{"id":27413,"date":"2016-05-14T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/144331082231"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:15:12","slug":"may-14-iskcon-50-s-prabhupada-daily-meditations-satsvarupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=27413","title":{"rendered":"May 14. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.\nSatsvarupa&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o75h9dRkf11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o75h9dRkf11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o75h9dRkf11sbj0vuo1_500-136x187.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May 14. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Worship the Moments Spent with Swamiji.<br \/>\nI worship the moments spent with Swamiji in his apartment. On one particularly quiet night, I was the only one with him. The front doorbell rang and I went down to see who it was. It was Donald, a pudgy, bespectacled young man from uptown. He was probably the only non-hippie coming to the storefront at that time. He was a junior executive with the Pepsi-Cola company and he usually dressed in shirt and tie. When I met him at the door, he asked if he could come up to see the Swami. I replied, \u201cHe\u2019s alone tonight, so let me see if it is all right.\u201d I went back upstairs and said, \u201cIt is someone who wants to see you.\u201d<br \/>\nPrabhupada asked, \u201cWhat is he like?\u201d I told Prabhupada that Donald appeared very respectable; he was not a crazy person. When Prabhupada heard that, he gladly gave his permission and I went down to let Donald in. He came upstairs, took off his stylish raincoat, and went in to sit down with Swamiji in his room. I stayed in the other room where I had some typing to do. But I overheard Donald asking academic questions about the position of Lord Siva in relationship with Krishna. Donald later got initiated and was given the name Dvarakadhisa, but within a few years he had stopped coming to the temple.<br \/>\nRemembering and worshiping the minutes may be done by offerings of flowers, just as we do in arati. But I also have the feeling of shooting into the past like a sportsman hitting targets with a bow and arrow. The targets are waiting, all the minutes and hours of the past.<br \/>\nInevitably, we turn toward memories that we\u2019ve enjoyed many times. But that doesn\u2019t make them less important or less worshipable. If we remember a favorite moment once again, it may bring out new lights.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=8\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&#038;page=8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/ad15186106da864b1393069aebc2595d\/tumblr_o75h9dRkf11sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>May 14. ISKCON 50 &ndash; S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Worship the Moments Spent with Swamiji.<br \/>\nI worship the moments spent with Swamiji in his apartment. On one particularly quiet night, I was the only one with him. The front doorbell rang and I went down to see who it was. It was Donald, a pudgy, bespectacled young man from uptown. He was probably the only non-hippie coming to the storefront at that time. He was a junior executive with the Pepsi-Cola company and he usually dressed in shirt and tie. When I met him at the door, he asked if he could come up to see the Swami. I replied, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s alone tonight, so let me see if it is all right.&rdquo; I went back upstairs and said, &ldquo;It is someone who wants to see you.&rdquo;<br \/>\nPrabhupada asked, &ldquo;What is he like?&rdquo; I told Prabhupada that Donald appeared very respectable; he was not a crazy person. When Prabhupada heard that, he gladly gave his permission and I went down to let Donald in. He came upstairs, took off his stylish raincoat, and went in to sit down with Swamiji in his room. I stayed in the other room where I had some typing to do. But I overheard Donald asking academic questions about the position of Lord Siva in relationship with Krishna. Donald later got initiated and was given the name Dvarakadhisa, but within a few years he had stopped coming to the temple.<br \/>\nRemembering and worshiping the minutes may be done by offerings of flowers, just as we do in arati. But I also have the feeling of shooting into the past like a sportsman hitting targets with a bow and arrow. The targets are waiting, all the minutes and hours of the past.<br \/>\nInevitably, we turn toward memories that we&rsquo;ve enjoyed many times. But that doesn&rsquo;t make them less important or less worshipable. If we remember a favorite moment once again, it may bring out new lights.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=8\">http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=20490&amp;page=8<\/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-27413","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\/27413","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=27413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39455,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions\/39455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}