{"id":27739,"date":"2016-05-22T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T04:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/144736344601"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:24:18","slug":"may-22-iskcon-50-s-prabhupada-daily-meditations-satsvarupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=27739","title":{"rendered":"May 22. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.\nSatsvarupa&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o7kangmvR31sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o7kangmvR31sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o7kangmvR31sbj0vuo1_500-234x187.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May 22. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: The Unthinkable \u2013 \u201cWhat If?\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nPrabhupada struggled to leave India for America. It is a poignant drama: the preparation, the delay, the difficulties he had to undergo. What if something had happened to prevent him coming to us? Or as Prabhupada always pointed out, no one expected such an old man to embark on such an enterprise. Everyone retires at that age. Krishna and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura could have been sufficiently pleased by the path Prabhupada had already chosen, renouncing family and social life for the full-time service of Krishna. And yet if Prabhupada hadn\u2019t come, what would have become of us?<br \/>\nHe wrote and struggled to get donations to publish Back to Godhead in Delhi. Then he chose to reside in a little room in the Vamsi-Gopala temple in Vrndavana. Then he immerses himself in pure devotional service in the holy dhama in the Radha-Damodara Temple. But he thought, \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t people all over the world have the peace they are actually hankering for?\u201d He rarely received visitors, but stayed alone writing. He walked to visit the temples in the evening.<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:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/f4fc1992880b340d9f3f44d5a5b9437d\/tumblr_o7kangmvR31sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>May 22. ISKCON 50 &ndash; S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.<br \/>\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: The Unthinkable &ndash; &ldquo;What If?&hellip;&rdquo;<br \/>\nPrabhupada struggled to leave India for America. It is a poignant drama: the preparation, the delay, the difficulties he had to undergo. What if something had happened to prevent him coming to us? Or as Prabhupada always pointed out, no one expected such an old man to embark on such an enterprise. Everyone retires at that age. Krishna and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura could have been sufficiently pleased by the path Prabhupada had already chosen, renouncing family and social life for the full-time service of Krishna. And yet if Prabhupada hadn&rsquo;t come, what would have become of us?<br \/>\nHe wrote and struggled to get donations to publish Back to Godhead in Delhi. Then he chose to reside in a little room in the Vamsi-Gopala temple in Vrndavana. Then he immerses himself in pure devotional service in the holy dhama in the Radha-Damodara Temple. But he thought, &ldquo;Why shouldn&rsquo;t people all over the world have the peace they are actually hankering for?&rdquo; He rarely received visitors, but stayed alone writing. He walked to visit the temples in the evening.<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-27739","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\/27739","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=27739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39323,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions\/39323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}