{"id":114077,"date":"2025-02-06T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=114077"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:10:33","slug":"bhakti-vs-illusion-finding-lasting-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=114077","title":{"rendered":"Bhakti vs. Illusion: Finding Lasting Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HH Devamrita Swami discusses how both daydreams and night dreams keep us trapped in illusion, shaped by societal pressures. Bhakti yoga offers a path beyond this fantasy, using the temporary body to achieve eternal truth. True success isn&#8217;t material but spiritual. He emphasizes discipline, self-awareness, and transcendental knowledge to overcome worldly distractions and find real happiness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1108\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NS51O5GPO0w\" title=\"Bhakti Balancing in the World of Fantasy | HH Devamrita Swami Maharaj | Gopinath&#39;s Youth\" 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 Devamrita Swami discusses how both daydreams and night dreams keep us trapped in illusion, shaped by societal pressures. Bhakti yoga offers a path beyond this fantasy, using the temporary body to achieve eternal truth. True success isn&#8217;t material but spiritual. He emphasizes discipline, self-awareness, and transcendental knowledge to overcome worldly distractions and find real<\/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-114077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114077","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=114077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114078,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114077\/revisions\/114078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}