{"id":948,"date":"2006-08-22T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2007-07-11T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T21:10:53","slug":"belfast-rathyatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Rathyatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photaqo29_25.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Kaunteya Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a young 18 year old I left Belfast with \u00a350 and a dream to hitch hike around the world. On the way I discovered India and her Holy sadhus at the 1965 Kumbha Mela. Life has never been the same since. Forty years later I returned to work in Belfast and there was Lord Jaganath riding on His cart through the streets of beautiful Belfast city. What a treat.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980 I had made a 16mm film about the Rathyatra in Calcutta and completed all the post production here in Ireland. There was a special loving feeling as I approached Lord Jaganaths cart. I knew that something special was about to happen. I was about to take hold of His rope and start pulling. It was simply an action of pure joy. I was alone in my thoughts no one at the Rathyatra knew me except Their Lordships.<\/p>\n<p>That young boy who left Ireland all those years ago had come home and there to greet him was Lord Chaitanya and Lord Jaganatha. I wondered at the thought of what it will really be like to actually go Back Home&#8230;Bact to Godhead. I had experienced a little taste that day and I can surely say, it is very very sweet.<\/p>\n<p>All Glories to Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo2sa5_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photsso26_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photodede27_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photzqzqo26_22.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Kaunteya Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> That young boy who left Ireland all those years ago had come home and there to greet him was Lord Chaitanya and Lord Jaganatha. I wondered at the thought of what it will really be like to actually go Back Home&#8230;Bact to Godhead. I had experienced a little taste that day and I can surely say, it is very very sweet.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congregational-development","category-kaunteya-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}