{"id":112150,"date":"2023-10-22T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112150"},"modified":"2023-10-22T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:41:59","slug":"indradyumna-swami-we-left-our-hearts-in-a-destitute-south-african-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112150","title":{"rendered":"Indradyumna Swami: &#8220;We left our hearts in a destitute South African township&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indradyumna Swami: There is a common saying amongst devotees these days: &#8220;I left my heart in Vrindavan.&#8221;  Well, in all honesty we recently &#8220;left our hearts in a destitute South African township&#8221; because there we saw and experienced the presence of Lord Caitanya&#8217;s causeless mercy upon one and all.  Without a doubt, such service is the ticket home to the spiritual world.  Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati writes in his epic, Sri Caitanya Candramrita, Chapter 8, text 88: &#8220;To the degree that we surrender to Lord Caitanya&#8217;s service, to that degree we acquire qualification for service to Srimati Radharani&#8217;s lotus feet in Vraja.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Heart\u2019s Desire\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_3yABPGXEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_3yABPGXEM\">Our Heart\u2019s Desire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_3yABPGXEM\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/s_3yABPGXEM\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/s_3yABPGXEM\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Indradyumna Swami: There is a common saying amongst devotees these days: &#8220;I left my heart in Vrindavan.&#8221; Well, in all honesty we recently &#8220;left our hearts in a destitute South African township&#8221; because there we saw and experienced the presence of Lord Caitanya&#8217;s causeless mercy upon one and all. Without a doubt, such service is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112150","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=112150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112151,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112150\/revisions\/112151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}