{"id":58727,"date":"2020-02-11T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/170725203756"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:29:48","slug":"krishna-is-not-an-optional-source-of-entertainment-he-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=58727","title":{"rendered":"Krishna is not an optional source of entertainment &#8211; He is the indispensable source of shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_p3y3rxBh5n1sbj0vuo1_500.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Krishna is not an optional source of entertainment &#8211; He is the indispensable source of shelter Gita 04.09 (4 min video)<br \/>\nMany people like to hear Krishna\u2019s pastimes as a pious form of entertainment. Even if they know vaguely that he is God, their interest in him is as a source of entertainment.<br \/>\nSignificantly, the Bhagavad-gita states that hearing about Krishna can do much more than entertain \u2013 it can elevate and liberate. Those who understand him in truth attain him, never to return to this distressful world (04.09). This implies that proper philosophical understanding of Krishna has the phenomenal purificatory potency to redirect our heart from the world to him.<br \/>\nWhat is this philosophical understanding? Understanding that Krishna is neither mythological nor just historical \u2013 he is the transcendental supreme person. He is the ultimate reality, the originator and sustainer of everything, the all-attractive source of the many things our heart hankers for. Only by knowing and loving him can we realize our spirituality and eternality. Absorption in him buffers us from the world\u2019s distresses. All these empowering insights, we miss when we approach him only for entertainment.<br \/>\nWon\u2019t hearing about Krishna, whatever our conception, purify us? Yes, but only minimally. Because purification is a function of intention; we won\u2019t get much purified if we don\u2019t want to, or don\u2019t even know why we need to get purified. And even that minimal purification is undone by our inconsistent hearing: whenever we stop finding his pastimes entertaining, we treat him as optional and look for entertainment elsewhere, often in characters who fill us with impurities such as lust, anger and greed.<br \/>\nTo appreciate that Krishna is our indispensable shelter, categorically different from any entertainment character, we need to understand his position philosophically. Thereafter, when we hear about his pastimes, they will elevate and liberate us, granting us access to a fulfillment that far supersedes the world\u2019s best entertainment.<br \/>\nWatch it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/YM5qA9\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/YM5qA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FChaitanyaCharana%2Fvideos%2F2164641367098139%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/807c5c2afa65a6ccec4cffecfa29b2a2\/tumblr_p3y3rxBh5n1sbj0vuo1_500.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Krishna is not an optional source of entertainment &#8211; he is the indispensable source of shelter Gita 04.09 (4 min video)<br \/>\nMany people like to hear Krishna&rsquo;s pastimes as a pious form of entertainment. Even if they know vaguely that he is God, their interest in him is as a source of entertainment.<br \/>\nSignificantly, the Bhagavad-gita states that hearing about Krishna can do much more than entertain &ndash; it can elevate and liberate. Those who understand him in truth attain him, never to return to this distressful world (04.09). This implies that proper philosophical understanding of Krishna has the phenomenal purificatory potency to redirect our heart from the world to him.<\/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":[152],"class_list":["post-58727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58727","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=58727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82523,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58727\/revisions\/82523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}