{"id":419,"date":"2019-05-16T08:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2019-06-25T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:13:01","slug":"seek-god-as-bliss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/seek-god-as-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek God as Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div id=\"x-section-1\"  class=\"x-section\"  style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px 0px 45px; background-color: transparent;\"   ><div  class=\"x-container max width\"  style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\"   ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-2-3\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-text\"    ><p>From <em>The Essence of Self-Realization,<\/em><br \/>\nby Paramhansa Yogananda<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to escape ego-bondage, learn to be more impersonal where your own feelings are concerned. Love for God too easily becomes personal in the human sense. When it does so, you give emphasis to the very ego you need to transcend, in order to find Him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore it is better to seek God for bliss, primarily, and only secondarily for love, lest your love for Him fall short of that impersonal quality which is the essence of divine love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadha was a great devotee of Krishna. But once she fell briefly into the delusion of personal love. The thought entered her mind that she completely owned Krishna. Soon afterward they were walking together in the forest. Radha said, \u2018I am very tired.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Oh?\u2019 replied Krishna. \u2018Would you like me to carry you?\u2019 She was so pleased! Krishna lifted her onto his back. Just then, as she was thinking how pleasant it was to be carried by him, she found herself on the ground. Krishna had vanished into thin air!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as she held that attitude of possessiveness, you see, he could exist no more for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediately realizing her mistake, Radha knelt on the ground and prayed, \u2018Lord, I beseech your pardon.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKrishna reappeared as if nothing had happened. 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Love for God too easily becomes personal in the human sense. When it does so, you give emphasis to the very ego you need to transcend, in order to find Him. \u201cTherefore it is better to seek God for bliss, primarily, and only\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandamonastery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}