{"id":14121,"date":"2014-11-10T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14121"},"modified":"2018-01-07T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T19:32:09","slug":"once-you-visit-you-never-leave-a-pilgrimage-to-vrindavan-and-mayapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=14121","title":{"rendered":"Once You Visit You Never Leave: A Pilgrimage to Vrindavan and Mayapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2014-11-10_13-46-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<!--[advanced_iframe securitykey=\"eecc28587071a557a4d7ab985109c85ec4091199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/Once.htm\"] <!-- --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\njQuery(document).ready(function(){\n\tsetInterval( function() { AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight( 'auto-iframe', 50); }, 1000 );\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"auto-iframe\" name=\"auto-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/Once.htm\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"onload=\"AutoiFrameAdjustiFrameHeight('auto-iframe',50);\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2014-11-10_13-41-22.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Mark D. Vickers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(A retired British Army officer living in Taiwan) &#8220;I had made the trip with an open heart and mind, but never imagined quite how huge a transformation this journey would have on me.&#8221;  I started planning my pilgrimage to Vrindavan and Mayapur early last summer at my home in Taiwan. As my dates were becoming fixed, Sankirtana Dasa, my friend and mentor from the Taipei temple, told me he would also be visiting Vrindavan around the same time, and we synchronized our outbound flights so we could travel together. The weeks flew by, and suddenly it was October 4 and time to meet up for a flight to Shanghai, and from there to New Delhi, arriving at 1:10 A.M. (local time) the next day. <!--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-14121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121","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=14121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55109,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions\/55109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}