{"id":19507,"date":"2020-10-02T20:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=19507"},"modified":"2020-09-29T01:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:43:19","slug":"why-is-poverty-helpful-for-a-devotees-execution-of-devotional-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/why-is-poverty-helpful-for-a-devotees-execution-of-devotional-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is poverty helpful for a devotee\u2019s execution of devotional service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Why is poverty helpful for a devotee\u2019s execution of devotional service? How does poverty help us renounce bad association?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">One should not consider poverty a distress. The Supreme Lord has said He shows His favor to those from whom He gradually takes all their wealth. At that time, all the impoverished\u2019s artificial friends will consider him distressed and reject him. Thus his bad association will automatically be removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(Sri Bhagavatarka Maricimala 15\/99)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">#Bhaktivinoda Thakura<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is poverty helpful for a devotee\u2019s execution of devotional service? How does poverty help us renounce bad association? One should not consider poverty a distress. The Supreme Lord has said He shows His favor to &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/why-is-poverty-helpful-for-a-devotees-execution-of-devotional-service\/\" aria-label=\"Why is poverty helpful for a devotee\u2019s execution of devotional service?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 22:37:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}