{"id":6275,"date":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/08\/australian-hind-temple-celebrates-janmashtami\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"australian-hind-temple-celebrates-janmashtami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/08\/australian-hind-temple-celebrates-janmashtami\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Hind Temple Celebrates Janmashtami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.svtsydney.org\">www.svtsydney.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, SVT, September 9, 2007: The Hindu temple here in Helensburgh celebrated Sri Krishna Janmashtami. Hundreds of devotees participated, chanting Bhagavad Gita Chapters 2 &#038; 15 and Vishnu Sahasranama, kathak dancing, children&#8217;s skit (Krishna, the Butter Thief) and bhajans.<\/p>\n<p>The temple will celebrate Ganesha Visarjana on September 16 with the usual festival (Mela) attracting thousands to enjoy the Ganesa pujas, cultural programs, foods and other stalls and the final procession to the shores of Pacific Ocean to immerse Ganesa, to beats of drums and chants of Ganpathy Bappa Moriya! See URL above for details. This is one of the largest Visarjana celebrations outside of India. Hindu devotees from all over the world are invited to pilgrimage to this great temple.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.svtsydney.org SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, SVT, September 9, 2007: The Hindu temple here in Helensburgh celebrated Sri Krishna Janmashtami. Hundreds of devotees,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}