{"id":3274,"date":"2019-02-23T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T03:49:00","slug":"how-should-a-devotee-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/how-should-a-devotee-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How should a devotee be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-364x182.png 364w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a very nice description of a Vaisnava<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">advesta sarva-bhutanam<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">maitrah karuna eva ca<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">nirmamo nirahankarah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">sama-duhkha-sukhah ksami<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">santustah satatam yogi<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">yatatma drdha-niscayah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">mayy arpita-mano-buddhir<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">yo mad-bhaktah sa me priyah<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">One who is not envious<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">but is a kind friend to all living entities,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">who does not think himself a proprietor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">and is free from false ego,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always satis\ufb01ed, self-controlled, and engaged in devotional service with determination, his mind and intelligence \ufb01xed on Me \u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">such a devotee of Mine is very dear to Me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Bhagavad-gita 12.13<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very nice description of a Vaisnava &nbsp; advesta sarva-bhutanam maitrah karuna eva ca nirmamo nirahankarah sama-duhkha-sukhah ksami santustah satatam yogi yatatma drdha-niscayah mayy arpita-mano-buddhir yo mad-bhaktah sa me priyah &nbsp; One who is &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/how-should-a-devotee-be\/\" aria-label=\"How should a devotee be?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 08:38:17","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\/3274","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}