{"id":113969,"date":"2025-02-01T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113969"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T11:31:29","slug":"why-devotion-surpasses-knowledge-and-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=113969","title":{"rendered":"Why Devotion Surpasses Knowledge and Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HH Yadunandana Swami Maharaja discusses \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam 3.5.47, emphasizing the superiority of devotional service over impersonal realization. He highlights the joy of bhakti, Krishna\u2019s care for devotees, and the importance of surrender. Through examples from scripture, he explains detachment, transcendental pleasure, and overcoming material suffering through sincere devotion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"972\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nLENZYlrrF8\" title=\"Topic: SB 3.5.47 SPEAKER:  HH YADUNANDANA SWAMI MAHARAJA DATE: 29.01.2025\" 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>HH Yadunandana Swami Maharaja discusses \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam 3.5.47, emphasizing the superiority of devotional service over impersonal realization. He highlights the joy of bhakti, Krishna\u2019s care for devotees, and the importance of surrender. Through examples from scripture, he explains detachment, transcendental pleasure, and overcoming material suffering through sincere devotion.<\/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-113969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113969","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=113969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113970,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113969\/revisions\/113970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}