{"id":3991,"date":"2007-07-30T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2007-07-30T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:20:00","slug":"chariots-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Chariots of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Submitted by Cintamani Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Lord your smile so freely given,<br \/>\nwill gladden every honest heart;<br \/>\nwherefrom is every longing driven,<br \/>\nwhen you appear upon your cart.<\/p>\n<p>Your glory and your great grandeur,<br \/>\ndelight the crowds you float above.<br \/>\nSpectacular display of splendour,<br \/>\nexpands the sea of causeless love.<\/p>\n<p>Ride out in mighty majesty,<br \/>\nride out into a dreaming world,<br \/>\nride out if this your pleasure be,<br \/>\nthat all your wondrous form behold.<\/p>\n<p>What unimagined beauty passing?<br \/>\nHave all the heavens descended here?<br \/>\nThe glories of the gods debasing,<br \/>\nthat they with us can but revere.<\/p>\n<p>How blessed the line with you long winding?<br \/>\nTheir destination your abode.<br \/>\nWith every step the knot unbinding,<br \/>\nthat held them fast in mortal mode.<\/p>\n<p>Bright and blissful your procession;<br \/>\nseen stark against a dismal age.<br \/>\nDelivering divine concession,<br \/>\nwith your eternal entourage.<\/p>\n<p>Long our lives in languid torpor,<br \/>\nwithin deep oceans of distress;<br \/>\nending with this sight of succour,<br \/>\nthe restless heart at last finds rest.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Jagannath, almighty God!<br \/>\nHow sweet is this your mystic form,<br \/>\nappearing from your own abode,<br \/>\nyou lead us to our long lost home.<\/p>\n<p>Krishna Dharma das<\/p>\n<p>Used with permission from www.krishnadharma.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/logomarcfratha_final.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Krishna Dharma das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Lord Jagannath, almighty God! How sweet is this your mystic form, appearing from your own abode, you lead us to our long lost home.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krishna-dharma-das","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}