{"id":17138,"date":"2015-05-01T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17138"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:41:43","slug":"oh-krishna-what-folly-it-was-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=17138","title":{"rendered":"Oh Krishna, what folly it was for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-z3-ISjdgH4g\/VUOCbRvYRgI\/AAAAAAAAOp8\/siZAUQnroLU\/s0\/2015-05-01_15-40-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jessica: Oh Krishna, what folly it was for me<br \/>\nto ever invest my devotion in the things<br \/>\nthat are part of this material world.<br \/>\nFor real love cannot be found apart from You!<\/p>\n<p>Like a thousand suns, just a glimmer of Your<br \/>\neffulgence drowns me with both ecstasy and sorrow.<br \/>\nEcstasy at the realization of the path that leads to You.<br \/>\nI enter upon it with eagerness and intense thirst.<br \/>\nLike an antelope sprinting towards a faraway freshwater spring;<br \/>\nRealizing that You are the only source that will satisfy my parched soul!<\/p>\n<p>Sorrow at the deep longing I feel.<br \/>\nI want more of You!<br \/>\nLet the wounds of my heart freely flow,<br \/>\nTheir byproducts of lamentation and grief<br \/>\nreminding me of the bitter fruits this material<br \/>\nworld has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>May my intense longing and greed<br \/>\nfor Your affections not go unnoticed.<br \/>\nMay You perceive the single prayer<br \/>\nthat reverberates throughout the deepest<br \/>\nchambers of my heart, and through Your mercy<br \/>\nmay You someday grant me eternal entrance into<br \/>\nYour inconceivably splendorous divine pastimes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/asecretdevotion.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/27\/moving-forward-continuing-on-the-path-of-bhakti-yoga\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-z3-ISjdgH4g\/VUOCbRvYRgI\/AAAAAAAAOp8\/siZAUQnroLU\/s0\/2015-05-01_15-40-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Jessica: Oh Krishna, what folly it was for me to ever invest my devotion in the things that are part of this material world.  For real love cannot be found apart from You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","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=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17140,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}