{"id":81952,"date":"2020-01-24T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/190437728576"},"modified":"2020-01-24T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T10:33:18","slug":"a-lady-member-of-the-congregation-went-to-her-local-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=81952","title":{"rendered":"Just focus on Krishna!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/e5621447e6d0ccaabb2f985d4360874adedc34bc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e5621447e6d0ccaabb2f985d4360874adedc34bc.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e5621447e6d0ccaabb2f985d4360874adedc34bc-194x187.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lady, member of the congregation, went to her local Hare Krishna Temple president and said, I won\u2019t be attending the Temple anymore.<br \/>\nHe said, May I ask why??<br \/>\nShe said I see people on their cell phones during the services, some are gossiping, some just ain\u2019t living right, they are all just hypocrites\u2026<br \/>\nThe Temple president got silent, and he said, ok\u2026 But can I ask you to do something for me before you make your final decision?<br \/>\nShe said, sure, what\u2019s that?<br \/>\nHe said, take a glass of water and walk around the Temple 2 times and don\u2019t let any water fall out the glass.<br \/>\nShe said, yes I can do that!<br \/>\nShe came back and said it\u2019s done.<br \/>\nHe asked her 3 questions:<br \/>\n1. Did you see anybody on their phone?<br \/>\n2. Did you see anybody gossiping?<br \/>\n3. was anybody living wrong?<br \/>\nShe said, I didn\u2019t see anything because I was so focused on this glass, so the water wouldn\u2019t fall.<br \/>\nHe told her, when you come to Temple, you should be just that much focused on Krishna so that you don\u2019t fall.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let your relationship with Lord Krishna be determined by how others relate with Him. Let it be determined by how focused *you* are on Him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/5193323c716da7542a1a2a4f8f52a0a2\/c75cde847899dfea-77\/s500x750\/e5621447e6d0ccaabb2f985d4360874adedc34bc.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A lady, member of the congregation, went to her local Hare Krishna Temple president and said, I won&rsquo;t be attending the Temple anymore.<br \/>\nHe said, May I ask why??<br \/>\nShe said I see people on their cell phones during the services, some are gossiping, some just ain&rsquo;t living right, they are all just hypocrites&hellip;<br \/>\nThe Temple president got silent, and he said, ok&hellip; But can I ask you to do something for me before you make your final decision?<\/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-81952","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\/81952","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=81952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81954,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81952\/revisions\/81954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}