{"id":112022,"date":"2023-09-16T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112022"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:16:10","slug":"honoring-the-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112022","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Samapriya Dasi<\/p>\n

The Harvest<\/p>\n

When the seeds of devotion have all been sown,
\nAnd everything planted has already grown,
\nWhen there\u2019s not much left for which to atone,
\nTo the ways of the world you are not much prone,<\/p>\n

It is time for the harvest from Mother Earth\u2019s womb,
\nfor the fruits and flowers are now all in bloom.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a plan from the very start,
\nto abound in faith and strength of heart.
\nTo place yourself as one of the sheep,
\nof the perfect master whose bounty you\u2019ll reap.<\/p>\n

Now is the time, the harvest has arrived,
\ngathering souls like blossoms in the field.
\nOn the words of their guru is how they survived,
\nwhile others stood proudly, they bowed down and kneeled.<\/p>\n

To the Lord\u2019s own abode these bhaktas depart,
\non the wings of their love and devotion.
\nLike the water that\u2019s held in the footprint of a calf,
\nthey cross the material ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Samapriya Dasi The Harvest When the seeds of devotion have all been sown, And everything planted has already grown, When there\u2019s not much left for which to atone, To the ways of the world you are not much prone, It is time for the harvest from Mother Earth\u2019s womb, for the fruits and flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112022","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=112022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112024,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112022\/revisions\/112024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}