{"id":2900,"date":"2007-02-14T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2007-02-14T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T10:10:11","slug":"the-powerful-words-of-prabhupada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"The powerful words of Prabhupada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Suresvara dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Krsna&#8217;s mercy I found that no one could defeat me in any argument; no matter how educated they might be by material estimation. I spoke to a college professor once when I was selling books in Knoxville Tennessee. He said he was a scientist. He looked at my devotee dress and said our movement was just a bunch of sentimentalist &#8211; just dancing and chanting in the street. I stated something which I had read that Srila Prabhupada had spoken word-for-word: \u201cThis Krishna Consciousness is a science to understand what is the difference between a dead body and a living body\u201d. Nothing extraordinary about this statement, at least on the surface. But, when I said the words there was suddenly a mild thundering in the sky. The air crackled as if it was charged with electricity and the wind began to howl. Astonished, the professor looked at me and I looked at him. Both of us felt as if our hairs were standing on end. He said, \u201cGive me all those books, I must have those books!&#8221; I sold him 12 hardbound Bhagavad-gitas.<\/p>\n<p>your servant, Suresvara dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mall.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Suresvara dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Astonished, the professor looked at me and I looked at him. Both of us felt as if our hairs were standing on end. He said, \u201cGive me all those books, I must have those books!&#8221; I sold him 12 hardbound Bhagavad-gitas.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}