{"id":45514,"date":"2017-04-29T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=45514"},"modified":"2017-04-29T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T09:54:47","slug":"this-is-how-the-chandan-yatra-was-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=45514","title":{"rendered":"This is how the Chandan Yatra was begun !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o5973weV5k1sbj0vuo1_1280.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"545\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o5973weV5k1sbj0vuo1_1280.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o5973weV5k1sbj0vuo1_1280-247x187.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long long ago appeared a Lord\u2019s devotee<br \/>\nFamous was he for his serving attitude and purity<br \/>\nMadhvendra Puri was his name<br \/>\nIn his dream Lord Gopal came<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am suffocated in jungle beneath<br \/>\nPlease excavate so that I can breathe<br \/>\nTo relief from this heat, bring sandalwood from Malaya hill<br \/>\nAnd smear it all over my body\u201d-with him Lord shared his will<\/p>\n<p>When Madhvendra got up from sleep<br \/>\nHis desire to please the Lord was very deep<br \/>\n Headed towards Puri when he reached Gopinath temple<br \/>\nTwelve pots of kheer, in front of Deity Pujari did assemble<\/p>\n<p>To taste the kheer was his little desire<br \/>\nFor the same his Gopal can admire<br \/>\nHe realized an offence he has been committing<br \/>\nBy trying to think of tasting the Lord\u2019s offering<\/p>\n<p>Thinking this way, from Gopinath temple, he left<br \/>\nHe chanted and chanted in a land bereft<br \/>\nAt night, in the pujari\u2019s dream the Lord appear<br \/>\nAsked him to steal the kheer for his devotee so dear<\/p>\n<p>The Lord instructed to take to Madhvendra Puri<br \/>\nIn all surprise and fear the Pujari did agree<br \/>\nHonoring by MadhvendraPuri the same kheer pot<br \/>\nWith tears in his eyes, he realized the mercy of His Lord<\/p>\n<p>He got up from his sleep the very next day<br \/>\nThe news of Kheer Chor Gopinath was all along the way<br \/>\nThe Pujari took him to Jagannath Puri\u2019s king<br \/>\n37kilos of sandalwood the king did bring<\/p>\n<p>By serving the devotee, the king got satisfied<br \/>\nIn this way, everyone associated got deeply purified<br \/>\nTaking leave Madhvendra Puri set about his place<br \/>\nIn a dream, he saw Lord Gopal\u2019s beautiful face<\/p>\n<p>Applying chandan to Gopinath or Me is same<br \/>\nIt is nothing but a difference of mere name<br \/>\nTo Gopinath MadhvendraPuri applied chandan<br \/>\nThis is how the Chandan Yatra was begun<\/p>\n<p>By Bhakta Rohit Ahuja(VANI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/f074f5fd807ca50878030d91276de7ab\/tumblr_o5973weV5k1sbj0vuo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Bhakta Rohit Ahuja: Long long ago appeared a Lord\u2019s devotee Famous was he for his serving attitude and purity Madhvendra Puri was his name In his dream Lord Gopal came<\/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-45514","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\/45514","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=45514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45517,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514\/revisions\/45517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}