{"id":100525,"date":"2023-03-23T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100525"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:30:42","slug":"an-angered-student-finds-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=100525","title":{"rendered":"An angered student finds a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vijaya-prabhu.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He saw my sign: Meditation, Yoga and Philosophy, then, from a distance he shouted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHIS IS WHAT I NEED! THIS IS WHAT I NEED! ANGER IS EATING ME UP.\u201d Then he came to the book table looking for help.<\/p>\n<p>I told him, \u201cThe reason you feel so much anger is because you\u2019re thinking you\u2019re something you aren\u2019t. This body \u2013 I pointed to his body \u2013 is not who you are. You\u2019re the soul within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I showed him the nice painting of the saintly person seeing the soul in the brahmana, the cow, the elephant, the dog, and the dog-eater.<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cWhen you understand you\u2019re the soul, different from the body, you\u2019ll not only be friendly to people but kind to all living entities. Wouldn\u2019t that be nice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThat would be great. And this book teaches me how to be like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I responded, \u201cYes, it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He gave a nice donation, and I invited him to visit a devotee\u2019s home that has been turned into a bhakti center, where newcomers can hear about Krsna.<\/p>\n<p>This took place at a university in Dallas Texas. The students in Dallas are the most receptive students I\u2019ve found anywhere, I\u2019m going to miss this place.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving soon to Denver, San Diego, Los Angeles, Australia, India, South America etc.<\/p>\n<p>Your servant,<br \/>\nVijaya Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vijaya-prabhu.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/>He saw my sign: Meditation, Yoga and Philosophy, then, from a distance he shouted: \u201cTHIS IS WHAT I NEED! THIS IS WHAT I NEED! ANGER IS EATING ME UP.\u201d Then he came to the book table looking for help. I told him, \u201cThe reason you feel so much anger is because you\u2019re thinking you\u2019re something<\/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-100525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100525","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=100525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100526,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100525\/revisions\/100526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}