{"id":18065,"date":"2016-08-26T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T06:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=18062&amp;preview_id=18062"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T06:15:36","slug":"american-woman-immerses-herself-in-krishna-bhakti-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=18065","title":{"rendered":"American Woman Immerses Herself In Krishna Bhakti In Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ins_storybody\">\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Betul:\u00a0<\/b> An American woman has reportedly become so devoted to Lord Krishna that she has been living in Rukmini Balaji Mandir for the last two months, immersed in &#8216;bhakti&#8217; and oblivious to the world.A graphic designer from San Francisco, Angelique Boiteus, 35, has been a &#8216;Krishna bhakt&#8217; since 2012, said Sheonarayan &#8216;Sam&#8217; Verma, a Non-Resident-Indian (NRI) who built the Rukmani Balaji Mandir in Betul Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Verma, her devotion intensified over the years &#8212; much in line with the &#8216;Rasa&#8217;-filled tradition of Krishna bhakti in which the devotee gradually begins to view the god as his or her lover &#8212; drifting her increasingly away from her family and worldly life in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She now spends her time absorbed in her love for Krishna and doesn&#8217;t like to meet people,&#8221; Mr Verma said.<\/p>\n<p>Angelique now calls herself Anjali.<\/p>\n<p>The temple&#8217;s priest, Aseem Panda, said he has not known anyone else like this woman.<br \/>\n<span class=\"commented-out-html\"> TAG END { date: 07\/29\/16 } <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betul:\u00a0 An American woman has reportedly become so devoted to Lord Krishna that she has been living in Rukmini Balaji Mandir for the last two months, immersed in &#8216;bhakti&#8217; and oblivious to the world.A graphic designer from San Francisco, Angelique Boiteus, 35, has been a &#8216;Krishna bhakt&#8217; since 2012, said Sheonarayan &#8216;Sam&#8217; Verma, a Non-Resident-Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}