{"id":5262,"date":"2008-02-08T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2008-02-08T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T09:41:09","slug":"butterfly-and-govardhana-mustard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly and Govardhana Mustard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mustard_and_Butterfly_1024x768.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bhurijana dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hare Krsna. What deeds enacted in previous lives cause one to inhabit a butterfly body alighting upon a blossoming mustard plant in Vraja, near Govardhana Hill? Where will this soul go after his butterfly body returns to Vraja&#8217;s dust?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot say, but one purport and one lecture of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s indicate two deep lessons we can learn from a butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>From a purport to the Bhagavad-gita: &#8220;One example often given is that of the caterpillar that thinks of becoming a butterfly and so is transformed into a butterfly in the same life. Similarly, if we constantly think of Krsna, it is certain that at the end of our lives we shall have the same bodily constitution as Krsna.&#8221; (Purport to Bg 8.8)<\/p>\n<p>You see a butterfly,<br \/>\nhow it is nicely painted.<br \/>\nYou just see duplicate<br \/>\nin both the wings.<br \/>\nJust like an artist<br \/>\npaint nicely,<br \/>\nit is painted.<br \/>\nSo we think<br \/>\nit is coming<br \/>\nout of nothing.<br \/>\nThis is our foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>Here is,<br \/>\nthat it is coming<br \/>\nout of the jnana-shakti.<br \/>\nBut His jnana<br \/>\nis so wide<br \/>\nthat simply<br \/>\nby His desire,<br \/>\nsimply by His will,<br \/>\nit can be executed.<\/p>\n<p>These are the things<br \/>\nto be studied.<br \/>\nBecause we cannot see<br \/>\nsomething before our eyes,<br \/>\nthat does not mean<br \/>\nthere is no existence.<\/p>\n<p>There is existence,<br \/>\nbut we do not know<br \/>\nhow one is working,<br \/>\nhow one is working.<\/p>\n<p>(From a lecture by Srila Prabhupada, New York, December 16, 1966)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mustsx768.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Bhurijana dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> What deeds enacted in previous lives cause one to inhabit a butterfly body alighting upon a blossoming mustard plant in Vraja, near Govardhana Hill?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhurijana-dasa","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}