{"id":13026,"date":"2014-08-16T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12866"},"modified":"2014-10-08T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:49:07","slug":"planting-trees-at-giri-govardhana-dhama-seva-a-genuine-govermental-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=13026","title":{"rendered":"Planting Trees at Giri Govardhana: Dhama Seva: A Genuine Govermental Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-08-16_17-29-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bhaktisiddhanta Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Independence day, on behalf of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Iskcon devotees from R\u0101dh\u0101 Kunda assisted in a long-range plan of tree replantation around Giri Govardana. Perhaps a feather within the worldwide mission, is the care for the Holy Dh\u0101ma through dh\u0101ma seva; a tribute to a place where the founder \u0101c\u0101rya desired to circumambulate in his final physical days.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the UP. goverment was CDO \u015ar\u012bmati Durga Shakti Nahphal, who met with local officials and Iskcon representatives, Bhaktisiddhanta Swami, Devak\u012b Prana dasa,  and Aishvarya dasa; planted trees near Govinda-ku\u1e47\u1e0da.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters, Bhaktirasamritasindhu Mah\u0101r\u0101j and Pancha Gauda, resident of Iskcon Vrindaban, endorse this effort with Devak\u012b<\/p>\n<p>Prana dasa as an acting local representative.<\/p>\n<p>Requests were made for electricity, water and 4 kinds of trees. The response from \u015ar\u012bmati was: \u201cYou give us the area, and we will provide the land, water and solar lights. You do what ever you want, you just plant! Iskcon is doing such great work through their prasadam distribution.\u201d Several trees were planted on location by \u015ar\u012bmati and the Braja caregivers. efforts<\/p>\n<p>  The government is planning a 300 crore rupee project under the Member of Parliament, Hema Malini for the development, road systems etc., around Giri Govardhana.<\/p>\n<p> Dh\u0101ma seva for the preservation and protection of Braja, is an affair where the material and spiritual collectives can meet, share, and unite. The continued teamwork of concerned parties is a \u2018unity in diversity&#8217; for similar projects, to save the Yamuna etc., are humble attempts to bring Braja back closer its original glory.<\/p>\n<p>   Best wishes<\/p>\n<p> Your servant,<\/p>\n<p>Bhaktisiddhanta Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-08-16_17-30-35.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Bhaktisiddhanta Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> During Independence day, on behalf of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Iskcon devotees from R\u0101dh\u0101 Kunda assisted in a long-range plan of tree replantation around Giri Govardana. Perhaps a feather within the worldwide mission, is the care for the Holy Dh\u0101ma through dh\u0101ma seva; a tribute to a place where the founder \u0101c\u0101rya desired to circumambulate in his final physical days.<!--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-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","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=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}