{"id":31921,"date":"2018-08-12T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/151233362526"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T12:28:11","slug":"meditating-on-krishna-in-athens-a-stay-in-the-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31921","title":{"rendered":"Meditating On Krishna In Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meditating On Krishna In Athens.
\nA stay in the capital city bore numinous insights about Krishna\u2019s creative potency.
\nTad Brennan writes in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
\n\u201cThe idea that the soul is the true locus of personhood, that its welfare is vastly more important than the body\u2019s welfare, that \u2026 it survives death, is judged for its actions and may be reincarnated, that the post-mortem fate of the soul provides reasons to embrace a life of earthly virtue\u2014for all of these Socratic commitments there is Presocratic precedent.\u201d
\nThere is a precedent for these Socratic commitments in the Bhagavad-gita, too. There Krishna explains that we are part of Him and will end our transmigration through various bodies when we function naturally in immediate service to Him. We each have a unique relationship with God, and when we properly follow Him, we develop love for Him. The ancient Greeks did not have the refined theology of the Vedic literature, but the citizens of Athens abided by its laws out of love for their city and its patroness, Athena, the virgin-warrior goddess of art, wisdom, and invention (the Greek word parthenos means \u201cvirgin\u201d).
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Meditating On Krishna In Athens.
\nA stay in the capital city bore numinous insights about Krishna’s creative potency.
\nTad Brennan writes in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
\n“The idea that the soul is the true locus of personhood, that its welfare is vastly more important than the body’s welfare, that … it survives death, is judged for its actions and may be reincarnated, that the post-mortem fate of the soul provides reasons to embrace a life of earthly virtue—for all of these Socratic commitments there is Presocratic precedent.”<\/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-31921","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\/31921","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=31921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65280,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921\/revisions\/65280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}