{"id":27077,"date":"2016-05-03T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/143782389501"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:18:42","slug":"a-z-of-things-unseen-y-is-for-yamuna-5-min-audiothe-yamuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=27077","title":{"rendered":"A-Z of Things Unseen: Y is for Yamuna (5 min audio)\nThe Yamuna&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o6ldqpvD301sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o6ldqpvD301sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o6ldqpvD301sbj0vuo1_500-280x147.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A-Z of Things Unseen: Y is for Yamuna (5 min audio)<br \/>\nThe Yamuna is one of the many rivers in India that are sacred to Hindus. On its banks lies the city of Vrindavan, believed to be the birthplace of the Lord Krishna.<br \/>\nShaunaka Rishi Das from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies has visited the Yamuna many times over several decades. In this edition of the A-Z of Things Unseen, he recalls some key moments of spiritual awakening and growth which he experienced on the banks of the sacred river.<br \/>\nAmong them is a challenge thrown out by an old man during his first ever bath in the Yamuna with a group of devotees from Ireland. Other seminal experiences include a close encounter with a snake, and the insights Shaunaka gained after he scattered his wife\u2019s ashes in the sacred river: rather than him returning his wife to Krishna, he realized, she had been his all along and only shared her husband\u2019s life \u201cas a loan\u201d from God. With that insight came acceptance of her death.<br \/>\nThe A-Z of Things Unseen is an eclectic mix of voices from different faiths (as well as some doubters), each tackling a concept of their choice from a personal perspective.<br \/>\nListen to it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/w3Ely4\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/w3Ely4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/1e3a9c61bf44c29f02025d659be113f2\/tumblr_o6ldqpvD301sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A-Z of Things Unseen: Y is for Yamuna (5 min audio)<br \/>\nThe Yamuna is one of the many rivers in India that are sacred to Hindus. On its banks lies the city of Vrindavan, believed to be the birthplace of the Lord Krishna.<br \/>\nShaunaka Rishi Das from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies has visited the Yamuna many times over several decades. In this edition of the A-Z of Things Unseen, he recalls some key moments of spiritual awakening and growth which he experienced on the banks of the sacred river.<br \/>\nAmong them is a challenge thrown out by an old man during his first ever bath in the Yamuna with a group of devotees from Ireland. Other seminal experiences include a close encounter with a snake, and the insights Shaunaka gained after he scattered his wife&rsquo;s ashes in the sacred river: rather than him returning his wife to Krishna, he realized, she had been his all along and only shared her husband&rsquo;s life &ldquo;as a loan&rdquo; from God. With that insight came acceptance of her death.<br \/>\nThe A-Z of Things Unseen is an eclectic mix of voices from different faiths (as well as some doubters), each tackling a concept of their choice from a personal perspective.<br \/>\nListen to it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/w3Ely4\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/w3Ely4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39609,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27077\/revisions\/39609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}