{"id":37731,"date":"2020-02-12T02:39:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=37731"},"modified":"2022-02-12T02:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T07:39:51","slug":"the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-nine-drinking-cara%e1%b9%87am%e1%b9%9bta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-nine-drinking-cara%e1%b9%87am%e1%b9%9bta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER NINE &#8211; DRINKING CARA\u1e46\u0100M\u1e5aTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRINKING CARA\u1e46\u0100M\u1e5aTA<br \/>\nCara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta is obtained in the morning while the Lord is being washed before dressing. Scented with perfumes and flowers, the water comes gliding down through His lotus feet and is collected and mixed with yogurt. In this way this cara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta not only becomes very tastefully flavored, but also has tremendous spiritual value.<br \/>\nAs described in the Padma Pur\u0101\u1e47a, even a person who has never been able to give in charity, who has never been able to perform a great sacrifice, who has never been able to study the Vedas, who has never been able to worship the Lord \u2013 or, in other words, even one who has never done any pious activities \u2013 will become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God if he simply drinks the cara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta that is kept in the temple. In the temple it is the custom that the cara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta be kept in a big pot. The devotees who come to visit and offer respects to the Deity take three drops of cara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta very submissively and feel themselves happy in transcendental bliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRINKING CARA\u1e46\u0100M\u1e5aTA Cara\u1e47\u0101m\u1e5bta is obtained in the morning while the Lord is being washed before dressing. Scented with perfumes and flowers, the water comes gliding down through His lotus feet and is collected and mixed with &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-nine-drinking-cara%e1%b9%87am%e1%b9%9bta\/\" aria-label=\"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER NINE &#8211; DRINKING CARA\u1e46\u0100M\u1e5aTA\">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-37731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 18:40:43","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\/37731","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=37731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}