{"id":37191,"date":"2026-01-12T01:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=37191"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:26:08","slug":"a-black-snake-in-radharanis-hairs-question-and-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/a-black-snake-in-radharanis-hairs-question-and-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"A black snake in Radharani\u2019s hairs: question and answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Is it okay to think like this? If I see a snake, I can think of this story and of the Goswami&#8217;s and our Guru Parampara, and Sri Sri Radha Krishna?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">If seeing a snake causes you a sense of fear or disgust, linking that feeling to Srimati Radharani is not beneficial because it generates an inappropriate superimposition of rasa (rasa-abhasa). If, on the other hand, that vision is indifferent to you, it is good to associate anything with something spiritual, such as Srimati Radharani, the great Acarya or Sri Vrindavana Dhama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This is a question related to a section of the book \u201cVrindavana Lila\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/vrindavana-lila-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it okay to think like this? If I see a snake, I can think of this story and of the Goswami&#8217;s and our Guru Parampara, and Sri Sri Radha Krishna? &nbsp; Answer If seeing &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/a-black-snake-in-radharanis-hairs-question-and-answer\/\" aria-label=\"A black snake in Radharani\u2019s hairs: question and answer\">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":[3,156,189,194],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-37191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-db","category-kadacha-eng","category-nb","tag-vrindavana-lila-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 20:14:14","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\/37191","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=37191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}