{"id":12322,"date":"2014-02-06T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12322"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T11:40:54","slug":"actor-johnny-lever-receives-bhagavad-gita-as-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12322","title":{"rendered":"Actor Johnny Lever Receives Bhagavad-gita As It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/052014-02-06-12-3905.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Parijata devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nrsimhananda Das, ITV \u2013 Director, Krishna Mishra and writer Raj Thakur Spent the Christmas Day afternoon with the irrepressible Johnny Lever, a popular actor best known for his comedy roles in Indian cinema .  During their two hours together, Nrsimhananda Das asked Johnny what ambitions he had for rest of his life. He told him of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s great contribution of ISKCON starting at the age of 69.  Johnny is 58.  Johnny shared his spiritual awakening in Christianity, God&#8217;s voice to him, and the sudden acquisition of miraculous healing powers.  He spoke like a man possessed of great spiritual inspiration. <\/p>\n<p>Johnny has visited ISKCON Juhu for various functions organized by Bhakti Kala Kshetra at ISKCON Auditorium. He is fully supportive of the mission of the Hare Krishna Movement.  He is a true spiritual Christian not limited by race, religion, or creed.  Johnny was very appreciative of getting Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. He is certainly a friend of the devotees.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny mentioned \u2018I have great respect for your spiritual master and how he has spread spirituality all over the world. I was also pleased to hear that he had quite a clever  sense of humor\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/262014-02-06-12-4026.jpg\"\/><strong>By Parijata devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Johnny has visited ISKCON Juhu for various functions organized by Bhakti Kala Kshetra at ISKCON Auditorium. He is fully supportive of the mission of the Hare Krishna Movement.  He is a true spiritual Christian not limited by race, religion, or creed.  Johnny was very appreciative of getting Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. He is certainly a friend of the devotees.<!--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-12322","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\/12322","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=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}