{"id":39350,"date":"2024-12-30T01:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=39350"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T08:27:47","slug":"its-lila-that-counts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/its-lila-that-counts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s lila that counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">What&#8217;s in the books is the meditation on nama, rupa, guna, and lila. It\u2019s the lila that puts you into the Spiritual Goloka conciousness, for the lilas include nama, rupa and guna. As we chant the Guruvastakam every morning;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201dSri Radhika Madhavayorapara<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">madhurya lila guna rupa namnam&#8230;\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The Spiritual Master is always taking great pleasure in hearing and relishing the wonderful pastimes of Sri Sri Radhika Madhava and Their qualities names and forms. So the Guru is our acarya, teacher by example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">So we too must enter into this bhava, or mood because it\u2019s our Radha Syamakisora\u2019s most pleasing pastimes. As Srila Prabhupada says in the last pages of the chapter on the Rasa Dance&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cFor Their Pleasure\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/for-their-pleasure-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What&#8217;s in the books is the meditation on nama, rupa, guna, and lila. It\u2019s the lila that puts you into the Spiritual Goloka conciousness, for the lilas include nama, rupa and guna. As we chant &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/its-lila-that-counts-2\/\" aria-label=\"It&#8217;s lila that counts\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":38576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,156,189],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-39350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-db","category-kadacha-eng","tag-for-their-pleasure-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 02:16:30","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\/39350","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=39350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}