{"id":24278,"date":"2016-02-10T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/139039978141"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T09:09:57","slug":"february-10-iskcon-50-s-prabhupada-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=24278","title":{"rendered":"February 10. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o2bm5dRqYC1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o2bm5dRqYC1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o2bm5dRqYC1sbj0vuo1_500-232x187.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>February 10. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Prabhupada\u2019s Preferences.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada is a person. Like anyone, he likes his prasadam in a certain way and expressed his preferences about various things. We may wonder, are Prabhupada\u2019s preferences absolute? Does his expression of personal preferences make him a relative person?<br \/>\nThe pure devotee gives us so many details about Krishna and the process of devotional service. He tells us what Krishna likes to eat, and what He doesn\u2019t like to eat; he tells us how to behave under all circumstances, and how to think. The pure devotee spiritual master represents Krishna absolutely; therefore, do we have a right to look into the pure devotee\u2019s life and that everything be governed completely by Krishna\u2019s indications? If we can detect in his life any personal preference for doing something just because \u201cI like it,\u201d is that a defect in the pure devotee?<br \/>\nBut the pure devotee is a person. Like any person, he will have personal preferences. What we notice if we minutely examine the life of a pure devotee is that all of his preferences are favorable to devotional service. They are each individual expressions of his meditation on, and service to, Krishna. This may not always be comprehensible when we examine the pure devotee without the requisite faith.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=5\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/68052695f2bba8b014d7e5d479db01e5\/tumblr_o2bm5dRqYC1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>February 10. ISKCON 50 &ndash; S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Prabhupada&rsquo;s Preferences.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada is a person. Like anyone, he likes his prasadam in a certain way and expressed his preferences about various things. We may wonder, are Prabhupada&rsquo;s preferences absolute? Does his expression of personal preferences make him a relative person?<br \/>\nThe pure devotee gives us so many details about Krishna and the process of devotional service. He tells us what Krishna likes to eat, and what He doesn&rsquo;t like to eat; he tells us how to behave under all circumstances, and how to think. The pure devotee spiritual master represents Krishna absolutely; therefore, do we have a right to look into the pure devotee&rsquo;s life and that everything be governed completely by Krishna&rsquo;s indications? If we can detect in his life any personal preference for doing something just because &ldquo;I like it,&rdquo; is that a defect in the pure devotee?<br \/>\nBut the pure devotee is a person. Like any person, he will have personal preferences. What we notice if we minutely examine the life of a pure devotee is that all of his preferences are favorable to devotional service. They are each individual expressions of his meditation on, and service to, Krishna. This may not always be comprehensible when we examine the pure devotee without the requisite faith.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=5\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40866,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions\/40866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}