{"id":37940,"date":"2020-02-13T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=37940"},"modified":"2022-02-13T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:36:41","slug":"the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-3-pleasing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-3-pleasing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE &#8211; 3.\u2009\u2009PLEASING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4.\u2009\u2009EFFULGENT<br \/>\nThe effulgence pervading the universe is considered to be the rays of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The supreme abode of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is always throwing off the effulgence known as brahma-jyotir, and that effulgence is emanating from His body.<br \/>\nThe luster of the hosts of jewels fixed on the chest of the Lord can defeat even the luster of the sun, and still, when compared with the bodily luster of the Lord, that crest of jewels appears to be only as bright as one of the stars in the sky. Therefore the transcendental influence of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is so great that it can defeat anyone. When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was present in the sacrificial arena of His enemy King Ka\u1e41sa, the wrestlers present, although appreciating the softness of the body of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, were afraid and perturbed when they thought of engaging with Him in battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.\u2009\u2009EFFULGENT The effulgence pervading the universe is considered to be the rays of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The supreme abode of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is always throwing off the effulgence known as brahma-jyotir, and that effulgence is &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-3-pleasing-2\/\" aria-label=\"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE &#8211; 3.\u2009\u2009PLEASING\">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-37940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 05:45:35","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\/37940","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=37940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}