{"id":529,"date":"2014-08-01T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:57:12","slug":"beauty-for-loves-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/01\/beauty-for-loves-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty for Love&#8217;s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Art-Full is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Beauty4Love.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Quote-Shastra is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>ap\u0101ra\u1e41 kasy\u0101pi pra\u1e47ayi-jana-v\u1e5bndasya kutuk\u012b<br>rasa-stoma\u1e41 h\u1e5btv\u0101 madhuram upabhoktu\u1e41kam api ya\u1e25<br>ruca\u1e41 sv\u0101m \u0101vavre dyutim iha tad\u012by\u0101\u1e41 praka\u1e6dayan<br>sa deva\u015b caitany\u0101k\u1e5btir atitar\u0101\u1e41 na\u1e25 k\u1e5bpayatu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love possessed by one of His multitude of loving damsels &#8211; \u015ar\u012bmat\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101n\u012b\u00a0&#8211; , and so He has assumed the form of Lord Chaitanya. He has tasted that love while hiding His own dark complexion with Her effulgent golden\u00a0luster. May that Lord Chaitanya confer upon us His grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>~ from the Stava-m\u0101l\u0101\u00a0of \u015ar\u012bla R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ap\u0101ra\u1e41 kasy\u0101pi pra\u1e47ayi-jana-v\u1e5bndasya kutuk\u012brasa-stoma\u1e41 h\u1e5btv\u0101 madhuram upabhoktu\u1e41kam api ya\u1e25ruca\u1e41 sv\u0101m \u0101vavre dyutim iha tad\u012by\u0101\u1e41 praka\u1e6dayansa deva\u015b caitany\u0101k\u1e5btir atitar\u0101\u1e41 na\u1e25 k\u1e5bpayatu \u201cLord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love possessed by one of His multitude of loving damsels &#8211; \u015ar\u012bmat\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101n\u012b\u00a0&#8211; , and so He has assumed the form of Lord Chaitanya. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}