the deathless. Krishna was transcendent of the story of duality and suffering that is maya, of good and evil, and, as such, could fully participate as one who liberates and brings new life, luminously and wisely inviting others into the Immortal Field of Oneness.
He who is rooted in oneness
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he goes, he remains in me.
When he sees all beings as equal
in suffering or in joy
because they are like himself,
that man has grown perfect in yoga.
Krishna was indeed sublimely divine; yet he was also a very warm-blooded, approachable human of the world in his finite form. Far from a Sannyasin, or ascetically-inclined renunciate, he lived joyously, opulently, amongst the people, rich and poor, in play and service, in the dance of dark and light. Further grounding him was his role as brother, husband and father. So the story goes, he had many wives — some say 8; or was it 16,108? A child at heart, it is no surprise that he had many children; again, with differences in opinion on the exact number.
All in all, Krishna was balanced in his divine embodiment; in family, community, love, war and peace; in the age-old interplay of destruction and creation, death and life. For this, he’s been loved and worshiped for thousands of years throughout the world.
Like all human stories, his eventually came to a close. At age 125, Krishna’s human form was brought to a breathless state by a hunter. It is believed that his final act was to bless this individual who accidentally killed him… or, who played his destined part, like Judas did with Jesus, in initiating the necessary transfiguration, the timely tossing of the Human Story into the Fire of Alchemy that awaits us all.
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As with Goddess Kali Ma, and other personifications of the Godhead, it is wise with Lord Krishna to juggle the conflicting, fantastical storylines; to hold them lightly and release them, which is the Wisdom of Play, of make-believe, of making beliefs up, tossing them high up in the air, remaining open to Truth in the space between ideas, in the spaciousness of our knowing hearts. I do not claim any or all is true in what I’ve written here about Krishna’s incarnation. But what I can share with certainty is that, like with your own human story, the story of Krishna is only of relative importance. It’s what the story points to, brings us to in our hearts and souls, that ultimately matters.
What is real is Krishna as a Cosmic Force, as Lord Vishnu, as the Divine Play, however you wish to call this multidimensional consciousness. He is the ever-abiding presence within us that is our True Nature as Absolute Truth, as Krishna Christ light. A presence that now comes in this sacred ceremony to dance wildly in your heart, mind and cells, and awaken your soul.
Just as he revealed Cosmic Consciousness to Arjuna, in this ceremony he serves to reveal you to the Cosmic Breath and Being You are. For you are the Kingdom of Stars, Planets, and Galaxies galore! You are the multiplicity of Rays, Sounds and Sacred Geometry that make up the creative intelligence that birthed and births life into ever-expanding Wonders. You are the Known and Unknown, the Seen and Unseen, the Multiverse in all its infinitude, its mysterious Crystalline Glory, entwined, as one.
This is your divine inheritance as a living, breathing hologram of Cosmic Consciousness. Of Krishna!
Via a direct transmission from Lord Krishna, he comes to activate your Cosmic Truth, this divine inheritance, into embodied realization, and to heal that which keeps you in its shadows. Working with your Higher Self, he’s here to blossom your lotus body and heart into a fuller flowering of your pure, innocent radiance; the unsullied, invincible, everlasting nature of your Holy Spirit, that is always, in all ways, You!
Krishna joyously celebrated the Cosmic Playground on Earth from childhood onwards, inviting others to dance in it with him. And in this ceremony, by merging with his Playful Consciousness, he invites you into a similar Rasa Dance, an attitude of lila, of playfulness that knows it’s safe to enjoy life, to bask in its endless wonders; to be a starry-eyed child again, ceaselessly curious and imaginative, creatively, and perhaps mischievously, engaged in life’s eternal moment of Now, in the Universes upon Universes that make up our Divine Playground.
Krishna wants you to know that the days of learning through limits and suffering are over. We are now transitioning into a Golden Age of Miracles, and it’s High Time we know how absolutely miraculous we are! That we need not wait another moment to realize and express our multidimensional beauty and power. For the world needs the Krishna in each of us. It needs it, us, to Come Out and Play!
Via the link below, you are encouraged to set healing empowerment intentions for anything you want. Please know that nothing is too much to ask from Lord Krishna. How could it be? Feel free to ask for support on any matters pertaining to your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing. Chronic conditions like psoriasis, back pain, insomnia, depression and low self-worth; historic conditions like sexual trauma, birth trauma and neglect; pains (fear, shame) that have kept your Inner Star Child in the shadows, unwilling to express its abundantly playful, daring, “I can do it!” Spirit — to name but a few examples — are all welcome in your intention setting. Indeed, Krishna is here for you, here to “slay” the “demons” and end the limiting stories, and initiate you into a Golden beginning!
Therefore, please ask for what you want, what you need from Lord Krishna. And trust him to know exactly how to serve your glorious journey of healing, empowerment and ascension — of Coming Out to Play!
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Ps.. if you’d like to play with a mantra to connect to and cultivate Krishna and Rama consciousness, here is the Maha or Great Mantra. While there are plenty of meanings for this mantra, you can simply understand it as celebrating and allowing yourself to be captivated by two of Lord Vishnu’s avatars, with Rama being the seventh and Krishna the eight.