{"id":112425,"date":"2024-02-23T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112425"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:17:14","slug":"vyasa-puja-offering-for-bhaktisiddhanta-saraswati-prabhupada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=112425","title":{"rendered":"VYASA PUJA OFFERING FOR BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASWATI PRABHUPADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/98arSnm.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\nBy Bhaktimarga Swami<br \/>\nnama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale<br \/>\nsrimate bhaktisiddhanta saraswati iti namine<\/p>\n<p>You are our special link to the chain<br \/>\nAnd connection to the spirit vein<br \/>\nYou are Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati<br \/>\nResident of holy Jagannatha Puri<br \/>\nA genius who was not a light debater<br \/>\nA risk-taker and proven innovator<br \/>\nA lecturer owing to your reading<br \/>\nNo wonder you were competent in your leading<br \/>\nA ray of Vishnu, the singha (lion) guru<br \/>\nCaste\u00a0brahmins and mayavadis you&#39;d pursue<br \/>\nYet inclusiveness was your determined theme<br \/>\nYou thought fallen mlecchas\u00a0could be part of the scheme<br \/>\nA lover of\u00a0bhajan projecting sacred sound<br \/>\nBut brihat mridanga\u00a0was the beat to get around<br \/>\nThe printing press was for the world<br \/>\nA vision beyond India you had unfurled<br \/>\nAnd shared with your dear Abhay Charan<br \/>\nWho later on created the benevolent ISKCON<br \/>\nHe was a follower of Gandhi at the time<br \/>\nAt an extraordinary social-political prime<br \/>\nI express from the heart a great gratitude<br \/>\nThat later generations can find solitude<br \/>\nAnd for not excluding us from the\u00a0bhakti trail<br \/>\nBecause frankly life can be a jail<br \/>\nThe pursuit of lust, anger, and greed<br \/>\nOr any other notorious inner weed<br \/>\nIs to be extracted at the very root<br \/>\nAnd replaced with Krishna prema, the fruit<br \/>\nHad you not come when you did<br \/>\nWe would all remain on that rotting grid<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 By Bhaktimarga Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/98arSnm.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/>By Bhaktimarga Swami nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale srimate bhaktisiddhanta saraswati iti namine You are our special link to the chain And connection to the spirit vein You are Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Resident of holy Jagannatha Puri A genius who was not a light debater A risk-taker and proven innovator A lecturer owing to your reading<\/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-112425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112425","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=112425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112426,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112425\/revisions\/112426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}