{"id":101,"date":"2006-03-29T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-05-21T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:17:38","slug":"kirtan-purifies-the-heart-and-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2006\/03\/29\/kirtan-purifies-the-heart-and-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirtan purifies the heart and mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People need to be exposed to <em>kirtan<\/em>. <em>Kirtan<\/em> purifies and pacifies the mind and heart so they can begin to comprehend Krishna consciousness. Without that, their minds are so polluted and scattered they cannot understand. Even whatever you say may be perfect and eloquently spoken, but they cannot receive it. So <em>kirtan<\/em> is for everyone. It&#8217;s the only remedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People need to be exposed to kirtan. Kirtan purifies and pacifies the mind and heart so they can begin to comprehend Krishna consciousness. Without that, their minds are so polluted and scattered they cannot understand. Even whatever you say may &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2006\/03\/29\/kirtan-purifies-the-heart-and-mind\/\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}