{"id":1136,"date":"2006-09-06T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2006-09-06T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T23:02:02","slug":"power-of-harinam-prasadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Power of Harinam &#038; Prasadam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/harinam-Chandramauli-mharj.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Kapiladev das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was running the Food for Life program in South Africa. We were distributing 1 million plates of prasadam yearly along with mass harinams all over the countryside. The South African Police got in touch with us and asked us to become part of their Community Policing program. We would go out with them to troublesome neighborhoods and put on festivals with prasadam distribution, singing, dancing and sports events (the police would run the Sports events, we were in charge of everything else) One particularly bad area was called &#8220;Thousand Hills&#8221; Every day, there were murders, car hijackings, robberies.It was so bad that riot police were permanantly stationed there. We went in and had a big festival. Thousands of people joined the harinam. The colonel in charge of the area later told me that from that day, there was not one crime committed. Not only that, the local people caught all the criminals and brought them into the police station. It was completely extraordinary. Til this day Thousand Hills has remained a peaceful place. <\/p>\n<p>YS<\/p>\n<p>Kapiladev das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/harinam-Cxshandramauli-mhar.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Kapiladev das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The South African Police got in touch with us and asked us to become part of their Community Policing program. We would go out with them to troublesome neighborhoods and put on festivals with prasadam distribution, singing, dancing and sports events <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}