{"id":90228,"date":"2020-10-09T19:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/631521252911218689"},"modified":"2020-10-18T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T13:38:46","slug":"krsna-brings-the-cows-and-cowherd-boys-back-to-lifeonce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=90228","title":{"rendered":"KRSNA BRINGS THE COWS AND COWHERD BOYS BACK TO LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/52b4565ad08ec921c8fa6b55b410eb85\/d425952086733a5d-18\/s500x750\/04f1f2eddc2f9f22d1b8b9c33298ca42be5d3735.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KRSNA BRINGS THE COWS AND COWHERD BOYS BACK TO LIFE<\/p>\n<p>Once, surrounded by His boyfriends, Krsna went without Balarama to the Yamuna River. At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the river water. But it had been contaminated with poison, and as soon as the cows and boys touched the poisoned water, they all lost consciousness and fell lifeless at the water\u2019s edge.<br \/>\nSeeing them in such a condition, Lord krsna, the master of all masters of mystic potency, felt compassion for these devotees of His, who had no Lord other than Him. Thus He immediately brought them back to life by showering His nectarean glance upon them.<br \/>\nRegaining their full consciousness, the cows and boys stood up out of the water and looked at one another in great astonishment. They realized that although they had drunk poison and died, simply by the merciful glance of Govinda they had regained their lives and stood up by their own strength.<\/p>\n<p>PAINTING BY DHRTI &#8211; DEVI DASI (1978)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/52b4565ad08ec921c8fa6b55b410eb85\/d425952086733a5d-18\/s500x750\/04f1f2eddc2f9f22d1b8b9c33298ca42be5d3735.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Once, surrounded by His boyfriends, Krsna went without Balarama to the Yamuna River. At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the river water. But it had been contaminated with poison, and as soon as the cows and boys touched the poisoned water, they all lost consciousness and fell lifeless at the water\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-90228","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\/90228","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=90228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90232,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90228\/revisions\/90232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}