{"id":66068,"date":"2020-08-26T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=66068"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:44:14","slug":"the-many-reasons-why-you-should-love-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=66068","title":{"rendered":"The many reasons why you should love Krishna (and Radha)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-7Rmhlap9PLY\/W47XFCUfBSI\/AAAAAAAAmfM\/mf6wQDbb6JIH8YQUG4Ey72FMgchV4q9iwCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-04_21-03-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"myDiv\"><em><strong><\/p>\n<h3><center>Please allow a few seconds for the player to load.<br \/>\nIt will appear here \u2193<\/center><\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p><iframe width='100%' height='400px' frameborder='no' scrolling='no' src='http:\/\/www.mayapur.tv\/iframe\/dandavats\/dandavatstest\/index.php?stream=London\/London**London\/HG%20Rupavilas%20Prabhu_Janmastami%20-%20Evening%20Clas__20180903173357.mp4'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Greatest Friend of Everyone<\/p>\n<p>Birbal, the favourite minister of Emperor Akbar, was an uncommon man of sound common sense. Many were the scintillating conversations the two had together; time seemed to fly when Akbar was in his company.<\/p>\n<p>One day Akbar said to Birbal, \u201cI marvel at some of the fantastic beliefs that you Hindus hold. You believe that the Lord comes to this earth in the garb of a human being \u2013 what an absurd notion this is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is so absurd about it, sire?\u201d asked Birbal. \u201cThe Creator of the cosmos is also the Father of us all. Is it so fantastic that the Father should come down to earth to save His children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it is fantastic and absurd,\u201d Akbar insisted. \u201cWhy should the Creator of the cosmos soil His Divine Form and plunge into the samsara- sagara &#8211; the ocean of material existence?\u201d Birbal made no reply.<\/p>\n<p>A few days passed. Akbar and Birbal were taking a leisurely stroll along the banks of the Yamuna. A pleasure boat was sailing on the river; the Emperor\u2019s infant-son sat on the knees of his nurse, and was enjoying this leisurely boat ride. When the nurse saw Akbar and Birbal on the bank of the river, she was so startled that she tried to stand up in the boat and the child on her knees fell into the river!<\/p>\n<p>Emperor Akbar was astounded! Without a moment\u2019s hesitation, he plunged into the cold waters of the river to save his son. Swimming fast, he reached the floating child &#8211; only to realize that it was but a doll that had been thrown into the waters!<\/p>\n<p>Birbal swam after the king to meet him mid-river. \u201cEven as an earthly father, sire, you plunged into the waters and did not in the least bother about your royal robes getting soiled and wet.\u201d he said to Akbar. \u201cDoes our Heavenly Father not love us a million times more than we love our children? Would He not plunge into the murky waters of the samsara-sagara to save His children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Emperor made no attempt to answer his Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, people in general doubt whether God, Himself, personally comes to save His loving devotees when they are apparently in trouble &#8211; is it just fiction created by some age-old authors or poets?<\/p>\n<p>Srila Prabhupada instructs that the Lord is very kind to the living entities because they are His sons. Lord Krishna declares in the Bhagavad-gita, sarva-yonisu\u2026 aham bija-pradah pita: \u201cI am the father of all.\u201d Of course there are all types of living entities according to their various karmas, but here the Lord claims that He is the father of all of them. Therefore the Lord descends to reclaim all of these fallen conditioned souls, to call them back to the sanatana eternal sky so that the sanatana living entities may regain their eternal sanatana positions in eternal association with the Lord. The Lord comes Himself in different incarnations, or He sends His confidential servants as His sons, associates or acaryas to reclaim the conditioned souls. Therefore, He is the greatest well-wishing friend of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Lord comes to teach in so many forms, no one can say that there is no God.<\/p>\n<p>Srila Prabhupada further teaches us that when a devotee receives initiation from his spiritual master, he is freed from his karmic reactions. Pains and pleasures that may appear to be like continuing karmic reactions are merely the residual effects of nondevotional activities, like the last revolutions of an electric fan after it\u2019s been unplugged. However, everything depends on the sincere execution of devotional service. One who again regularly transgresses the laws of God, even after taking the vows of initiation, is once more subject to the merciless dealings of the material nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-RI9gnxLKTdk\/W47Xb5AVIYI\/AAAAAAAAmfU\/dxWW9hsN2902gWM6_zh1ev9yhU9Ynof_QCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-04_21-05-12.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> A recent class of Rupa Vilas prabhu in the temple of Soho street, London, nicely analyzing the so many attractive qualities, activities and behaviors of Lord Krishna. The Lord is making so many arrangements to come towards us but unfortunately we are so busy trying to enjoy the matter.. He is coming personally in so many forms and expansions to attract us back home, back to Godhead and rescue us from the pains but we have so many excuses&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068","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=66068"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88709,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66068\/revisions\/88709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}