{"id":42673,"date":"2017-02-05T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/156836122741"},"modified":"2017-02-05T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T08:40:30","slug":"increase-your-spiritual-appetitein-the-srimad-bhagavatam-kavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=42673","title":{"rendered":"Increase your spiritual appetite!\nIn the Srimad-bhagavatam, Kavi…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Increase your spiritual appetite!
\nIn the Srimad-bhagavatam, Kavi Yogendra (a great sage) compares the process of bhakti yoga to eating.
\nWhen a famished person eats a good meal, she feels satisfaction, nourishment, and her hunger lessens with each bite.
\nIn a similar way, says sage Kavi, those who worship Krsna through the process of bhakti get devotion, direct experience of the Supreme, and detachment from other things not related to Krsna.
\nIn his remarks about this verse, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, the great Srimad-bhagavatam commentator says:<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as a person who eats a little gets a little satisfaction, a little nourishment, and a little relief from hunger, so a person who worships the Lord a little with hearing and chanting, gets a little experience of the Lord, and a little detachment from material life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd just as a person who eats a lot gets full satisfaction, full nourishment and full relief from hunger, so a person who worships the Lord fully experiences the Lord fully and becomes completely detached from material life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visvanatha Cakravarti adds:<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it is impossible to eat food continuously, one can increase his worship of the Lord without limitation. That is the difference.\u201d (Sarartha Darsini Vol. 9, Pp. 31-32)<\/p>\n

To increase one\u2019s spiritual appetite, Suta Goswami says that one should serve great souls, because by rendering such service \u201cone gains an affinity for hearing about Krsna.\u201d (Bhag. 1.2.16)<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada explains Suta Goswami\u2019s statement thus: \u201cBy serving the servants of the Lord, one gradually gets the qualities of such servants, and thus one becomes qualified to hear the glories of the Lord.\u201d (Bhag. 1.2.16, purport, p. 112)<\/p>\n

According to scripture, the purpose of human life is to increase one\u2019s hunger for hearing about Krsna.<\/p>\n

Do something today to increase your spiritual appetite.
\nVaisesika Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Increase your spiritual appetite!
\nIn the Srimad-bhagavatam, Kavi Yogendra (a great sage) compares the process of bhakti yoga to eating.
\nWhen a famished person eats a good meal, she feels satisfaction, nourishment, and her hunger lessens with each bite.
\nIn a similar way, says sage Kavi, those who worship Krsna through the process of bhakti get devotion, direct experience of the Supreme, and detachment from other things not related to Krsna.
\nIn his remarks about this verse, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, the great Srimad-bhagavatam commentator says:<\/p>\n

“Just as a person who eats a little gets a little satisfaction, a little nourishment, and a little relief from hunger, so a person who worships the Lord a little with hearing and chanting, gets a little experience of the Lord, and a little detachment from material life.”<\/p>\n

“And just as a person who eats a lot gets full satisfaction, full nourishment and full relief from hunger, so a person who worships the Lord fully experiences the Lord fully and becomes completely detached from material life.”<\/p>\n

Visvanatha Cakravarti adds:<\/p>\n

“Although it is impossible to eat food continuously, one can increase his worship of the Lord without limitation. That is the difference.” (Sarartha Darsini Vol. 9, Pp. 31-32)<\/p>\n

To increase one’s spiritual appetite, Suta Goswami says that one should serve great souls, because by rendering such service “one gains an affinity for hearing about Krsna.” (Bhag. 1.2.16)<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada explains Suta Goswami’s statement thus: “By serving the servants of the Lord, one gradually gets the qualities of such servants, and thus one becomes qualified to hear the glories of the Lord.” (Bhag. 1.2.16, purport, p. 112)<\/p>\n

According to scripture, the purpose of human life is to increase one’s hunger for hearing about Krsna.<\/p>\n

Do something today to increase your spiritual appetite.
\nVaisesika Das<\/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-42673","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\/42673","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=42673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42674,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42673\/revisions\/42674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}