{"id":10988,"date":"2012-11-02T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2012-11-02T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:21:26","slug":"mayapur-lights-up-wishing-you-a-happy-kartik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10988","title":{"rendered":"Mayapur Lights Up &#8211; Wishing You a Happy Kartik!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jalasaya Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of lamps dance before their Lordships, their glowing flames flickering excitedly within their terracotta vessels. The lights are dim, and the drums are beating, while devotees sway and sing with all the love they can muster from deep within. The temple room is packed, and thousands of palms are clasped, and folded in heartfelt prayer.<br \/>\nBaby Krishna looks pleadingly at the infinite rope twined around Mother Yashoda\u2019s hands, his lotus eyes brimming with sparkling tears. Refusing to get distracted by his damp fan of lashes, and trembling rosy lips, she starts binding him again, exasperated at how the infinite coils never seem enough to tie His small, heaving belly. A warm tear trickled down His dusky cheeks falling unto her shaking hands. She fought the urge to be hypnotized by those enchanting eyes -He had to be disciplined, taught a good lesson &#8211; there was no escaping this time! <\/p>\n<p>Yes \u2013 you have guessed it right, Kartik is finally here! A cool breeze is in the air, while the hovering moon smiles silver beams within a sea of shimmering stars. During the month of Damodar, rewards for service to Krishna are greater than at any other time of year. So we enthusiastically invite you to join us, in this most favorable month, on the journey of fulfilling the vision of that great visionary -Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada \u2013 the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium. This is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to be a part of history, and part of a mission which will benefit\u00a0ALL of society, for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Irrespective of what you are considering in donating&#8230;we are grateful for any support you can provide. No Drops, No Ocean- and therefore, we need YOUR help to spread this nectarine ocean of Krsna-Prema , by pleasing  Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.<\/p>\n<p>A donation of only $150 covers one square foot of the temple surface area. Please visit us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tovp.org\/\">http:\/\/www.tovp.org\/<\/a> for further details, and write to us at tovpinfo@gmail.com  if you have any questions at all; we are always here to serve you.  Please consider that every contribution makes a difference, and brings us closer towards fulfilling this amazing five century old prophecy.  <\/p>\n<p>Jaya Sri Damodar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/482012-11-02-10-2248.jpg\"\/><strong>By Jalasaya Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Yes \u2013 you have guessed it right, Kartik is finally here! A cool breeze is in the air, while the hovering moon smiles silver beams within a sea of shimmering stars. During the month of Damodar, rewards for service to Krishna are greater than at any other time of year<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","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=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}