{"id":100360,"date":"2023-04-01T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100360"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:46:04","slug":"you-have-arabic-books-thats-my-mother-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100360","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou have Arabic books? That\u2019s my mother tongue.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bhagavad Gita\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bhagavad-gita.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 180px;\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\n    While distributing at Richland College in Dallas, I met a couple who came to my table enthusiastic to hear about the teachings of the Gita, which they saw on the table. Both of them had heard of it. I showed them the illustrations and explained a little. Then they became more enthusiastic to take one. The young lady was happy to take one and give a donation, but the young man said he would get it another time.<\/p>\n<p>\n    A half hour later they came back to the table. They had been reading it for that half hour, and the young man said, &#8220;This is so interesting that I want one now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n    Meanwhile the young lady was looking in my box of books. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m intrigued by all the books you have.&#8221; I told her a lot of them are in different languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n    As soon as I said Arabic, the young man said, &#8220;You have Arabic? That&#8217;s my mother tounge.&#8221; He&#8217;s from Saudi Arabia. So he received the Bhagavad Gita and an Arabic book, &#8220;Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers.&#8221; She also received more books.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Your servant,<br \/>\n    Vijaya Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bhagavad Gita\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bhagavad-gita.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 180px;\" title=\"\">While distributing at Richland College in Dallas, I met a couple who came to my table enthusiastic to hear about the teachings of the Gita, which they saw on the table. Both of them had heard of it. I showed them the illustrations and explained a little. Then they became more enthusiastic to take one.<\/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-100360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100360","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=100360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100361,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100360\/revisions\/100361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}