{"id":88207,"date":"2020-08-09T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88207"},"modified":"2020-08-09T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:05:33","slug":"lord-balarams-appearance-day-london-3rd-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88207","title":{"rendered":"Lord Balaram\u2019s Appearance Day, London 3rd August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MR0qHu2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parasuram das: In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto, First Chapter, when the sages headed by Saunaka inquired about the activities of Krsna, they said:<\/p>\n<p>krtavan kila karmanisaha ramena kesavahati-martyani bhagavangudhah kapata-manusah<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with Balarama, played like a human being, and so masked He performed many superhuman acts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lord&#8217;s appearance as a man bewilders the foolish<\/p>\n<p>Devotees come together daily at Hampstead Heath park, North London, to perform Sankirtan, Prasad Distribution and Book Distribution. It is a relatively safe and relaxed place.<\/p>\n<p>Kirtan is led by HG Kishor prabhu and HG Govinda prabhu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsumeet.v.khullar%2Fvideos%2F10164188693025230%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A second team of devotees cooked a feast and distributed it door to door within the devotee community, and another 5,000 boxes of Prasad went out to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>So this sankirtana is all glorious. That is the blessings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. This is His blessing: simply by sankirtana in this age. It is confirmed in the Vedic literature, in Vedanta-sutra. Sabdad anavrtti. Anavrtti, liberation. Our present position is bondage. We are bound up by the laws of nature. We may foolishly declare independence-that is our foolishness-but actually we are bound up by the laws of nature. [Arrival Talk &#8212; Aligarh, October 9, 1976]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MR0qHu2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MR0qHu2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with Balarama, played like a human being, and so masked He performed many superhuman acts.<\/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-88207","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\/88207","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=88207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88208,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88207\/revisions\/88208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}