{"id":87107,"date":"2020-07-05T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87107"},"modified":"2020-07-05T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:05:23","slug":"poem-dedicated-to-hh-bhakti-caru-maharaj-from-hh-bhaktimarga-swami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87107","title":{"rendered":"Poem dedicated to HH Bhakti Charu Maharaj from HH Bhaktimarga Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zKIbYEA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brother of Gentle Demeanor<br \/>\nBy Bhaktimarga Swami <\/p>\n<p>Oh Brother of gentle demeanor,<br \/>\nI am your irrefutable junior.<br \/>\nWhen I look at all you\u2019ve done,<br \/>\nNothing short of making that homerun,<br \/>\nI am humbled by your limitless energy.<br \/>\nAnd now you leave us that memory,<br \/>\nOf absolute conviction to go,<br \/>\nWhere a target receives a clean throw.<br \/>\nYou aim your desires so right,<br \/>\nAnd anchor turbulence at a fight.<br \/>\nYou offer a calm where there isn\u2019t,<br \/>\nAnd subdue a storm you see as incumbent.<br \/>\nYou go out of your way to cook for us,<br \/>\nAt no inconvenience and with no fuss.<br \/>\nLast time you sat with me at Pune\u2019s veranda.<br \/>\n(It could have been anywhere, even Uganda.)<br \/>\nYou took the time to comfort, offer assurance.<br \/>\nWhen confusion prevails you present balance.<br \/>\nYou are a gentleman so rare to find.<br \/>\nEven ruffians in your presence become kind.<br \/>\nYou serve food daily to many, many children,<br \/>\nFill bellies, fill hearts amounting to millions.<br \/>\nVast attention comes running to you,<br \/>\nEspecially when you put Prabhupada, centre in queue,<br \/>\nAnd set the tone with finesse and manners,<br \/>\nAt such time when inclusiveness matters.<br \/>\nThe world finds it hard that you\u2019re suddenly gone,<br \/>\nLike the sun that\u2019s up, then abruptly left for long-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zKIbYEA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zKIbYEA.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh Brother of gentle demeanor, I am your irrefutable junior. When I look at all you\u2019ve done, Nothing short of making that homerun, I am humbled by your limitless energy. And now you leave us that memory, Of absolute conviction to go, Where a target receives a clean throw.<\/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-87107","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\/87107","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=87107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87109,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87107\/revisions\/87109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}