{"id":100084,"date":"2023-04-20T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100084"},"modified":"2023-04-20T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:48:13","slug":"a-book-transforms-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100084","title":{"rendered":"A book transforms one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\">Krishna Das and I invited two young guys who bought a book to the temple of Villa Vrndavana. They came, stayed a while, and then we left in a week.<\/p>\n<p>After a year, we went back to the Villa with a group to do harinamas. I went to the dining room to eat prasadam and sat down with the Italian devotees. I saw a devotee, and his face looked familiar to me.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, \u201cDo I know you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He replied, \u201cDid you forget me? You came last year, you distributed a book to us and I stayed here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He began to follow the principles, chant the mantra, go to the morning program.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I again met him in Mayapur with a group of sankirtana devotees from Bulgaria. (He is from Bulgaria, and his guru, Kadamba Kanana Swami, in Villa Vrindavan asked him to join them in Mayapur.)<\/p>\n<p>He ran up to me while I was honoring prasadam and asked me, \u201cPrabhu, do you recognize me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d Because he was already shaved-up and in saffron cloth. He became so bright, but before that he was a hippy with long hair. Now he\u2019s a \u201chappy\u201d Hare Krsna!<\/p>\n<p>Sankirtana-yajna, ki jai!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kks-1-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\">Krishna Das and I invited two young guys who bought a book to the temple of Villa Vrndavana. They came, stayed a while, and then we left in a week. After a year, we went back to the Villa with a group to do harinamas. I went to the dining room to eat prasadam and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100085,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100084\/revisions\/100085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}