{"id":85657,"date":"2022-11-17T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/618167745033469952"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:07:22","slug":"dear-bhagavatamwhen-there-is-no-other-glimmer-of-light-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=85657","title":{"rendered":"Dear Bhagavatam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/93bf01690c62fb5591a32be1d55ce15a4d4972eb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Bhagavatam!<br \/>\nWhen there is no other glimmer of light<br \/>\n And the clouds of illusion cover my power of sight <br \/>\nYour every word illuminates my path from within <br \/>\nAnd You give me the faith to let my journey begin <br \/>\nWhen the unceasing rain of this world starts <br \/>\nIt drips through the holes in the ceiling of our hearts <br \/>\nYet You embrace me in Your pages <br \/>\nUnder the protection and shelter of the great sages <br \/>\nI have given You my trust <br \/>\nAnd You have gently cleared my heart from dust <br \/>\nThe turn of each page gives me life like Krishna\u2019s loving gaze And for that, my dear Bhagavatam, I give You my praise <br \/>\nMay I surrender to each word <br \/>\nMay each pastime reveal the spiritual world <br \/>\nMay I spend my life being guided by You <br \/>\nBecause I realize that no one can love like You do <br \/>\nAs every lovingly devoted soul prays <br \/>\nWe learn and hear about how Krishna plays <br \/>\nI beg my mind never strays <br \/>\nAnd that my simple faith in You always stays<br \/>\nBy Mukundanghri Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/8e8edec367c96032d0ce2ff535d55cc6\/7235c5bb347518f7-d9\/s500x750\/93bf01690c62fb5591a32be1d55ce15a4d4972eb.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Dear Bhagavatam!<br \/>\nWhen there is no other glimmer of light<br \/>\n And the clouds of illusion cover my power of sight <br \/>\nYour every word illuminates my path from within <br \/>\nAnd You give me the faith to let my journey begin <br \/>\nWhen the unceasing rain of this world starts <br \/>\nIt drips through the holes in the ceiling of our hearts <\/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-85657","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\/85657","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=85657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103776,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85657\/revisions\/103776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}