{"id":1320,"date":"2009-01-01T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2009-01-02T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:39:40","slug":"kk-612-ears-playing-tug-of-war-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam\/kk-612-ears-playing-tug-of-war-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"KK 61.2 &#8211; Ears playing tug-of-war !!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Sriman-Mahaprabhu has uttered in the mood of Sri Radha \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;His sweet speech is more nectarine than nectar, since it is mixed with the camphor of His sweet smiles. <!--more-->He chooses words so expertly, with double meanings and expresses various <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">ras<\/em>. Every syllable is adorned (saturated) with wit and humour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">My ears are like the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">chakor<\/em>-bird that depends solely on one drop of that nectar for survival. My <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">chakor<\/em>-like ears are alive only in that hope. Sometimes they are lucky enough to get it (Sri Krishna\u2019s nectarine words) and at other times they are not so lucky and hence die of thirst.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>&#8211; [Sri Chaitanya-Charit\u00e2mrit\u00e2ntya.17.41-42]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The ears that cannot hear Sri Krishna\u2019s nectarine speech are worthless. <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1342\" title=\"1gouranga111\" src=\"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1gouranga111.jpg\" alt=\"1gouranga111\" width=\"251\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1gouranga111.jpg 251w, https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1gouranga111-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/>&#8220;Krishna\u2019s sweet speech is a flow of nectar. The ears that are not blessed enough so as to experience it, are nothing but bad pennies! They are worthless indeed!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8211; [C.C.Madhya.2.28]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">But then, this same nectarine speech lands the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Vrajab\u00e2l\u00e2s<\/em> in great trouble! For example \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;Krishna\u2019s speech is unspeakably unjust! It is too sweet, too full of different <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">ras<\/em> and too funny! It pulls the ears of the fair sex by force of its sweetness. Poor ears! They perish in the tug-of-war!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>&#8211; [Sri Chaitanya-Charit\u00e2mrita.Antya.15.18]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\" lang=\"EN-GB\">(contd&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He chooses words so expertly, with double meanings and expresses various ras. <a href=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam\/kk-612-ears-playing-tug-of-war-cry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,166],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam","category-verse-60","tag-excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}