{"id":35051,"date":"2017-01-02T05:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=35051"},"modified":"2017-01-04T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T04:40:04","slug":"relief-from-material-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=35051","title":{"rendered":"Relief From Material Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People everywhere are working hard to avoid misery; but distress is not to be stopped by any material adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>All suffering comes from reactions to sinful activities, and people commit sinful activities only out of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>These sinful reactions are described in scripture as occurring in various stages: the seed stage, the sprouting stage, and the fully ripe stage. There are even subtle sinful reactions that have not yet reached the seed stage.<\/p>\n<p>These sinful reactions are unlimited and even after repeated lifetimes they are not diminished. The Jagannatha Astakam says that we face a \u201cshoreless ocean of sins.\u201d (JA, 8)<\/p>\n<p>Bhakti dries up this ocean of sins and situates one in perfect knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Rupa Goswami says therefore, that pure devotional service brings relief from all material distress and he encourages us to take it up.<br \/>\nVaisesika das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaisesika das: People everywhere are working hard to avoid misery; but distress is not to be stopped by any material adjustment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35051","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35053,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35051\/revisions\/35053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}