{"id":224,"date":"2024-03-06T01:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/?p=224"},"modified":"2024-03-06T01:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:44:29","slug":"yesterday-i-spoke-about-there-not-being-a-guru-of-krishna-at-least-not-in-the-sense-of-being-well-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/2024\/03\/06\/yesterday-i-spoke-about-there-not-being-a-guru-of-krishna-at-least-not-in-the-sense-of-being-well-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday I spoke about there not being a Guru of Krishna, at least not in the sense of being well known"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Or being a presence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are supposed to be like the king that krishna is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And today a video that I had been overlooking &#8211; brought Saandipani to me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among several pieces of media that I had to oversee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically I was teaching that a Guru is not for everyone. A guru is for those that are ineligible for the devotee \/ deity coupling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore I am not going to google if EVER there was a guru for Hanuman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because even if there was a name that was injected at some point of time, they will only be a distraction for Hanuman &#8211; and for all purposes they are useless because even I dont know them &#8211; there was none!\u00a0 Hanuman has no time and energy for distractions of any kind.\u00a0 He is okay with being vismrit &#8211; in forgetfulness and melancholy in separation.\u00a0 But Hanuman knows His Lord has no time for an intermediary either &#8211; He is always approachable.\u00a0 That is the concept of Bhakti.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore we can say there is NO use for a Guru for someone that is in the Bhakti tradition &#8211; anything other than your Deity is to distract you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will explain more with the oozzoo theory on my Ashram blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or being a presence.&nbsp; We are supposed to be like the king that krishna is.&nbsp; And today a video that I had been overlooking &#8211; brought Saandipani to me.&nbsp; Among several pieces of media that I had to oversee.&nbsp; Basically I was teaching that a Guru is not for everyone. A guru is for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhakti.exchange\/ashram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}