{"id":3095,"date":"2007-03-14T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2007-03-14T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T17:06:07","slug":"guru%e2%80%99s-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Guru\u2019s service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gauranga Nama Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please the Lord by pleasing you<br \/>\n  Without you no knowing what to do<br \/>\n  Without Guru\u2019s shelter one can not serve the Lord<br \/>\n  And is cursed to remain materially absorbed<\/p>\n<p>  As soon as the disciple does not follow<br \/>\n  Then their existence becomes hollow<br \/>\n  Trapped in this world and devoid of devotion<br \/>\n  Constantly mislead by sentimental emotion<\/p>\n<p>  Service for you my saving grace<br \/>\n  Saving me from degraded disgrace<br \/>\n  Your mercifully forceing open my eye\u2019s<br \/>\n  Giving me shelter from material lies<\/p>\n<p>  Material conceptions make one want to be master<br \/>\n  And this can only lead to disaster<br \/>\n  The only path without defeat<br \/>\n  Is the shelter of your two lotus feet<\/p>\n<p>  Conditioned by illusion and bewildered by pride<br \/>\n  Behind false ego the soul trys to hide<br \/>\n  But due to devotion you see through pretence<br \/>\n  Aversion to surrender animalistic defence<\/p>\n<p>  Guru\u2019s service is beyond sentiment<br \/>\n  Delivering souls who were hell bent<br \/>\n  Selflessly taking others karma<br \/>\n  And in exchange He gives them dharma<\/p>\n<p>  Service for Guru the perfection of desire<br \/>\n  Giving shelter from the material fire<br \/>\n  In this world of self centred depravity<br \/>\n  Guru\u2019s instruction and the Name, the only shelter for sanity<\/p>\n<p>  Your deep desire is to give the Name<br \/>\n  This is no game you expertly explain<br \/>\n  No amount of wealth can buy one Name<br \/>\n  The Lord and His Name are one in the same<\/p>\n<p>  The only way to cross this great ocean<br \/>\n  Is with Guru as captain of the ship of devotion<br \/>\n  Redirecting ego with Guru in the centre<br \/>\n  Only then into Krsna\u2019s pastimes may the jiva enter<\/p>\n<p>  I pray that I may serve you with humble submission<br \/>\n  And not challenge nor covet your exalted position<br \/>\n  Desireing the shelter of your two lotus feet<br \/>\n  So that in my heart you may take your rightful seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prabdeada7.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Gauranga Nama Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Please the Lord by pleasing you Without you no knowing what to do Without Guru\u2019s shelter one can not serve the Lord And is cursed to remain materially absorbed<!--more--><\/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-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","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=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}