{"id":1817,"date":"2017-01-12T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:48:26","slug":"oh-you-are-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh, you are afraid?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kYcpIeI.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nFrom &#8220;MEMORIES OF SRILA PRABHUPADA&#8221; class <strong>by HH Krishna-kshetra Swami<\/strong><br \/>\n(October 1994)<\/p>\n<p>Story happens at L&#8217;Ecole de Architectur, Paris, July 1972:<\/p>\n<p>\tAt the end of one of lectures Srila Prabhupada asked for questions. One middle-aged man &#8211; apparently a Christian &#8211; stood up and said, &#8220;I am afraid there is no religiosity present here whatsoever!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tSrila Prabhupada responded immediately, with a look of genuine concern, &#8220;Oh, you are afraid?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tHis simple question so clearly cut to the core of the man&#8217;s ignorance that the man was left dumbfounded and simply sat down without a further word. By his simple, disarming question Srila Prabhupada communicated volumes. One felt how unfortunate is such a fearful, confused conditioned soul that he cannot take advantage of the pure transcendental teachings &#8211; the very essence of all religion &#8211; being delivered by a fully realized person full of compassion for such a fool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kYcpIeI.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/> Krishna &#8211; kshetra Swami:  At the end of one of lectures Srila Prabhupada asked for questions. One middle-aged man &#8211; apparently a Christian &#8211; stood up and said, &#8220;I am afraid there is no religiosity present here whatsoever!&#8221; Srila Prabhupada responded immediately, with a look of genuine concern, &#8220;Oh, you are afraid?&#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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","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=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35424,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/35424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}