{"id":18237,"date":"2015-07-03T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:46:30","slug":"inking-with-the-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=18237","title":{"rendered":"Inking with the Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-YWy-xkD1IA4\/VZaCjti28UI\/AAAAAAAAQrY\/z3eoLAo3DU8\/s0\/2015-07-03_14-39-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:12px; color: #900e0e; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;\">From Back to Godhead<\/p>\n<p><!--[advanced_iframe securitykey=\"eecc28587071a557a4d7ab985109c85ec4091199\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/Inking.htm\" ] <!-- --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\njQuery(document).ready(function(){\n\tsetInterval( function() { AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight( 'auto-iframe', 50); }, 1000 );\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"auto-iframe\" name=\"auto-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/Inking.htm\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"onload=\"AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight('auto-iframe',50);\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-PinIhHh7zdk\/VZaCv6jp2sI\/AAAAAAAAQrg\/_BhGGzXCRZA\/s0\/2015-07-03_14-40-33.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Madhava Smullen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his 1885 essay Pancha Samskara: The Process of Initiation, he discusses the five purificatory processes from Prameya Ratnavali mentioned earlier in this article, two of which are tapa (defined by Baladeva Vidyabhushana as branding) and wearing tilaka markings.  Yes, he acknowledges them as prescribed ways to sanctify oneself so that one\u2019s true spiritual nature can develop. But far more forcefully, he condemns being concerned only with the external: \u201cTapa applies not only to the body, but also to the mind and the soul. If it is only physical, in the form of branding or stamping, then tapa has not actually taken place and religious practice becomes hypocritical.\u201d <!--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-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237","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=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18239,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions\/18239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}