{"id":44877,"date":"2019-04-13T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=44877"},"modified":"2019-04-13T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:13:48","slug":"the-pastimes-of-ramachandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=44877","title":{"rendered":"The Pastimes Of Ramachandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2017-04-07_18-45-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The avatara came as Ramachandra<br \/>\nScion to the dynasty of Raghukula<br \/>\nHe is ever seen with Laxmi as Sita,<br \/>\nLaxman and Hanuman, His servitor  <\/p>\n<p>Maryada purushottam, the best of humans<br \/>\nEngaging with citizens, rsis and demons<br \/>\nTreated the needy and poor mercifully<br \/>\nDespatched rogues and demons swiftly      <\/p>\n<p>Rama spent fourteen years in desolation<br \/>\nWith Laxman and Sita, in deportation<br \/>\nSeparated from the luxuries of the city<br \/>\nStoically enduring poverty and paucity   <\/p>\n<p>The demon Ravana fancied mother Sita<br \/>\nKidnapped the one steeped in pativrata<br \/>\nWhile Sita repelled advances of Ravana<br \/>\nHanuman found her, and Ram beset Lanka   <\/p>\n<p>Ravana spurned counsel for Sita\u2019s return<br \/>\nFought back, but his tactics were in vain<br \/>\nMany warriors on both sides lost their life<br \/>\nRam slew Ravana and saved His dear wife <\/p>\n<p>Exile over, Ram ruled Ayodhya kingdom<br \/>\nReigning with grace, justice and wisdom<br \/>\nHis life is a paragon of sacrifice and duty<br \/>\nHis beatific pastimes validate His divinity <\/p>\n<p>Often in this event filled historical narration<br \/>\nRama seems unable to overcome His situation<br \/>\nThe Lord appeared to be fallible, almost mortal<br \/>\nThough Krsna or Visnu is eternally immortal \u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>Gautam Saha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2017-04-07_18-45-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pEmmL58.jpg\" \/>Gautam Saha: The avatara came as Ramachandra  Scion to the dynasty of Raghukula He is ever seen with Laxmi as Sita,  Laxman and Hanuman, His servitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44877","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\/44877","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=44877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73770,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions\/73770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}