{"id":66395,"date":"2018-09-12T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/178004362446"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:28:30","slug":"giriraj-swami-yesterday-was-gunagrahi-maharajas-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=66395","title":{"rendered":"Giriraj Swami: Yesterday was Gunagrahi Maharaja\u2019s memorial&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pexufiVOXT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pexufiVOXT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pexufiVOXT1sbj0vuo1_500-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Giriraj Swami: Yesterday was Gunagrahi Maharaja\u2019s memorial program in Vrindavan, and I wrote him the following letter:<br \/>\nMy dear Gunagrahi das Goswami Maharaja,<br \/>\nPlease accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to your lifelong service to him, and to your divine departure to his lotus feet.<br \/>\nWhen you were leaving Dallas to go to India in the face of your cancer, you gave me the opportunity to see you off.<br \/>\nWhen you were traveling in India and dealing with so many issues and developments, you gave me the opportunity to communicate with you regularly.<br \/>\nWhen you returned to Vrindavan to stay, you allowed me to accommodate you and your staff in my house in Raman Reti, where you instituted your wonderful nightly kirtans, and in other places in my charge.<br \/>\nAnd when you were ready to leave your body, you gave me the opportunity to serve you indirectly when you moved to the Bhaktivedanta Hospice, which I helped establish.<br \/>\nNow you have gone to Srila Prabhupada, to serve him and his lords, and I pray that you will give me the opportunity to serve you there too.<br \/>\nMaharaja, I love you.<br \/>\nHare Krishna.<br \/>\nWith appreciation, gratitude, and love,<br \/>\nyour eternal, aspiring servant,<br \/>\nGiriraj Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/03479cbf07e525c3663cb839d5232ba1\/tumblr_pexufiVOXT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Giriraj Swami: Yesterday was Gunagrahi Maharaja&rsquo;s memorial program in Vrindavan, and I wrote him the following letter:<br \/>\nMy dear Gunagrahi das Goswami Maharaja,<br \/>\nPlease accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to your lifelong service to him, and to your divine departure to his lotus feet.<br \/>\nWhen you were leaving Dallas to go to India in the face of your cancer, you gave me the opportunity to see you off.<br \/>\nWhen you were traveling in India and dealing with so many issues and developments, you gave me the opportunity to communicate with you regularly.<br \/>\nWhen you returned to Vrindavan to stay, you allowed me to accommodate you and your staff in my house in Raman Reti, where you instituted your wonderful nightly kirtans, and in other places in my charge.<br \/>\nAnd when you were ready to leave your body, you gave me the opportunity to serve you indirectly when you moved to the Bhaktivedanta Hospice, which I helped establish.<br \/>\nNow you have gone to Srila Prabhupada, to serve him and his lords, and I pray that you will give me the opportunity to serve you there too.<br \/>\nMaharaja, I love you.<br \/>\nHare Krishna.<br \/>\nWith appreciation, gratitude, and love,<br \/>\nyour eternal, aspiring servant,<br \/>\nGiriraj Swami<\/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":[152],"class_list":["post-66395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395","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=66395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66396,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66395\/revisions\/66396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}