{"id":79148,"date":"2022-10-31T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/188318705486"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:16:55","slug":"deity-worship-by-vaishnavis-srila-prabhupadas-letter-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=79148","title":{"rendered":"Srila Prabhupada on Deity worship by Vaishnavis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pzbanzDarh1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pzbanzDarh1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pzbanzDarh1sbj0vuo1_500-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deity worship by Vaishnavis.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada\u2019s letter to Amsu das on 13 August 1974:<br \/>\n\u201cRegarding the worship of our Gaura Nitai by women pujaris, we worship Lord Chaitanya in His householder life when He was with His wife, and not as a sannyasi. So, it is alright for women to do this service. But, besides this, service is spiritual and there can be no material designation. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated by Lord Krsna: striyo vaisyas tatha sudras te\u2019pi yanti param gatim. The principle is that everyone who is properly initiated and following the rules and regulations can worship. This activity cannot [be] on the material platform.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e03d488d1269693cf2f9ed81e02d2ee2\/tumblr_pzbanzDarh1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Deity worship by Vaishnavis.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada&rsquo;s letter to Amsu das on 13 August 1974:<br \/>\n&ldquo;Regarding the worship of our Gaura Nitai by women pujaris, we worship Lord Chaitanya in His householder life when He was with His wife, and not as a sannyasi. So, it is alright for women to do this service. But, besides this, service is spiritual and there can be no material designation. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated by Lord Krsna: striyo vaisyas tatha sudras te&rsquo;pi yanti param gatim. The principle is that everyone who is properly initiated and following the rules and regulations can worship. This activity cannot [be] on the material platform.&ldquo;<\/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-79148","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\/79148","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=79148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79150,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79148\/revisions\/79150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}