SELF-LOVE IN BHAKTI: Learning to Relate to Ourselves (part 2) - May 4th, 2024

“Of all types of knowledge, I am knowledge of the soul. I am fully present in those moments when you grasp completely who you are, with all of that’s implications,” Krishna explains in the Gita. Self-love is one of those implications of knowing what the soul is.

In this 2nd of a 3-part series on self-love in bhakti, Swami Padmanabha grounds our sense of self in the foundational knowledge of the self, the truth of the soul, atma-tattva, which Krishna can say is no less than “Amazing…amazing…amazing.” And he loves that amazingness.

This series digs deep to the foundational truths upon which our bhakti temple is built. If our foundation is skewed, whatever is built upon it will be increasingly off balance, and eventually, the structure will collapse. This is true with our conceptions, as well as buildings. If our foundation of bhakti contains a dysfunctional relationship with our own being, a misunderstanding of who we are, of how Krishna sees us, then every other step in our journey after that—how we relate to others, to the world, to Krishna—will also contain elements of that dysfunction.

Tune-in as we hear who we are in God’s eyes; how considering ourselves disconnected and separated is the source of all illusion; and how self-love is part of relating wholesomely to everything that is connected to the center of nondual reality—to the heart of god—so that means everything.

And still…. the inner voices of self-loathing come: I’m despicable, not enough, unlovable, stupid, ugly, unworthy, cursed…And it is this self-loathing, self-denial, self-rejection is the very opposite of reality, of God’s reality. For him, we are shockingly amazing.

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