{"id":31926,"date":"2018-08-14T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/151234270856"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:43:13","slug":"international-society-for-krishna-consciousness-iskcon-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31926","title":{"rendered":"Notes found in a handwritten diary kept by Srila Prabhupada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oef42g0Mg21sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oef42g0Mg21sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oef42g0Mg21sbj0vuo1_500-130x187.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).<br \/>\nBut what Is Krishna Consciousness?<br \/>\nThese are notes found in a handwritten diary kept by Srila Prabhupada, outlining how he intended to present the teachings of Krishna consciousness to the Western world.<br \/>\n1. Krishna consciousness means clear consciousness.<br \/>\n2. Material existence means hazy consciousness.<br \/>\n3. Identifying the body as self is hazy consciousness.<br \/>\n4. One has to understand himself first before making progress in Krishna consciousness.<br \/>\n5. Constitutional position of a living entity is being eternal servant of Krishna, or God.<br \/>\n6. God or Krishna means the Supreme Person and the supreme cause of all causes.<br \/>\n7. Forgetfulness of the eternal relationship to God, or Krishna, is the beginning of hazy consciousness.<br \/>\n8. To revive the original clear consciousness of the living entities, the Vedic literatures are there.<br \/>\n9. The Vedic literatures are as follows:<br \/>\na. The four Vedas.<br \/>\nb. The Upanishads &#8211; numbering at least 108.<br \/>\nc. The Vedanta philosophy.<br \/>\nd. The 18 Puranas.<br \/>\ne. The Ramayana (original Valmiki).<br \/>\nf. The Mahabharata.<br \/>\ng. And any book following the tenets.<br \/>\n10. The Bhagavad-gita is part of the Mahabharata.<br \/>\n11. The original Veda is Atharva-veda, later on divided into four for divisional understanding.<br \/>\n12. Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda and is meant for less intelligent class of men who love history more than philosophy.<br \/>\n13. Bhagavad-gita, being part of Mahabharata is the essence of all Vedic knowledge for less intelligent class of men in this Age.<br \/>\n14. B.G. is called the \u201cBible of the Hindus,\u201d but actually it is the Bible for the human race.<br \/>\n15. In the B.G. the following subject matter has been discussed:<br \/>\na. What is a living being.<br \/>\nb. He is not the body but spirit soul.<br \/>\nc. The spirit soul is encaged in material body.<br \/>\nd. The body is subjected to birth, death, old age, and diseases.<br \/>\ne. The spirit soul is eternal, never takes birth or dies but he exists even after the annihilation of the material body.<br \/>\nf. The living entity is transmigrating from one body to another.<br \/>\ng. He can however stop this transmigration process and attain eternal, blissful life of knowledge by Krishna consciousness.<br \/>\n16. What is God.<br \/>\na. God is individual person. He is chief of all other persons of different parts \u2014 namely the demigods, the human beings, animals and the birds, insects, trees, and aquatics.<br \/>\nb. All these living entities are sons of God, and therefore they are all servants of God.<br \/>\n(Reprinted from Back to Godhead Magazine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/6841d07e0a1e46b93a17ef04674fbfdb\/tumblr_oef42g0Mg21sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).<br \/>\nBut what Is Krishna Consciousness?<br \/>\nThese are notes found in a handwritten diary kept by Srila Prabhupada, outlining how he intended to present the teachings of Krishna consciousness to the Western world.<\/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-31926","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\/31926","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=31926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65344,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31926\/revisions\/65344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}