{"id":73184,"date":"2022-09-10T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/183721644101"},"modified":"2022-09-10T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T11:10:43","slug":"the-test-of-advancement-you-are-jolly-srila-prabhupada-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=73184","title":{"rendered":"The test of advancement: you are jolly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_poz641HT8V1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_poz641HT8V1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_poz641HT8V1sbj0vuo1_500-271x187.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The test of advancement: you are jolly.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada: That is the test. How you are advancing in chanting will be<br \/>\ntested how far you are free from material anxieties. That\u2019s<br \/>\nall. Then real life begins.<br \/>\nAs long as you are perturbed by material disturbances, you<br \/>\nshould know that your spiritual life has not begun. This is<br \/>\nconfirmed everywhere.<br \/>\nIf you are actually brahman-realized, the symptom will be<br \/>\nthat you are always joyful, no anxiety.<br \/>\nWhen you forget Krishna, or God, and think there is<br \/>\nsomething else than Krishna, then you are afraid. And those who are convinced and realized that there is nothing but Krishna, have no cause for fearfulness.<br \/>\nFrom a lecture by Srila Prabhupada in Hamburg,<br \/>\nGermany, Aug. 27, 1969<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-height:0px;max-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XbvnFo8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/6d8b4f1ee3f04963502778d76252dcc1\/tumblr_poz641HT8V1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSrila Prabhupada: That is the test. How you are advancing in chanting will be tested how far you are free from material anxieties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-73184","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\/73184","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=73184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91071,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73184\/revisions\/91071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}