{"id":113801,"date":"2025-01-25T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113801"},"modified":"2025-01-25T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:02:46","slug":"when-the-lord-cheats-balis-divine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113801","title":{"rendered":"When the Lord Cheats: Bali\u2019s Divine Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HG Aniruddha Prabhu discusses \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam 8.22.1-2, focusing on Bali Mah\u0101r\u0101ja\u2019s unwavering devotion despite being &#8220;cheated&#8221; by Lord V\u0101manadeva. Bali\u2019s humility, surrender, and trust in the Lord\u2019s divine plan are highlighted. The talk explores themes of pretense, divine reciprocation, and the devotee\u2019s ability to see Krishna\u2019s hand even in challenges, emphasizing truthfulness and introspection.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1108\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJGGXL2kAq8\" title=\"Morning Class SB 8.22.1-2 - HG Aniruddha Prabhu - 25 January 2025\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HG Aniruddha Prabhu discusses \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam 8.22.1-2, focusing on Bali Mah\u0101r\u0101ja\u2019s unwavering devotion despite being &#8220;cheated&#8221; by Lord V\u0101manadeva. Bali\u2019s humility, surrender, and trust in the Lord\u2019s divine plan are highlighted. The talk explores themes of pretense, divine reciprocation, and the devotee\u2019s ability to see Krishna\u2019s hand even in challenges, emphasizing truthfulness and introspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113802,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113801\/revisions\/113802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}