{"id":466,"date":"2014-03-17T23:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:39:33","slug":"tears-would-fall-like-flower-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/tears-would-fall-like-flower-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears would fall like flower offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Art-Full is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gauras-Shower-of-Compassion-min-757x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Quote-Shastra is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>n\u012bl\u0101mbhodhi-ta\u1e6de sad\u0101 sva-virah\u0101-k\u1e63epanvita\u1e41 b\u0101ndhava\u1e41<br>\u015br\u012bmad-bh\u0101gavat\u012b kath\u0101 madiray\u0101 sa\u00f1j\u012bvayan bh\u0101ti ya\u1e25<br>\u015br\u012bmad-bh\u0101gavata\u1e41 sad\u0101 sva-nayan\u0101\u015bru-p\u0101yanai\u1e25 p\u016bjayan<br>gosv\u0101mi-prabaro gad\u0101dhara-vibh\u016br-bh\u016by\u0101t mad-ek\u0101-gati\u1e25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the shore of the broad blue ocean, Gad\u0101dhar Pa\u1e47\u1e0dit used to read\u00a0\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam\u00a0to \u015ar\u012b Chaitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, who was suffering from the great internal pain of separation from Himself (K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a).<br>\u00a0Gad\u0101dhar Pa\u1e47\u1e0dit supplied the wine of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-l\u012bl\u0101 to intoxicate his afflicted friend and give Him relief.\u00a0As he read, tears would fall from his eyes like flower offerings onto the pages of\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam.\u00a0May the pleasure of that brilliant personality, Gad\u0101dhar Pa\u1e47\u1e0dit, the best of the Gosw\u0101m\u012bs, be my only object in writing this book.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Sw\u0101m\u012b B.R \u015ar\u012bdhar<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n\u012bl\u0101mbhodhi-ta\u1e6de sad\u0101 sva-virah\u0101-k\u1e63epanvita\u1e41 b\u0101ndhava\u1e41\u015br\u012bmad-bh\u0101gavat\u012b kath\u0101 madiray\u0101 sa\u00f1j\u012bvayan bh\u0101ti ya\u1e25\u015br\u012bmad-bh\u0101gavata\u1e41 sad\u0101 sva-nayan\u0101\u015bru-p\u0101yanai\u1e25 p\u016bjayangosv\u0101mi-prabaro gad\u0101dhara-vibh\u016br-bh\u016by\u0101t mad-ek\u0101-gati\u1e25 \u201cOn the shore of the broad blue ocean, Gad\u0101dhar Pa\u1e47\u1e0dit used to read\u00a0\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam\u00a0to \u015ar\u012b Chaitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, who was suffering from the great internal pain of separation from Himself (K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a).\u00a0Gad\u0101dhar Pa\u1e47\u1e0dit supplied the wine of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-l\u012bl\u0101 to intoxicate his afflicted friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}