{"id":105303,"date":"2023-01-14T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T10:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=105303"},"modified":"2023-01-14T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T10:07:56","slug":"a-great-chess-celebrity-gets-srila-prabhupadas-bhagavad-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=105303","title":{"rendered":"A great chess celebrity gets Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drumila Dasa: Mystical Story! <\/p>\n

A friend of mine Jude Acer, a big name in the world of chess (tied Bobby Fisher when he was younger), told me a great chess celebrity was going to be here today. So I tried my best to make it, but was late, and he was already gone. I was having a particularly tough day, so bad that I turned back the other way to head back towards my car, (wasn\u2019t quiting, just changing my usually route) and I never ever do that, I always tough it out. Then I realized that he was at a different location, called the Envie Coffee Shop on Decatur. There\u2019s a Chess club that plays there regularly. <\/p>\n

I noticed they were doing a lot of filming with expensive cameras, and I was talking to one of the film crew and asking him if he could give him a Bhagavad-Gita on my behalf for him. He said he would try his best and we exchanged phone numbers. <\/p>\n

But then all of a sudden there he was, the chess \u2018Grandmaster\u2019 himself coming towards me, \u2018Hikaru Nakamura\u2019. <\/p>\n

He is ranked the number one chess player in America! And ranked number five in the world! He graciously excepted a Bhagavad-Gita from me, and was most humble and kind to allow me to take a picture of him with his Bhagavat Gita As it Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada! <\/p>\n

He was actually familiar with the book too! I could see that it was all Krishna\u2018s arrangement, that I turned back the other way, which, like I say, I never do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drumila Dasa: Mystical Story! A friend of mine Jude Acer, a big name in the world of chess (tied Bobby Fisher when he was younger), told me a great chess celebrity was going to be here today. So I tried my best to make it, but was late, and he was already gone. I was<\/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-105303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105303","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=105303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105305,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105303\/revisions\/105305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}