{"id":23445,"date":"2016-01-12T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=23445"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:24:39","slug":"srila-jiva-gosvamis-extraordinary-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=23445","title":{"rendered":"Srila Jiva Gosvami\u2019s Extraordinary Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-7uyHnu1XVtE\/VpTPLjgbO6I\/AAAAAAAAYnk\/Avh5gW1-ZvA\/s0\/Srila_Jiva_Gosvami%252527s_Extraordinary_Merit_by_Tattva_2016-01-12_11-02-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<div data-configid=\"0\/10676322\" style=\"width:650px; height:462px;\" class=\"issuuembed\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-py5UoWnIs08\/VpTPeS1mXBI\/AAAAAAAAYns\/vlHB5NBgEHM\/s0\/Croply_-_Mozilla_Firefox_2016-01-12_11-03-37.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Gour Govinda Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> During his childhood, Sri Jiva Gosvami only enacted the pastimes of Sri Krsna and Balarama. He did not play any other games. He had very nice deities of Krsna and Balarama. Every day he was decorating them, doing srngara, offering worship, offering bhoga and, with concentrated attention, without even blinking his eyes, he would look at the beautiful form of Krsna and offer dandavat pranama to Him. While he was studying, he was thinking of Sri Sri Gaura and Nitai. Once, at night he saw in a dream that Gaura and Nitai are Sri Krsna and Sri Balarama. The wonderfully merciful Sri Gaura and Nitai gave some dust from their lotus feet to Jiva Gosvami. They gave him their blessings and then disappeared. Then his dream broke and he woke up. Then he thought, \u201cOh, when shall I leave this material world, cut off this material bondage, and completely be engaged in the service of Sriman Mahaprabhu?\u201d<!--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-23445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445","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=23445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23452,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions\/23452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}