{"id":53115,"date":"2017-11-14T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/167484107276"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:25:25","slug":"indradyumna-swami-this-morning-at-0930-we-took-braja-vallabhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=53115","title":{"rendered":"Cremation ceremony for Braja Vallabhi dasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_ozesv8guHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"353\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ozesv8guHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ozesv8guHb1sbj0vuo1_500-92x187.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cremation ceremony for Braja Vallabhi dasi.<br \/> Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday we had the cremation ceremony for Braja Vallabhi dasi on the bank of the Yamuna river. Three hundred devotees attended. Just as the fire began, a cow appeared and stayed with us for several hours. It was a sign of great auspiciousness. Devotees who live in Vrindavan are invited to her memorial service at 11 a.m. tomorrow ( Wednesday ) in the Balarama Hall at the Krsna Balarama Mandir. We will have kirtan and devotees will share their memories of Braja Vallabhi dasi. A sumptuous feast will be served at 2 p.m. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.<br \/> Govinda Swami: This morning at 09:30 we took Braja Vallabhi to the Yamuna.<br \/> First we visited Krishna Balaram Mandir where she could lay her head in obeisance to Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordship.<br \/> Then kirtan procession to the Yamuna.<br \/> The day was beautiful, sunny, with slight haze.<br \/> We walked along the parikrama marg, turned right at the last lane before Kesighat, stopped outside Radha Ramanji, crossed Gopinath Bazaar, Vamsi Vat, and on to the cremation ghat.<br \/> Saci Gaurasundara Dasa, and Saranga Thakur directed the rituals.<br \/> Braja Vallabhi was bathed in the Yamuna, and placed upon the funeral pyre, covered with auspicious substances and ghee.<br \/> Padmanabha Goswami came and offered maha prasadam items from Radha Ramanji.<br \/> Then her father, Sakhi Rai, lit the fire.<br \/> As we sat on the banks of the Yamuna, Ramai Pandit sang beautiful kirtans and we all joined the chanting.<br \/> The fire blazed, and consumed the mortal remains of Braja Vallabhi.<br \/> The ashes were placed in the Yamuna and the glowing embers were extinguished by Her dark waters.<br \/> All glories to Braja Vallabhi devi dasi.<br \/> All glories to her effulgent character, her enthusiastic service mood, and her deep faith and devotion to her guru maharaja.<br \/> Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br \/> Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare<br \/> (In the photo what she wrote in her fb page some time ago.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sdG6hSx.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2fda94fd4b89e0a5206222ffaf086382\/tumblr_ozesv8guHb1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Indradyumna Swami: This morning at 09:30 we took Braja Vallabhi to the Yamuna.<br \/>\nFirst we visited Krishna Balaram Mandir where sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53115","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\/53115","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53119,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53115\/revisions\/53119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}