{"id":24556,"date":"2025-07-07T02:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=24556"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T10:44:16","slug":"ghantasila-pastime-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/ghantasila-pastime-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghantasila pastime (in English)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sankirtana2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25373 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sankirtana2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sankirtana2.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sankirtana2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">One day, to test Sri Syamananda Prabhu and Sri Rasikananda Prabhu, King Navina Kisora Dhal sent some stones of the shape and color of potatoes together with other foodstuffs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">As soon as he saw those stones, Rasikananda understood the real intentions of the king. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He used the stones in different vegetable preparations and then offered it all to Krishna\u2019s deity, and everything tasted great. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Because he cooked (ghanta) the stones (sila) like potatoes, that place became known as Ghantasila, nowadays situated near Tata Nagar, Jharakhanda, and testifies to the transcendental pastimes of Rasikananda Prabhu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cSyamananda, the Joy of Radharani\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/syamananda-the-joy-of-radharani-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, to test Sri Syamananda Prabhu and Sri Rasikananda Prabhu, King Navina Kisora Dhal sent some stones of the shape and color of potatoes together with other foodstuffs. As soon as he saw those stones, &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/ghantasila-pastime-in-english\/\" aria-label=\"Ghantasila pastime (in English)\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":25373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,156,189],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-24556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-db","category-kadacha-eng","tag-syamananda-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:36:55","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\/24556","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=24556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}