{"id":29341,"date":"2016-07-09T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/147137938541"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:46:41","slug":"annual-ratha-yatra-festival-of-lord-jagannatha-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=29341","title":{"rendered":"Annual Ratha Yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha in Kampala,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oa1rswa4bW1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oa1rswa4bW1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oa1rswa4bW1sbj0vuo1_500-249x187.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Annual Ratha Yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha in Kampala, Uganda.<br \/>\nThe International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) held the annual Rath Yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha on Saturday in Kampala.<br \/>\nThe event is held annually in July. Rath Yatra involves moving deities Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshana on a chariot called a ratha or rotho.<br \/>\nThe procession led by a band started from the ISKCON Hare Krishna temple on Dewinton road, through Siad Barre avenue before ending at the SSDM temple in Nakasero, where prayers and dinner were held.<br \/>\nWith live instruments being played coupled with clapping and dancing, followers chanted \u201cHare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna-Krishna, Hare-Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama-Rama, Hare-Hare\u201d. Others held onto the ropes attached to the chariot.<br \/>\nIt is believed that one touch of the holy rope of Lord Jagannatha\u2019s chariot can free one of all types of sinful reactions,\u201d according to Rajni Tailor, the ISKCON patron.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s local theme was all about the gratitude for helping Uganda go through a peaceful electoral process.<br \/>\nISKCON was founded in 1966 by His Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and is headquartered in Mayapur village, near Calcutta, India. It draws spiritual sustenance from the Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Blessed One), a most sacred Hindu scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e00450b632d61c974cc41786cb52ee13\/tumblr_oa1rswa4bW1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Annual Ratha Yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha in Kampala, Uganda.<br \/>\nThe International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) held the annual Rath Yatra festival of Lord Jagannatha on Saturday in Kampala.<br \/>\nThe event is held annually in July. Rath Yatra involves moving deities Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshana on a chariot called a ratha or rotho.<br \/>\nThe procession led by a band started from the ISKCON Hare Krishna temple on Dewinton road, through Siad Barre avenue before ending at the SSDM temple in Nakasero, where prayers and dinner were held.<br \/>\nWith live instruments being played coupled with clapping and dancing, followers chanted &ldquo;Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna-Krishna, Hare-Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama-Rama, Hare-Hare&rdquo;. Others held onto the ropes attached to the chariot.<br \/>\nIt is believed that one touch of the holy rope of Lord Jagannatha&rsquo;s chariot can free one of all types of sinful reactions,&rdquo; according to Rajni Tailor, the ISKCON patron.<br \/>\nThis year&rsquo;s local theme was all about the gratitude for helping Uganda go through a peaceful electoral process.<br \/>\nISKCON was founded in 1966 by His Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and is headquartered in Mayapur village, near Calcutta, India. It draws spiritual sustenance from the Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Blessed One), a most sacred Hindu scripture.<\/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-29341","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\/29341","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=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38553,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions\/38553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}