{"id":31146,"date":"2016-09-06T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/150033717531"},"modified":"2017-01-26T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:26:07","slug":"simple-daily-meditationshow-to-know-krishna-how-to-get-a-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31146","title":{"rendered":"Simple Daily Meditations\nHow to know Krishna? How to get a sense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_od3b52e7Wr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_od3b52e7Wr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_od3b52e7Wr1sbj0vuo1_500-150x187.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simple Daily Meditations<br \/>\nHow to know Krishna? How to get a sense of who He is, a feeling towards Him? How can we think about Him naturally throughout the day and not just while we battle with our mind during our chanting practice? In other words, can we meditate off the mat and into the day?<br \/>\nMeditation is mind work. For some it\u2019s emptying the mind of everything. For us it\u2019s filling the mind with thoughts of Krishna. Letting the mind drift to His side, lean into His space and rest there.<br \/>\nArjuna asked Krishna such a question \u2013 \u201cHow shall I constantly think of You, and how shall I know You? In what various forms are You to be remembered?\u201d In the Gita\u2019s beautiful poetic verses, Krishna invites us to breathe deep the extent of his presence everywhere and to let our minds connect with that. Simple, beautiful, daily meditations.<br \/>\nHere are my 12 favorites.<br \/>\nOf lights I am the radiant sun<br \/>\nAmong stars I am the moon<br \/>\nOf bodies of water I am the ocean<br \/>\nI am inexhaustible time<br \/>\nAmong beasts I am the lion<br \/>\nOf purifiers I am the wind<br \/>\nOf seasons I am flower-bearing spring<br \/>\nOf letters I am the letter A<br \/>\nOf the wise I am wisdom<br \/>\nOf the splendid I am the splendor<br \/>\nI am all devouring death and<br \/>\nI am the generating principle of all that is yet to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/90fd873aae528f165d77e2a5dff9a65a\/tumblr_od3b52e7Wr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Simple Daily Meditations<br \/>\nHow to know Krishna? How to get a sense of who He is, a feeling towards Him? How can we think about Him naturally throughout the day and not just while we battle with our mind during our chanting practice? In other words, can we meditate off the mat and into the day?<br \/>\nMeditation is mind work. For some it&rsquo;s emptying the mind of everything. For us it&rsquo;s filling the mind with thoughts of Krishna. Letting the mind drift to His side, lean into His space and rest there.<br \/>\nArjuna asked Krishna such a question &ndash; &ldquo;How shall I constantly think of You, and how shall I know You? In what various forms are You to be remembered?&rdquo; In the Gita&rsquo;s beautiful poetic verses, Krishna invites us to breathe deep the extent of his presence everywhere and to let our minds connect with that. Simple, beautiful, daily meditations.<br \/>\nHere are my 12 favorites.<br \/>\nOf lights I am the radiant sun<br \/>\nAmong stars I am the moon<br \/>\nOf bodies of water I am the ocean<br \/>\nI am inexhaustible time<br \/>\nAmong beasts I am the lion<br \/>\nOf purifiers I am the wind<br \/>\nOf seasons I am flower-bearing spring<br \/>\nOf letters I am the letter A<br \/>\nOf the wise I am wisdom<br \/>\nOf the splendid I am the splendor<br \/>\nI am all devouring death and<br \/>\nI am the generating principle of all that is yet to be.<\/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-31146","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\/31146","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=31146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37680,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31146\/revisions\/37680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}