{"id":4401,"date":"2007-09-26T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2007-09-26T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:35:45","slug":"in-praise-of-back-to-godhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"IN PRAISE OF BACK TO GODHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gokulananda das<\/strong><\/p>\n

I forever bow down
\nat the lotus feet
\nof Back To Godhead
\nSrila Prabhupada’s matchless gift
\nto the world
\nBorn of his oceanic compassion
\nto lead us out
\nof our dark night
\nInto the uplifting light of Godhead
\nYou are the great fruit
\nof his full surrender
\nTo the feet of his perfect master<\/p>\n

To spread the universal religion
\nof divine love
\nTo every town and village
\nbroadcasting the glories of Mahaprabhu
\nThe harbinger of His Golden Age
\nto give new hope
\nto suffering mankind<\/p>\n

Proclaiming the great Bhagavata revolution
\nYou spread the clarion call
\nof divine service
\nAnd awaken all of us lost souls
\nasleep in Maya’s embrace
\nTo our real life of blissful service
\nto Sri Krishna’s all-inclusive pleasure<\/p>\n

Spreading far and wide
\nthe torchlight of true knowledge
\nYou dissipate the ignorance
\ncovering our hearts
\nYou open our eyes
\nto the infinite beauty
\nOf Sri Govinda’s love
\nfor all who simply want Him<\/p>\n

O ever-fresh fountain
\nof immortal nectar
\nChurned from the ocean
\nof Vedic truth
\nLike a great Ganges flow of mercy
\npouring out from Srila Prabhupada’s
\npure heart and empowered lips
\nYou overflood the desert of this world
\nwith the soothing shower
\nof pure bhakti
\nDescending from Braja’s
\nunending festival of love.<\/p>\n

I forever bow down
\nat the lotus feet
\nof Back to Godhead
\nthe “backbone of the
\nHare Krishna movement”.<\/p>\n

Gokulananda das, ACBSP, Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"HareBy Gokulananda das<\/strong><\/p>\n

I forever bow down at the lotus feet of Back To Godhead Srila Prabhupada’s matchless gift to the world Born of his oceanic compassion to lead us out of our dark night Into the uplifting light of Godhead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gokulananda-das","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","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=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}