{"id":11101,"date":"2012-12-12T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2012-12-12T02:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:36:41","slug":"feed-the-5000-dublin-sat-24th-nov-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11101","title":{"rendered":"Feed The 5,000 &#8211; Dublin Sat 24th Nov 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55274803?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ireland was known as the &#8220;Slaughterhouse of Europe&#8221;, due to its meat industry. Is it coincidental that for decades we have lived with war? In the words of George Bernard Shaw:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pray on Sundays that we may have light to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We are sick of war, we don&#8217;t want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So here came an opportunity to attempt to enlighten some poor souls through the distribution of Prasad and the Holy Names. So we filled Tribhuvanath prabhu&#8217;s van with devotees and cooking equipment and traveled from London to the Emerald Isle. All the vegetables were donated due to them being &#8220;ugly veg&#8221;, wrong shape, size or colour. The army came to help with the veg chopping and donated the use of their fridge van &#8211; to be honest it was minus 1 outside and 2 degrees warmer in the van, still health and safety rules must be followed.<\/p>\n<p>So we cooked subji, dal with veg, papadum and pickle for 6,000 people, just to make sure we hit the 5,000 target. The Mayor of Dublin came to give a hand, and as always the t.v. and newspapers came out for the action.<\/p>\n<p>Feeding the 5,000 is not a new concept. Back 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ had done it, which reminds me how one person upon seeing our Kirtan party remarked &#8220;Oh I am not into foreign religions!&#8221; I told him &#8220;Was Jesus Irish? Do you know why Jesus didn&#8217;t take birth in Ireland? Because he could not find 3 wise men!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We managed to go out on four Hari Namas and as usual we ended up on the &#8220;Anti Austerity&#8221; demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/032012-12-12-02-3503.jpg\"\/><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Ireland was known as the &#8220;Slaughterhouse of Europe&#8221;, due to its meat industry. Is it coincidental that for decades we have lived with war?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101","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=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}