{"id":69781,"date":"2022-02-14T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69781"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:11:44","slug":"2news-from-the-walking-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69781","title":{"rendered":"Poetry from the Walking Monk &#8211; *BEST AVATAR*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/FACEBOOKCOVERGLOWSATacopy.jpgpy_.jpg\" width=\"1160\" height=\"429\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FACEBOOKCOVERGLOWSATacopy.jpgpy_.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FACEBOOKCOVERGLOWSATacopy.jpgpy_-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FACEBOOKCOVERGLOWSATacopy.jpgpy_-280x104.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-color:white; position:relative; height:15px;  margin-top: -20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-tG5gv904FAI\/W5TYjZED9VI\/AAAAAAAAmlE\/r0KN-yHV-tgo4HvPJhwsFaOT2maese-FACHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-09_10-23-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><!-- --><\/p>\n<div id=\"white\" style=\"background-color:white; position:relative; margin-bottom: -60px;\"><center>I am a disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and I became a monk of the Hare Krishna order in 1973. My teacher gave me the spiritual name, Bhaktimarga Swami, which means &#8220;the path of devotion&#8221;. Of course, this fits right in with my avid promotion of walking adventures as a way to connect with the Divine and lead a more care-free \/ car-free lifestyle. It is a great joy to share these adventures in both Canada and abroad with you via my daily blog. <\/center><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wakeletEmbed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"760px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.wakelet.com\/wakes\/564939a5-ae29-4c01-bf15-dd9cadcc78af\/list?hide-cover=1&#038;hide-description=1&#038;hide-title=1\"style=\"border: none\" margin-bottom: -80px; allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><!-- Please only call https:\/\/embed-assets.wakelet.com\/wakelet-embed.js once per page --><script src=\"https:\/\/embed-assets.wakelet.com\/wakelet-embed.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-color:white; position:relative; margin-top: -20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-tG5gv904FAI\/W5TYjZED9VI\/AAAAAAAAmlE\/r0KN-yHV-tgo4HvPJhwsFaOT2maese-FACHMYCw\/s0\/2018-09-09_10-23-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<!--<script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/blogspot\/ytgGc?format=sigpro\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ><\/script><!-- --><br \/>\n<!--<script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BhaktimargaSwamithewalkingmonkInstagramPhotosAndVideos?format=sigpro\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ><\/script><!-- --><br \/>\n<!--<script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BhaktimargaSwamithewalkingmonkInstagramPhotosAndVideos?format=sigpro\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ><\/script><!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cns72lJ.jpeg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I consider myself to be in good hands\u2014God&#8217;s\u2014when trekking a trail. Despite the mild weather of today and the willingness to experience the +3\u00b0C, destiny had it that I was to be temple-bound all day long.  For me the high point of the day entailed the morning discussions at the Bhagavatam class led by Hara Kumar on yogis who took to spontaneous combustion.<\/p>\n<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-69781","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\/69781","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=69781"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96715,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69781\/revisions\/96715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}