{"id":20424,"date":"2015-10-13T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2015-10-13T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:09:34","slug":"reflecting-on-half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20424","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Half a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read it in a pdf format: <a href=\"http:\/\/iskcon50.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Reflections3.pdf\">http:\/\/iskcon50.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Reflections3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the images below to see them larger<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-B750b7u6BC0\/VhzT9x0gM2I\/AAAAAAAAVEQ\/qTNK4cGQwNk\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-50-37.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-B750b7u6BC0\/VhzT9x0gM2I\/AAAAAAAAVEQ\/qTNK4cGQwNk\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-50-37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-HHJn6WM8QVU\/VhzULEHtTZI\/AAAAAAAAVEY\/vbI1saMKfwQ\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-51-34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-HHJn6WM8QVU\/VhzULEHtTZI\/AAAAAAAAVEY\/vbI1saMKfwQ\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-51-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9CoHoN7N_wk\/VhzUWv83pGI\/AAAAAAAAVEg\/BRNTm8bWfO0\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-52-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9CoHoN7N_wk\/VhzUWv83pGI\/AAAAAAAAVEg\/BRNTm8bWfO0\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-52-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--g3glGHXXM8\/VhzUh6NKVBI\/AAAAAAAAVEo\/ByGtUB3aTQE\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-53-05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--g3glGHXXM8\/VhzUh6NKVBI\/AAAAAAAAVEo\/ByGtUB3aTQE\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-53-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4MOAiVoxPrA\/VhzUp74qPTI\/AAAAAAAAVEw\/U-WBl2UQHCs\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-53-38.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4MOAiVoxPrA\/VhzUp74qPTI\/AAAAAAAAVEw\/U-WBl2UQHCs\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-53-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/btg.krishna.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads5\/2014-12-11_09-29-12.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-qirLhFjxTt8\/VhzU8DNwPHI\/AAAAAAAAVE4\/NGYzGN-eQVY\/s0\/2015-10-13_11-54-56.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Tattvavit Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBhakta Tom,\u201d he said the first week, \u201cwe\u2019re going out to chant Hare Krishna. Please come with us.\u201d His sincerity encouraged me. He regularly organized the inspiring chanting and dancing on the streets. Tall and charismatic, he played a drum and led the singing. Once, on seeing Jayananda entering the temple, Prabhupada paused his lecture and said of him, \u201cJayananda looks like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Yes! He was tall and stout and strong. Caitanya Mahaprabhu.\u201d Sri Caitanya benevolently gave humanity a dispensation, five hundred years ago, to chant Krishna\u2019s names as the sufficient means of spiritual deliverance. Just a recipient of the grace of Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya, I lacked any further qualifications to join the Hare Krishna movement. <!--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-20424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424","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=20424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20429,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions\/20429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}