{"id":38076,"date":"2020-02-14T10:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=38076"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:27:36","slug":"the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-27-self-satisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-27-self-satisfied\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE &#8211; 27.\u2009\u2009SELF-SATISFIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>27.\u2009\u2009SELF-SATISFIED<\/p>\n<p>A person who is fully satisfied in himself, without any hankering, and who is not agitated even in the presence of serious cause for distress, is called self-satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>An example of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s self-satisfaction was exhibited when He, Arjuna and Bh\u012bma went to challenge Jar\u0101sandha, the formidable king of Magadha, and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a gave all credit to Bh\u012bma for the killing of Jar\u0101sandha. From this we can understand that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a never cares at all for fame, although no one can be more famous.<\/p>\n<p>An example of His not being disturbed was shown when \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la began to call Him ill names. All the kings and br\u0101hma\u1e47as assembled at the sacrificial arena of Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira became perturbed and immediately wanted to satisfy K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a by offering nice prayers. But all these kings and br\u0101hma\u1e47as could not discover any disturbance in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27.\u2009\u2009SELF-SATISFIED A person who is fully satisfied in himself, without any hankering, and who is not agitated even in the presence of serious cause for distress, is called self-satisfied. An example of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s self-satisfaction was exhibited &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-nectar-of-devotion-chapter-twenty-one-27-self-satisfied\/\" aria-label=\"The Nectar of Devotion &#8211; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE &#8211; 27.\u2009\u2009SELF-SATISFIED\">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-38076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:00:57","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\/38076","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=38076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}