{"id":16009,"date":"2015-03-10T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=16009"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:57:38","slug":"gaura-punima-celebrations-in-nanda-gram-temple-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=16009","title":{"rendered":"Gaura punima celebrations in Nanda gram temple, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mahavrata Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year gaura punima was celebrated in grand style as devotees gathered early in the morning, chanting, fasting and singing devotional lyrics. it was later followed by fire sacrifice, abhiseke and prasadam in the night. It was repeated on Sunday in a bigger way for the India community and workers who could not meet up during the week. It was all fun as devotees took turn to chant, children performances, Bhajan, fire sacrifice, abhiseke, varieties of prasadam for guests and devotees.  <\/p>\n<p>By Mahavrata Devi Dasi, Port Harcourt Nanda Gram.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-047WZFIrWhM\/VP7Nhqo1eNI\/AAAAAAAAMeo\/tdyg4_VdlYs\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-55-00.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-dh4YiBCyBqs\/VP7NnpZs70I\/AAAAAAAAMew\/kDjDDbOGJWk\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-55-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-nKKyzYMobu8\/VP7Nspev8nI\/AAAAAAAAMe4\/cKBISfuWwig\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-55-45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-z5O3PxXE7oc\/VP7NxDs2JSI\/AAAAAAAAMfA\/p3eCBO8uOBk\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-56-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-st4Ze4QMfrU\/VP7N22WT5SI\/AAAAAAAAMfI\/1AO1GE_Ytk4\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-56-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-AbzJgwHgfXo\/VP7OEadb5hI\/AAAAAAAAMfQ\/gBXzvS4CmhM\/s0\/2015-03-10_11-57-21.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Mahavrata Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year gaura punima was celebrated in grand style as devotees gathered early in the morning, chanting, fasting and singing devotional lyrics. it was later followed by fire sacrifice, abhiseke and prasadam in the night. It was repeated on Sunday in a bigger way for the India community and workers who could not meet up during the week. It was all fun as devotees took turn to chant, children performances, Bhajan, fire sacrifice, abhiseke, varieties of prasadam for guests and devotees. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009","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=16009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16011,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions\/16011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}