{"id":28494,"date":"2016-06-12T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T08:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/145795196986"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:59:31","slug":"profound-knowledge-made-someone-a-book-distributorvijaya-dasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=28494","title":{"rendered":"Profound Knowledge Made Someone a Book Distributor!\nVijaya dasa:&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o8ngjtHczo1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o8ngjtHczo1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o8ngjtHczo1sbj0vuo1_500-268x187.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Profound Knowledge Made Someone a Book Distributor!<br \/>\nVijaya dasa: We have a nice farm in southeast Germany called Simhacalam. Lord Nrsimhadeva is the presiding deity. While taking prasada there, I asked a book distributor, Advaita Simha Dasa, how he came to Krsna.<br \/>\nAdvaita Simha said, \u201cGaur Mohan approached me, and I gave a donation for a Science of Self Realization. At first I thought it was a cult, so I just wanted to hear what they have to say. But after reading a few chapters I realized that this is very profound knowledge. A year later I was looking for more books by Srila Prabhupada in a bookstore. I was with a friend in the shopping area, and somehow we got separated. He then called me to ask where I was. I told him the bookstore; I said was looking for another one of those books like the one the monk had given me a year ago, but the store didn\u2019t have any.<br \/>\nMy friend said, \u2018Well, if you go outside the bookstore you\u2019ll see a monk there. Maybe he has what you\u2019re looking for.\u2019 I went out, and the same devotee that gave me the Science of Self Realization, Gaur Moha Prabhu, was there. I asked him whether he had more books by Srila Prabhupada.<br \/>\nHe had the Bhagavad-gita, so I gave a donation for that. He told me that there would be a talk on the Gita that evening and invited me. I went, and it was nice. Eventually I visited the temple and joined ISKCON. Now I\u2019m also a book distributor.\u201d The devotee that gave me the books was Gaur Mohan Prbhu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/d2e08bb05a4ca2f70f32269abf15ff08\/tumblr_o8ngjtHczo1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Profound Knowledge Made Someone a Book Distributor!<br \/>\nVijaya dasa: We have a nice farm in southeast Germany called Simhacalam. Lord Nrsimhadeva is the presiding deity. While taking prasada there, I asked a book distributor, Advaita Simha Dasa, how he came to Krsna.<br \/>\nAdvaita Simha said, &ldquo;Gaur Mohan approached me, and I gave a donation for a Science of Self Realization. At first I thought it was a cult, so I just wanted to hear what they have to say. But after reading a few chapters I realized that this is very profound knowledge. A year later I was looking for more books by Srila Prabhupada in a bookstore. I was with a friend in the shopping area, and somehow we got separated. He then called me to ask where I was. I told him the bookstore; I said was looking for another one of those books like the one the monk had given me a year ago, but the store didn&rsquo;t have any.<br \/>\nMy friend said, &lsquo;Well, if you go outside the bookstore you&rsquo;ll see a monk there. Maybe he has what you&rsquo;re looking for.&rsquo; I went out, and the same devotee that gave me the Science of Self Realization, Gaur Moha Prabhu, was there. I asked him whether he had more books by Srila Prabhupada.<br \/>\nHe had the Bhagavad-gita, so I gave a donation for that. He told me that there would be a talk on the Gita that evening and invited me. I went, and it was nice. Eventually I visited the temple and joined ISKCON. Now I&rsquo;m also a book distributor.&rdquo; The devotee that gave me the books was Gaur Mohan Prbhu.<\/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-28494","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\/28494","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=28494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38971,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28494\/revisions\/38971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}