{"id":802,"date":"2014-08-24T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:40:06","slug":"reality-the-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/24\/reality-the-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality the Beautiful"},"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 size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2092\" height=\"2054\" src=\"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min.jpg 2092w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min-1024x1005.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min-1536x1508.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/reality-the-beautiful-min-2048x2011.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2092px) 100vw, 2092px\" \/><\/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><strong>r<\/strong>\u0101dh\u0101 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pra\u1e47aya-vik\u1e5btir hl\u0101din\u012b \u015baktir asm\u0101d<br>ek\u0101tm\u0101n\u0101v api bhuvi pur\u0101 deha-bhedam\u0307 gatau tau<br>caitany\u0101khyam\u0307 praka\u1e6dam adhun\u0101 tad-dvayam\u0307\u00a0caikyam \u0101ptam\u0307<br>r\u0101dh\u0101-bh\u0101va-dyuti-suvalitam\u0307 naumi k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-svar\u016bpam<\/p>\n<cite>\u015ar\u012b Caitanya-carit\u0101m\u1e5bta, \u0100di-l\u012bl\u0101 1.5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Quote-Shastra is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-3 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><strong>Purport<\/strong>:<br>Sometimes R\u0101dh\u0101 and Krishna are combined; sometimes They are separate. They are separate in Dv\u0101para-yuga, and in Kali-yuga they are combined as \u015ar\u012b Krishna Chaitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. Both are eternal expressions of the same Absolute Truth. Summer, autumn, winter, and spring continue in a cyclic order; it cannot be said that summer is the beginning and winter comes later. So, the pastimes of \u015ar\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101 and Krishna are eternally being enacted.<br>In ancient times, sometimes R\u0101dh\u0101 and Krishna divided Themselves and showed Their pastimes; again both of Them, the potency and the owner of the potency, are combined and closely embraced as \u015ar\u012b Chaitanya Mah\u0101prabhu.<br>The predominating and the predominated moiety are mixed, and an extraordinary ecstatic feeling is there. Krishna is overpowered by His potency, and He Himself is searching after His own Self: k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47asya \u0101tm\u0101nusandh\u0101na. Krishna Himself is engaged in the search for \u015ar\u012b Krishna, Reality the Beautiful. The influence of R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b over Krishna has transformed Him into a devotee, and He is searching Himself. Sweetness is tasting Itself and becoming mad. And it is living sweetness \u2014 not dead or static, but dynamic ecstasy, sweetness endowed with life. And He is tasting Himself, the personification of happiness, ecstasy, and beauty \u2014 and dancing in madness. And His performance of k\u012brtan means distributing that ecstasy to others. The ultimate sweetness, or \u0101nanda, is such that no other thing exists that can taste itself and express its own happiness with such intensity.<strong>am<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite>Sw\u0101m\u012b B.R \u015ar\u012bdhar<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>r\u0101dh\u0101 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pra\u1e47aya-vik\u1e5btir hl\u0101din\u012b \u015baktir asm\u0101dek\u0101tm\u0101n\u0101v api bhuvi pur\u0101 deha-bhedam\u0307 gatau taucaitany\u0101khyam\u0307 praka\u1e6dam adhun\u0101 tad-dvayam\u0307\u00a0caikyam \u0101ptam\u0307r\u0101dh\u0101-bh\u0101va-dyuti-suvalitam\u0307 naumi k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-svar\u016bpam Purport:Sometimes R\u0101dh\u0101 and Krishna are combined; sometimes They are separate. They are separate in Dv\u0101para-yuga, and in Kali-yuga they are combined as \u015ar\u012b Krishna Chaitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. Both are eternal expressions of the same Absolute Truth. Summer, autumn, winter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2233,"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\/802"}],"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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}