{"id":25318,"date":"2016-03-11T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/140850110001"},"modified":"2017-01-27T07:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T06:51:34","slug":"so-you-are-good-vaisnava-you-do-not-find-fault-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=25318","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSo you are good Vaisnava. You do not find fault with&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o3vg8uWWpa1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o3vg8uWWpa1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o3vg8uWWpa1sbj0vuo1_500-273x187.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you are good Vaisnava. You do not find fault with anyone.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSo in your letter you are not finding fault with anyone. So you are good Vaisnava. You do not find fault with anyone. This is the qualification. We should always think ourselves very humble and meek. This you must know.<\/p>\n<p>So we have to all cooperate amongst ourselves, otherwise what will people think if we ourselves fight with one another? A devotee is always ideal in behavior.\u201d<br \/>\n(Srila Prabhupada letter, December 12, 1974) <\/p>\n<p>Ayodhyadeva dasa: If with devotees we<br \/>\nbecome like flies<br \/>\nand feel the \u201cneed\u201d to criticize<br \/>\ntell outrageous lies<br \/>\ntheir \u201cfaults\u201d advertise<br \/>\nfalldowns publicize<br \/>\nor we heavily chastise<br \/>\ndislike or even despise<br \/>\nstigmatize<br \/>\ndemonize<br \/>\nscandalize<br \/>\nminimize<br \/>\npolarize<br \/>\nor want to terrorize<br \/>\nmaybe even ostracize<br \/>\nit may come as a surprise<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nthe wise<br \/>\nadvise<br \/>\nand emphasize<br \/>\nthat we have to realize<br \/>\nand recognize<br \/>\nthe need to apologize<br \/>\nwith tears in the eyes<br \/>\notherwise<br \/>\nas our enthusiasm dies<br \/>\nand our own problems arise<br \/>\nthis attitude will cause our demise,<br \/>\nthe boat we are on is going to capsize<br \/>\nour spiritual life we will surely jeopardize<br \/>\nanything we have achieved will vaporize<br \/>\nand thus we can wave our own bhakti bye byes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/c0444fdc8c9bb8636e6cb00f4eff46fb\/tumblr_o3vg8uWWpa1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So you are good Vaisnava. You do not find fault with anyone.&rdquo;<br \/>\n&ldquo;So in your letter you are not finding fault with anyone. So you are good Vaisnava. You do not find fault with anyone. This is the qualification. We should always think ourselves very humble and meek. This you must know.<\/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-25318","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\/25318","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=25318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40435,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25318\/revisions\/40435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}