{"id":67689,"date":"2023-01-29T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/179201773041"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:54:03","slug":"balancing-material-and-spiritual-life-b-b-govinda-swami-3-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=67689","title":{"rendered":"Balancing material and spiritual life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/1bc120bd7ea2433e55986451b4af195c\/tumblr_pgtx8fGFWF1sbj0vuo1_500.png\" width=\"100%\" ><\/p>\n<p>Balancing material and spiritual life &#8211; B.B Govinda Swami (3 min video)<br \/>\nKing Pariksit continued: \u201cThe ability to talk can be perfected only by describing the transcendental qualities of the Lord. The ability to work with one\u2019s hands can be successful only when one engages himself in the service of the Lord with those hands. Similarly, one\u2019s mind can be peaceful only when one simply thinks of Krsna in full Krsna consciousness. This does not mean that one has to have very great thinking power: one has to understand simply that Krsna, the Absolute Truth, is all-pervasive by His localized aspect of Paramatma. If one can simply think that Krsna, as Paramatma, is everywhere, even within the atom, then one can perfect the thinking, feeling and willing functions of his mind. The perfect devotee does not see the material world as it appears to material eyes, for he sees everywhere the presence of his worshipable Lord in His Paramatma feature.\u201d<br \/>\nWatch it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/iGY5XD\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/iGY5XD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Balancing material and spiritual life - B.B Govinda Swami\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ZZiDhSIxdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/1bc120bd7ea2433e55986451b4af195c\/tumblr_pgtx8fGFWF1sbj0vuo1_500.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Balancing material and spiritual life &#8211; B.B Govinda Swami (3 min video)<br \/>\nKing Pariksit continued: &ldquo;The ability to talk can be perfected only by describing the transcendental qualities of the Lord. The ability to work with one&rsquo;s hands can be successful only when one engages himself in the service of the Lord with those hands. Similarly, one&rsquo;s mind can be peaceful only when one simply thinks of Krsna in full Krsna consciousness. This does not mean that one has to have very great thinking power: one has to understand simply that Krsna, the Absolute Truth, is all-pervasive by His localized aspect of Paramatma. If one can simply think that Krsna, as Paramatma, is everywhere, even within the atom, then one can perfect the thinking, feeling and willing functions of his mind. The perfect devotee does not see the material world as it appears to material eyes, for he sees everywhere the presence of his worshipable Lord in His Paramatma feature.&rdquo;<\/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-67689","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\/67689","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=67689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105802,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67689\/revisions\/105802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}