{"id":11740,"date":"2013-07-14T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11740"},"modified":"2013-08-10T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:44:17","slug":"devadasa-and-bhaktivinoda-thakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11740","title":{"rendered":"Devadasa and Bhaktivinoda Thakura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brijabasi das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is some confusion regarding the book \u201cDevad\u0101sa\u201d, which is ascribed to \u015ar\u012bla Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kura. I&#8217;m writing this keeping in mind \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da&#8217;s definition of truth: \u201cAlthough sometimes the truth is unpalatable, one should not refrain from speaking it. Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth.\u201d (Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, 10.4-5, purport). Thus with all humility and for the sake of such truth we should examine if the book was really penned by \u1e6ch\u0101kura Bhaktivinoda since the benefit from reading the words of the great \u0100c\u0101rya cannot be compared to the benefit we may get from any other book. <\/p>\n<p>The story of Devad\u0101sa was published in 1910 by an author named Ked\u0101ran\u0101tha Datta. If we look in the original bengali edition of the book we may become surprised that this Ked\u0101ran\u0101tha Datta was not actually the great mah\u0101-bh\u0101gavata Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava \u0101c\u0101rya \u1e6ch\u0101kura Bhaktivinoda. The original edition provides some information about the author and the places where the book can be had. <\/p>\n<p>Read the whole text in the embeded document below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dandavats.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fdevadasa_and_bhaktivinoda_thakura.doc&#038;embedded=true\" width=\"600\" height=\"780\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/042013-08-10-19-4404.jpg\"\/><strong>By Brijabasi das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> There is some confusion regarding the book \u201cDevad\u0101sa\u201d, which is ascribed to \u015ar\u012bla Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kura. I&#8217;m writing this keeping in mind \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da&#8217;s definition of truth: \u201cAlthough sometimes the truth is unpalatable, one should not refrain from speaking it. Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740","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=11740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}