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By Mukunda Goswami<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a Chinese proverb that says, \u201cLittle drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.\u201d If the longest journeys begin with the first step, then at minimum that first step should be taken. Doing what I know I can do in my limited sphere of influence is extremely important. Every member of ISKCON can take the first step. <\/p>\n Many of us New Govardhanites hope that ISKCON\u2019s Golden Jubilee occasion (celebrating 50 years of ISKCON\u2019s existence) will not turn out to be a non-event. Each of us can to do something special, something extra, something small maybe, but something \u2013 to honour the Golden Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s movement, originally incorporated in New York in July of 1966.<\/p>\n Thinking \u201cbig\u201d should also be encouraged. Srila Prabhupada is known for saying that his only flaw was that he could not think small. Doing something magnificent globally is indeed a \u201cconsummation devoutly to be wished\u201d, in the words of Hamlet. <\/p>\n We have to dream, because dreams can come true. \u201cShoot the rhinoceros\u201d is a familiar refrain that can be dug out of our repertoire. The late Sridhar Swami once told us, \u201cIf it\u2019s difficult, it will take a long time; if its impossible, it will take a little longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a Chinese proverb that says, \u201cLittle drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.\u201d If the longest journeys begin with the first step, then at minimum that first step should be taken. Doing what I know I can do in my limited sphere of influence is extremely important. Every member of ISKCON can take the first step. Thinking \u201cbig\u201d should also be encouraged. Srila Prabhupada is known for saying that his only flaw was that he could not think small. Doing something magnificent globally is indeed a \u201cconsummation devoutly to be wished\u201d, in the words of Hamlet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals","category-iskcon-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286","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=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18288,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hare](\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XXqv_pTRPKU\/VZo3iFhPbzI\/AAAAAAAAQx4\/hwndaBPrxRk\/s0\/2015-07-06_10-08-42.jpg\")
By Mukunda Goswami<\/strong><\/p>\n