{"id":69571,"date":"2025-01-07T01:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=69571"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:55:50","slug":"even-then-krishna-is-merciful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/even-then-krishna-is-merciful\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Then, Krishna is Merciful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/jiva_puppet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/jiva_puppet-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/jiva_puppet-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/jiva_puppet.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The manifestation of the Jiva<\/h2>\n<p>Jiva-vaibhava<\/p>\n<p>Since they are inherently spiritual in nature, Jivas possess independence. They are countless and their goal is limitless pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The liberated Jiva<\/h2>\n<p>Mukta jiva<\/p>\n<p>Those Jivas who turn to Krishna for such pleasure are liberated from material bondage and become companions of Krishna.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"_Toc159506162\"><\/a>The captive or adverse Jiva<\/h2>\n<p>Baddha va bahirmukha jiva<\/p>\n<p>Those who continue to think of their own selfish happiness wish to remain by Maya&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>They eternally turn their faces away from Krishna and enter Devi-dhama, where they obtain bodies created by Maya.<\/p>\n<p>Then they fall into the wheel of punya and papa<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. They constantly wander around living in gross and subtle bodies<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they rise to Svarga, sometimes they fall into hellish conditions. They constantly wander through eight million four hundred thousand wombs<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"_Toc159506163\"><\/a>Even then, Krishna is merciful<\/h2>\n<p>Tathapi krishna-daya<\/p>\n<p>You are Infinite, and the Jivas are Your manifestations. Verily, You always think of the welfare of Your servants<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happiness they seek, You are so merciful that you grant it to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Worthy activities and sinful activities, contrary to our own interests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Bodies made of physical and non-physical elements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Krishna never forgets the Jivas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This is a section of the book \u201cHarinama Cintamani (English)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/harinama-cintamani-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The manifestation of the Jiva Jiva-vaibhava Since they are inherently spiritual in nature, Jivas possess independence. They are countless and their goal is limitless pleasure. &nbsp; The liberated Jiva Mukta jiva Those Jivas who turn to &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/even-then-krishna-is-merciful\/\" aria-label=\"Even Then, Krishna is Merciful\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":47093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-69571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-harinama-cintamani-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 05:19:51","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\/69571","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}