{"id":12957,"date":"2014-06-24T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:38:49","slug":"we-are-their-good-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"We Are Their Good Fortune!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-24_10-00-21.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once on a morning walk in St James&#8217; Park in London (1972\/3) after passing a hippy sleeping on a park bench, Srila Prabhupada said &#8220;By good fortune they can all come to Krsna Consciousness&#8221;<br \/>\nWishing to understand further what His Divine Grace meant by &#8216;good fortune&#8217; I said;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Srila Prabhupada, we understand from your books and teachings that nothing happens by chance, can you please explain what you mean by &#8216;good fortune&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After walking on for about a minute, all of a sudden Srila Prabhupada stopped, turned and looked me directly in the face, and stated firmly<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are their good fortune&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this beautiful video you will see my favourite street kirtaneer, his Grace Govinda Prabhu, leading the distribution of this &#8216;good fortune&#8217; to thousands of West End visitors last night.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the many enthusiastic Vaisnavas who help every Saturday night to distribute the full colour booklet, On Chanting Hare Krsna.<\/p>\n<p>This most important little booklet is full of good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>It has an invitation to the two prominent London temples as well as Govinda&#8217;s Vegetarian Restaurant on the inside front cover. Plus a clear and straight forward explanation of;<\/p>\n<p>What is the Hare Krsna Movement<\/p>\n<p>Who is Srila Prabhupada<\/p>\n<p>What is real peace formula &#8211; written by Srila Prabhupada<\/p>\n<p>How and why one should Chant Hare Krsna &#8211; written by Srila Prabhupada<\/p>\n<p>And finally another short piece by Srila Prabhupada explaining the origins of the Hare Krsna Movement<\/p>\n<p>All in all it is the perfect introduction to the Krsna Consciousness Movement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n         <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQXAJR82p98?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-24_10-00-21.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-24_10-00-57.jpg\"\/><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once on a morning walk in St James&#8217; Park in London (1972\/3) after passing a hippy sleeping on a park bench, Srila Prabhupada said &#8220;By good fortune they can all come to Krsna Consciousness&#8221;<br \/>\nWishing to understand further what His Divine Grace meant by &#8216;good fortune&#8217; I said: &#8220;Srila Prabhupada, we understand from your books and teachings that nothing happens by chance, can you please explain what you mean by &#8216;good fortune&#8217; After walking on for about a minute, all of a sudden Srila Prabhupada stopped, turned and looked me directly in the face, and stated firmly: &#8220;We are their good fortune&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","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=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}