{"id":86163,"date":"2020-06-02T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/619800251992293376"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:46:21","slug":"hg-prajapati-das-memories-of-srila-prabhupada-2-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86163","title":{"rendered":"HG Prajapati das &#8211; Memories of Srila Prabhupada (2 min. video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/136c85fadb74926e59d6ab802e1c25f77bb3c9ab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HG Prajapati das &#8211; Memories of Srila Prabhupada (2 min. video)<br \/>\nOn that first morning walk, Prabhupada asked us a question.  He said, \u201cWhat if the mind wanted the eyes to see?\u201d  It wasn\u2019t until years later that I understood that question.  We can\u2019t see without the help of the sun or some form of electricity &#8211; our eyes are completely dependent.  Inwardly also the light of consciousness and the Supersoul allow our eyes to see, and in that sense, we are totally dependent on Krishna.  Prabhupada was pointing out that everything that we take for granted, like vision, is totally dependent on Krishna.  We can\u2019t do anything independently.  Our disease, maya, exists not in the world around us but, as Prabhupada writes in the Prayers of Lord Brahma in the Krsna Book, \u201cThe existence of maya is only within the mind.  Maya is nothing but ignorance of Krishna\u2019s personality.  When on forgets His personality then that is the conditioned state of maya.  Therefore, one who is fixed upon Him both internally and externally is not illusioned.\u201d  Our vision is incorrect.  When we are Krishna conscious, we see everything as Krishna\u2019s energy.<br \/>\nWatch it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86153\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86153<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prajapati das - Memories of Srila Prabhupada\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7FllMYFgP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/c5406ac9c435c72ecdc85e704b25948f\/8cf5376262ada662-db\/s500x750\/136c85fadb74926e59d6ab802e1c25f77bb3c9ab.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>HG Prajapati das &#8211; Memories of Srila Prabhupada (2 min. video)<br \/>\nOn that first morning walk, Prabhupada asked us a question.  He said, &ldquo;What if the mind wanted the eyes to see?&rdquo;  It wasn&rsquo;t until years later that I understood that question.  We can&rsquo;t see without the help of the sun or some form of electricity &#8211; our eyes are completely dependent.  Inwardly also the light of consciousness and the Supersoul allow our eyes to see, and in that sense, we are totally dependent on Krishna.  Prabhupada was pointing out that everything that we take for granted, like vision, is totally dependent on Krishna.  We can&rsquo;t do anything independently.  Our disease, maya, exists not in the world around us but, as Prabhupada writes in the Prayers of Lord Brahma in the Krsna Book, &ldquo;The existence of maya is only within the mind.  Maya is nothing but ignorance of Krishna&rsquo;s personality.  When on forgets His personality then that is the conditioned state of maya.  Therefore, one who is fixed upon Him both internally and externally is not illusioned.&rdquo;  Our vision is incorrect.  When we are Krishna conscious, we see everything as Krishna&rsquo;s energy.<\/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-86163","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\/86163","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=86163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}