{"id":37662,"date":"2020-02-12T02:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=37662"},"modified":"2022-02-12T02:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T07:16:49","slug":"the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-seven-serving-the-spiritual-master-with-faith-and-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-seven-serving-the-spiritual-master-with-faith-and-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER SEVEN &#8211; SERVING THE SPIRITUAL MASTER WITH FAITH AND CONFIDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SERVING THE SPIRITUAL MASTER WITH FAITH AND CONFIDENCE<br \/>\nRegarding accepting initiation from the spiritual master, in the Eleventh Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, seventeenth chapter, verse 27, it is stated by Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a,<br \/>\n\u201cMy dear Uddhava, the spiritual master must be accepted not only as My representative, but as My very self. He must never be considered on the same level with an ordinary human being. One should never be envious of the spiritual master, as one may be envious of an ordinary man. The spiritual master should always be seen as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and by serving the spiritual master one is able to serve all the demigods.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERVING THE SPIRITUAL MASTER WITH FAITH AND CONFIDENCE Regarding accepting initiation from the spiritual master, in the Eleventh Canto of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, seventeenth chapter, verse 27, it is stated by Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, \u201cMy dear Uddhava, the spiritual &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-seven-serving-the-spiritual-master-with-faith-and-confidence\/\" aria-label=\"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER SEVEN &#8211; SERVING THE SPIRITUAL MASTER WITH FAITH AND CONFIDENCE\">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-37662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 09:45:36","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\/37662","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=37662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}