{"id":217,"date":"2006-06-22T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2007-02-02T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:53:53","slug":"one-week-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"One week on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandty.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Visitors,<\/p>\n<p>It has been a week or so now since the launch of Dandavats and we have been overwhelmed at the response so far. At this stage we&#8217;ve had around 13,000 unique visits.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have commented that the Dandavats site fulfils a much needed vacuum in the devotee website market, naturally we hope that is the case and that Dandavats can continue to serve that vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for your articles and comments, they were all very thought provoking and have added to our understanding of the issues being discussed. I thought the suggestion by Madhumati devi about collective prayer among the GBC members, particularly in crisis situations, was very interesting and it is something I will pass on to the GBC members.<\/p>\n<p>As we know the GBC body is not infallible, just in case anyone is thinking like that! This is one of the reasons why Srila Prabhupada created a body of devotees, as opposed to installing one individual to run ISKCON. It is also of course the example that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja set. The clear advantage of having a body of devotees making decisions is that on balance their collective decision making will be more often right than wrong. The disadvantage of course is that decisions can take longer to be finalised and that can be a source of frustration for all concerned.<\/p>\n<p>In the lightening fast communication world that we now inhabit time is not always a commodity that we have in abundance. On the other hand rushed or not well thought out decisions can be more detrimental in the long term, as we have experienced in the past. Hence the suggestion of collective prayer when having to make decisions that will have a significant bearing on many lives was quite inspired.<\/p>\n<p>So again thank you for all your contributions and continued support, it is our pleasure to both read them and make them available to others by posting them on Dandavats.<\/p>\n<p>Hare Krsna.<\/p>\n<p>Praghosa dasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/34tted-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we know the GBC body is not infallible, just in case anyone is thinking like that! This is one of the reasons why Srila Prabhupada created a body of devotees, as opposed to installing one individual to run ISKCON. It is also of course the example that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja set. The clear advantage of having a body of devotees making decisions is that on balance their collective decision making will be more often right than wrong. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-praghosa-dasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}