{"id":10515,"date":"2012-05-07T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2012-05-08T05:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:15:51","slug":"the-only-prayer-that-everyone-should-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10515","title":{"rendered":"The Only Prayer that Everyone Should Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a lecture on N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva\u2019s Appearance Day<br \/>\nby HH Gour Govinda Swami 14 May 1995 Bhubaneswar        <\/p>\n<p>yadi d\u0101syasi me k\u0101m\u0101n<br \/>\nvar\u0101\u1e41s tva\u1e41 varadar\u1e63abha<br \/>\nk\u0101m\u0101n\u0101\u1e41 h\u1e5bdy asa\u1e41roha\u1e41<br \/>\nbhavatas tu v\u1e5b\u1e47e varam<\/p>\n<p> \u201cO my Lord, best of the givers of benediction, if You at all want to bestow a desirable benediction upon me, then I pray from Your Lordship that within the core of my heart there be no material desires.\u201d (\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam 7.10.70)<\/p>\n<p>Gour Govinda Swami: Offer this prayer, and if the Lord grants this boon then material desires will be gone. This is the prayer that all should offer. We have so many lusty desires. Who will root them out? So everybody should offer prayers at the lotus feet of the Lord from the core of the heart. \u201cIf You want to give me a boon, please take away all lusty desire so that never at any time, in any condition, under any circumstance will material desires crop up in my heart.\u201d When N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva was ready to give him any boon he desired, Prahl\u0101da Mah\u0101r\u0101ja asked for this boon.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Tattva-vicara Publications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2012-05-07_20.45.46.jpg\"\/><strong>By Gour Govinda Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> From a lecture on N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva\u2019s Appearance Day by Gour Govinda Swami 14 May 1995 Bhubaneswar<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}