{"id":22921,"date":"2015-12-27T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/136033295666"},"modified":"2017-01-27T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:00:50","slug":"december-27-iskcon-50-s-prabhupada-daily-meditations-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=22921","title":{"rendered":"December 27. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.Why&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o00h9domsp1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o00h9domsp1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o00h9domsp1sbj0vuo1_500-249x187.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>December 27. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: My Prabhupada. Everyone has their own Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada is an objective reality. And yet, we don\u2019t want to be told by someone, \u201cThis is exactly how you must feel about him, and this is what he wants from you.\u201d No, we want our own understanding of Prabhupada, because we have to surrender our own free will to him.  Therefore, dear Prabhupada, let me call you, \u201cMy Prabhupada.\u201d I don\u2019t mean \u201cpet Prabhupada\u201d or \u201cillusory Prabhupada.\u201d You, Srila Prabhupada, are the master, and you will tell me what to do. And yet I call you \u201cMy Prabhupada\u201d because you touched my heart in the beginning and you continue to do so.  When a devotee says, \u201cMy spiritual master, Prabhupada,\u201d that cry has to come from the self. It cannot be programmed into you by another person. Others may help by giving us Prabhupada\u2019s books and telling us about him, but ultimately, with our own hands, we have to reach out and hold on to his mercy.<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=3\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/30e0a9c158678c128a245a3c4312ecce\/tumblr_o00h9domsp1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>December 27. ISKCON 50 &ndash; S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: My Prabhupada. Everyone has their own Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada is an objective reality. And yet, we don&rsquo;t want to be told by someone, &ldquo;This is exactly how you must feel about him, and this is what he wants from you.&rdquo; No, we want our own understanding of Prabhupada, because we have to surrender our own free will to him.  Therefore, dear Prabhupada, let me call you, &ldquo;My Prabhupada.&rdquo; I don&rsquo;t mean &ldquo;pet Prabhupada&rdquo; or &ldquo;illusory Prabhupada.&rdquo; You, Srila Prabhupada, are the master, and you will tell me what to do. And yet I call you &ldquo;My Prabhupada&rdquo; because you touched my heart in the beginning and you continue to do so.  When a devotee says, &ldquo;My spiritual master, Prabhupada,&rdquo; that cry has to come from the self. It cannot be programmed into you by another person. Others may help by giving us Prabhupada&rsquo;s books and telling us about him, but ultimately, with our own hands, we have to reach out and hold on to his mercy.<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=3\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22921","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\/22921","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41529,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/41529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}