{"id":19417,"date":"2015-08-30T02:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19417"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:47:14","slug":"bhakti-sangam-festival-in-ukraine-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19417","title":{"rendered":"Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5A07vQ5p04k\/VeJoSQL2CjI\/AAAAAAAATAQ\/3TM6qJbfR_Q\/s0\/2015-08-30_04-19-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indradyumna Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annual Bhakti Sangam Festival is surely the most amazing event on this planet, with so many Maharajas and preachers sharing their realizations in seminars, and the evenings are spent in most sublime kirtans. Last year&#8217;s Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine was cancelled due to the political situation in the country. So this year&#8217;s festival is especially important to the many devotees in the country. They are relishing each other&#8217;s association, spending the time chanting, dancing and hearing spiritual discourses by senior devotees. In a country with political instability, fighting on the eastern front and an economic crisis, Ukrainian devotees are taking shelter of Krsna\u2019s holy names at the Bhakti Sangam Festival in the countryside near Shatsk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/indradyumna\/videos\/vb.1321748113\/10204735984462436\/?type=1\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indradyumna\/videos\/10204735984462436\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indradyumna\/videos\/10204735984462436\/\">Together Again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#039;s Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine was cancelled due to the political situation in the country. So this years festival is especially important to the many devotees in the country. They are relishing each others association, spending the time chanting, dancing and hearing spiritual discourses by senior devotees.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indradyumna\">Indradyumna Swami<\/a> on Saturday, August 29, 2015<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-JErSG0EX5DQ\/VeJob7S_76I\/AAAAAAAATAY\/RkuJBDOBIzM\/s0\/2015-08-30_04-20-32.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Indradyumna Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annual Bhakti Sangam Festival is surely the most amazing event on this planet, with so many Maharajas and preachers sharing their realizations in seminars, and the evenings are spent in most sublime kirtans. Last year&#8217;s Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine was cancelled due to the political situation in the country. So this year&#8217;s festival is especially important to the many devotees in the country. They are relishing each other&#8217;s association, spending the time chanting, dancing and hearing spiritual discourses by senior devotees. In a country with political instability, fighting on the eastern front and an economic crisis, Ukrainian devotees are taking shelter of Krsna\u2019s holy names at the Bhakti Sangam Festival in the countryside near Shatsk<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","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=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49832,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/49832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}