{"id":1624,"date":"2010-07-14T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2010-07-14T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:31:56","slug":"who-is-ramakrishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/14\/who-is-ramakrishna\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ramakrishna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When Hindus talk about a divine incarnation, they mean somebody who is the actual vehicle by which God himself appears, manifests himself on the earth. Such a being has no past, he is not subject to the wheel of birth and rebirth\u2014he has no karma in this sense, he simply manifests himself to do good to the world. He is, if you like, an expression of the world\u2019s need at any particular moment. He manifests himself and gives through himself power, which is then transmitted and gradually begins to work within Society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedanta.org\/reading\/monthly\/articles\/2001\/3.who_is_ramakrishna.html\">Who Is Ramakrishna?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This link leads to a helpful and interesting article attempting to explain Hinduism and the status Ramakrishna has for the author.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Hindus talk about a divine incarnation, they mean somebody who is the actual vehicle by which God himself appears, manifests himself on the earth. Such a being has no past, he is not subject to the wheel of birth and rebirth\u2014he has no karma in this sense, he simply manifests himself to do good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/14\/who-is-ramakrishna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who Is Ramakrishna?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,150],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-interfaith","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}