{"id":43641,"date":"2017-03-06T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/158060681941"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:26:15","slug":"nationalism-is-also-enviousnessgiriraj-swami-today-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=43641","title":{"rendered":"Nationalism is also enviousness!\nGiriraj Swami: Today, listening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_omdwrrgj1Q1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_omdwrrgj1Q1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_omdwrrgj1Q1sbj0vuo1_500-280x182.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nationalism is also enviousness!<br \/>\nGiriraj Swami: Today, listening to Srila Prabhupada\u2019s talks in Juhu, I heard something that struck me as especially timely and relevant. \u201cKrishna says advesta sarva-bhutanam: You should not be envious to any living entity. But the present civilization means to become envious. I do not wish to criticize anyone, but this enviousness is the basis \u2026 Nationalism is also enviousness. \u2018Why foreigners will come here?\u2019 This is enviousness. Why should they not come? Who is foreigner and who is national? Everyone is son of God. Why should you distinguish? But because there is no Krishna consciousness, this discrimination between man and man, man and animal\u2014so many discriminations. Even from the national point of view, \u2018national\u2019 means anyone who is born in that country. But because one happens to be an animal, although he is a national, still, he is sent to the slaughterhouse\u2014because there is no Krishna consciousness.\u201d<br \/>\nThe philosophy of Krishna consciousness is timeless\u2014always timely and relevant. And, now perhaps more than ever, much needed.<br \/>\nHare Krishna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/64717c319a2c4dd72ae92b9c9c130f21\/tumblr_omdwrrgj1Q1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Nationalism is also enviousness!<br \/>\nGiriraj Swami: Today, listening to Srila Prabhupada&rsquo;s talks in Juhu, I heard something that struck me as especially timely and relevant. &ldquo;Krishna says advesta sarva-bhutanam: You should not be envious to any living entity. But the present civilization means to become envious. I do not wish to criticize anyone, but this enviousness is the basis &hellip; Nationalism is also enviousness. &lsquo;Why foreigners will come here?&rsquo; This is enviousness. Why should they not come? Who is foreigner and who is national? Everyone is son of God. Why should you distinguish? But because there is no Krishna consciousness, this discrimination between man and man, man and animal&mdash;so many discriminations. Even from the national point of view, &lsquo;national&rsquo; means anyone who is born in that country. But because one happens to be an animal, although he is a national, still, he is sent to the slaughterhouse&mdash;because there is no Krishna consciousness.&rdquo;<br \/>\nThe philosophy of Krishna consciousness is timeless&mdash;always timely and relevant. And, now perhaps more than ever, much needed.<br \/>\nHare Krishna.<\/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-43641","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\/43641","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=43641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43642,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43641\/revisions\/43642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}