{"id":68522,"date":"2020-07-31T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=68522"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:44:22","slug":"grandmas-home-remedies-active-meditations-to-help-me-deal-with-the-nitty-gritty-challenges-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=68522","title":{"rendered":"Grandma&#8217;s Home Remedies: Active Meditations to Help Me Deal with the Nitty-gritty Challenges of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ADvPA0csObs\/W-ux_jGlyhI\/AAAAAAAAnrs\/HP7TQIoC-Ncmz3jqA3xcToGtngyuwBmZACHMYCw\/s0\/2018-11-14_06-24-45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it \u2013 trying to become a devotee in this faithless, fast, and quarrelsome age is very, very tough. If the mind is not making life difficult for us, it will be the neighbors, some authority figure, our bodies or our family. Actually, the list is endless. How to keep faith and focus in a world so obviously made for distraction?!<\/p>\n<p>The real challenges come in our daily dealings in life. The philosophy sounds fine in the class atmosphere, but often we lose sight of it when dealing with the \u201cnitty-gritty\u201d practicalities of life. This often leads to a spiritual schizophrenia. We have one sense of identity when at the temple and a very different one when we are at home or at work. What to do?<\/p>\n<p>We would like to share with you a series of active meditations and strategies we have developed over many, many years of trying to become a sincere and serious follower of \u00c7r\u00e9la Prabhup\u00e4da. They\u2019ve helped us not only in dealing with life\u2019s challenges, but in surviving them! Of course, we are not claiming that they will solve all your problems \u2013 we all have our personalized Kuruk\u00f1etra battles to fight. But we are confident that they\u2019ll be of great help to you. Why not give a few of them a try? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adobe-dc-view\" style=\"width: 100%px;\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/documentcloud.adobe.com\/view-sdk\/main.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    document.addEventListener(\"adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready\", function () {\n        var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({\n            clientId: \"4af23780c75c4fd696414937c2bcd10c\",\n            divId: \"adobe-dc-view\"\n        });\n        adobeDCView.previewFile({\n            content: { location: { url: \"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/Grandmas_Home_Remedies.pdf\" } },\n            metaData: { fileName: \"Grandmas_Home_Remedies.pdf\" }\n        }, {\n            embedMode: \"IN_LINE\",\n            showDownloadPDF: true,\n            showPrintPDF: false\n        });\n    });\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!--[pdfviewer width=\"100%\" height=\"900px\" beta=\"true\"]http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/Grandmas_Home_Remedies.pdf[\/pdfviewer]<!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-3glfTHBXpf4\/W-uyeFhL9II\/AAAAAAAAnr0\/DCF9HgPeH_EUso0aF0fvl4nQhZm23SL8wCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-11-14_06-26-47.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Srimati Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Let\u2019s face it \u2013 trying to become a devotee in this faithless, fast, and quarrelsome age is very, very tough. If the mind is not making life difficult for us, it will be the neighbors, some authority figure, our bodies or our family. Actually, the list is endless. How to keep faith and focus in a world so obviously made for distraction?! The real challenges come in our daily dealings in life. The philosophy sounds fine in the class atmosphere, but often we lose sight of it when dealing with the \u201cnitty-gritty\u201d practicalities of life. This often leads to a spiritual schizophrenia. We have one sense of identity when at the temple and a very different one when we are at home or at work. 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