{"id":19754,"date":"2020-09-30T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=19754"},"modified":"2020-09-30T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:47:11","slug":"on-the-banks-of-the-yamuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/on-the-banks-of-the-yamuna\/","title":{"rendered":"On the banks of the Yamuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">In gamcha I chant Hare Krishna, the names of the Lord and His associates, on the banks of the #Yamuna sitting on the warm sand. The sun is coming down towards the horizon and it\u2019s not so hot anymore. The devotees my associates are taking bath in the dark Yamuna waters. Yamuna is dark, Ganga is like silver hued.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">One of my friends chants his evening gayatri.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Not far young brahmacaris of some Gaudiya Math take bath and meditate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s so peaceful, so beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Few hundred metres away kids jump in the waters from Keshi Ghat towers, playing and making noise.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Big buffaloes emerge from the waters after having crossed the river. It;s not so deep in this season. They peacefully look at us and pass us by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">On our back Imli Tal and Nityananda Vat. Only few hundreds years ago Lord Caitanya was here, chanting the name of Radha Krishna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s divine, it\u2019s blissful.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Thanks, thanks, thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">______________________<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isvara.org\/\">Please visit our web site www.isvara.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In gamcha I chant Hare Krishna, the names of the Lord and His associates, on the banks of the #Yamuna sitting on the warm sand. The sun is coming down towards the horizon and it\u2019s &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/on-the-banks-of-the-yamuna\/\" aria-label=\"On the banks of the Yamuna\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:28:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}