{"id":987,"date":"2023-10-12T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2023-10-12T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:38:32","slug":"smile-of-buddha-and-gorak%e1%b9%a3anath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Smile of Buddha and Gorak\u1e63an\u0101th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you look at the images of Buddha and <em>Gorak\u1e63an\u0101th<\/em>, you will notice slight smiles on their faces. But it&#8217;s not some super blissful appearance. I have noticed that many people like <em>bajans<\/em> and <em>kirtans<\/em>, as is the case in many <em>bhakti<\/em> schools or in the inaccurate understanding of some <em>tantric<\/em> streams, because there is an excess of &#8220;<em>\u0101nanda<\/em>&#8221; there. For many people such <em>\u0101nanda<\/em> and excessive joy seems to me to be an attempt to displace the presence of pain that this life is full of. However, this often leads to a person not noticing the external reality. But, if your bliss is moderate, like a light smouldering fire in the <em>dhuna<\/em>, then you do not run away from life and are not consumed by it, you are in contact with it as if &#8220;gliding&#8221;. That is, you calmly perceive the reality of life in a moderately &#8220;positive&#8221; state, which awakens wisdom in you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at the images of Buddha and Gorak\u1e63an\u0101th, you will notice slight smiles on their faces. But it&#8217;s not some super blissful appearance. I have noticed that many people like bajans and kirtans, as is the case in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=987\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[285,284,122],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gorakanatha","tag-ananda","tag-buddha","tag-siva-gorakanatha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}