{"id":12086,"date":"2013-11-25T19:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12086"},"modified":"2013-11-25T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:46:35","slug":"if-spiritual-happiness-is-eternal-why-is-our-experience-of-that-happiness-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12086","title":{"rendered":"If spiritual happiness is eternal, why is our experience of that happiness temporary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Praveen Shanmugam<br \/>\nRedirecting to the original article&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/ajax-loader.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=http:\/\/www.thespiritualscientist.com\/2012\/11\/question-if-spiritual-happiness-is-eternal-why-are-our-experiences-of-that-happiness-temporary\/ '  >  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/312013-11-25-19-3531.jpg\"\/><strong>By Chaitanya Charan das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Let\u2019s use an analogy that is drawn from the Srimad Bhagavatam and elucidated by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his devotional classic Harinaam Chintamani. Krishna and the happiness in his devotional service are like the sun, whereas our material conditionings are like clouds that block the vision of the sun <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086","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=12086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}