{"id":3975,"date":"2007-07-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2007-07-23T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:00:00","slug":"what-is-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"What is death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Radhikakrpa devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is death?<br \/>\nIs it a beginning or an end?<br \/>\nLife is the path;<br \/>\nLord gave us to tread,<br \/>\nOur deeds lead us in a direction,<br \/>\nThat sets our destination,<br \/>\nManmukh(who follows mind) jeev(man) clings to Maya(illusion),<br \/>\nCycle of Life and Death awaits his kaaya(body)<br \/>\nGurmukh (who follows the Spiritual Master)jeev clings to &#8216;NAAM YUKTI'(chanting the<br \/>\nName),<br \/>\n   Hari&#8217;s Name is the food he eats<br \/>\n   Hari&#8217;s Name is the dress he<br \/>\n   wears<br \/>\n   Hari&#8217;s Name is the place he<br \/>\n   visits<br \/>\n Hari&#8217;s Name frees him from Yam&#8217;s(Lord of death) fear<br \/>\nChanting Hari&#8217;s Name is the gift for the Lord<br \/>\nTo treasure which one comes to this world<br \/>\nLife is thus the preparation to attain death<br \/>\nDeath is thus the beginning and not an end<\/p>\n<p>Radhika krpa dd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2259598cd5b4aaf_o.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Radhikakrpa devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Hari&#8217;s Name frees him from Yam&#8217;s(Lord of death) fear Chanting Hari&#8217;s Name is the gift for the Lord To treasure which one comes to this world Life is thus the preparation to attain death<!--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-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}