{"id":50356,"date":"2017-08-30T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=50356"},"modified":"2017-08-31T21:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:40:34","slug":"becoming-instruments-for-mahaprabhus-mercy-a-blissful-and-productive-weekend-for-iskcon-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=50356","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Instruments for Mahaprabhu\u2019s Mercy; A Blissful and Productive Weekend for ISKCON Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/16NkvAQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vaishnava Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qGgKf8d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/xm8aiy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wAGd2op.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HyEHl9V.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/F8dwOTL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OWMLOKO.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<!--After everyone was thoroughly satisfied honoring prasadam, HH Bhakti Charu Swami and HG Locanananda Prabhu led an enlivening harinam all the way to Union Square Park where our picnic-goers joined HG Rama Raya Prabhu\u2019s daily harinam party.<!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/POGGcoR.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Vaishnava Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> On Sunday, August 27th, a beautiful sunny day in New York City, congregation members of the ISKCON Brooklyn Hare Krishna temple and other sangas gathered in Tompkins Square Park for a Community Picnic. The day started off with HH Chandrasekhar Swami leading an upbeat kirtan in the north end of the park. The mrdanga, karatalas and chanting could be heard from outside the park, even from the south side- even though a large Jazz festival was getting ready for their afternoon program, and we had no amplification! A large group of devotees had already gathered and were chanting when HH Bhakti Charu Swami and HG Hansarupa das arrived, and the kirtan\u2019s momentum picked up.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356","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=50356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50432,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50356\/revisions\/50432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}