{"id":80318,"date":"2019-11-26T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T09:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=80318"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T09:49:12","slug":"indian-president-visits-iskcon-temple-in-manila-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=80318","title":{"rendered":"Indian President Visits ISKCON Temple in Manila, Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Indravali Devi Dasi <\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MbVSNyV.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nISKCON Sri Sri Radha Madhava Mandir Temple President Mahendra Das (wearing white kurta) welcomes President  Ram Nath Kovind  of India and his entourage by putting chandan on their foreheads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/c8bmlSD.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPresident Kovind receives maha fruits from the altar at ISKCON Manila<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Ram Nath Kovind President of India and his wife Savita Kovind visited the temple of ISKCON Sri Sri Radha Madhava Mandir in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines in the afternoon on October 20th, 2019.<br \/>\nThis was the President\u2019s first visit to the Philippines and devotees were jubilant about being able to host him.<br \/>\nWhat made Ram Nath Kovind\u2019s visit truly auspicious is that it happened during the month of Kartik, which is considered to be a special period of the year for deepening one\u2019s love for Krishna.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oOxo6d9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n President  Kovind receives a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada<\/p>\n<p>President Kovind and his entourage offered ghee lamps to Lord Damodar and to Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madhava. Devotees gave them maha sweets, which are offered to the Deities, a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, other books, as well as photos of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madhava.<\/p>\n<p>Find them here: <a href=\"https:\/\/is.gd\/qi8YY4\">https:\/\/is.gd\/qi8YY4<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FIndravalidevidasi108%2Fposts%2F10215947768348882&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MbVSNyV.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MbVSNyV.jpg\" \/>His Excellency Ram Nath Kovind President of India and his wife Savita Kovind visited the temple of ISKCON Sri Sri Radha Madhava Mandir in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines in the afternoon on October 20th, 2019.<br \/>\nThis was the President\u2019s first visit to the Philippines and devotees were jubilant about being able to host him.<br \/>\nWhat made Ram Nath Kovind\u2019s visit truly auspicious is that it happened during the month of Kartik, which is considered to be a special period of the year for deepening one\u2019s love for Krishna.<\/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-80318","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\/80318","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=80318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80320,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80318\/revisions\/80320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}