{"id":55033,"date":"2024-05-22T03:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=55033"},"modified":"2024-05-21T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:04:08","slug":"watering-the-roots-of-a-tree-gives-energy-to-the-whole-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/watering-the-roots-of-a-tree-gives-energy-to-the-whole-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Watering the roots of a tree gives energy to the whole tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tavad bhayam dravina-deha suhrin-nimittam<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sokah sprha paribhavo vipulas ca lobhah<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tavan mamety asad-avagraha arti-mulam<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yavan na te &#8216;nghrim abhayam pravrnita lokah<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my Lord, the inhabitants of this world are beset with all sorts of material anxieties and live in fear all the time. They always strive to protect their bodies, their wealth and their relatives. I am always prey to complaints, to illicit desires; they are attached to undesirable objects and meanly base their exploits on the ephemeral concepts of &#8216;I&#8217; and &#8216;mine&#8217;. Oh Lord, until they take refuge in the safe shade of Your lotus feet they will always be haunted by these anxieties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krishna is the Lord of lords. Worshiping Him, all demigods are worshiped simultaneously. As stated in Srimad Bhagavatam (4.31.14):<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yatha taror-mula-nisecanena<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trpyanti tat-skandha-bhujopasakhah<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pranopaharac ca yathendryanam<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tathaiva sarvarhanam acyutejya<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watering the roots of a tree gives energy to the whole tree, the trunk, branches, leaves and everything else. By supplying food to the stomach, the senses and the various limbs of the body are strengthened. Similarly, the mere fact of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead with devotional service also automatically satisfies the demigods, who are His fragments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pure devotees do nothing but serve Krishna. In the Padma Purana it is written:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">harir eva sada radhyah<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sarva-devesvaresvarah<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itare brahma-rudradya<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">navajneyah kadacana<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krishna, Hari, is the master of all demigods, and therefore He is always the object of worship. This does not mean that one should not respect the demigods led by Brahma and Siva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This is a section of the book \u201cBhajana Rahasya\u201d, by Bhaktivinode Thakura &#8211; EN ENGLISH.<\/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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/bhajana-rahasya-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">click above<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Widget Shortcode --><div id=\"black-studio-tinymce-6\" class=\"widget-1 widget-first widget widget_black_studio_tinymce widget-shortcode area-arbitrary \"><h2 class=\"widgettitle\">KADACHA BookStore<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><pre style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 20px;color: #ff0000;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\" id=\"kadbtn30\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"kad-btn btn-shortcode kad-btn-primary lg-kad-btn \" style=\"background-color:#3a5744; border: 0 solid; border-color:#000;  color:#ffffff;\" onMouseOver=\"this.style.color=&#039;gold&#039;\" onMouseOut=\"this.style.color=&#039;#ffffff&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to VIEW! <i class=\"icon-cart2\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div><!-- \/Widget Shortcode -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 tavad bhayam dravina-deha suhrin-nimittam sokah sprha paribhavo vipulas ca lobhah tavan mamety asad-avagraha arti-mulam yavan na te &#8216;nghrim abhayam pravrnita lokah Oh my Lord, the inhabitants of this world are beset with all sorts of &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/watering-the-roots-of-a-tree-gives-energy-to-the-whole-tree\/\" aria-label=\"Watering the roots of a tree gives energy to the whole tree\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":55023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-55033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-bhajana-rahasya-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 06:41:52","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\/55033","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=55033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}