{"id":29219,"date":"2018-09-01T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/146992499741"},"modified":"2018-09-01T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:35:23","slug":"door-to-door-book-distribution-in-new-papatoetoe-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=29219","title":{"rendered":"Door to door book distribution in New Papatoetoe, New Zealand,…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Door to door book distribution in New Papatoetoe, New Zealand, brought me to the home of an elderly Indian fellow who was all too enthusiastic to see me. After presenting the books he quickly ran into another room and came back with 51 dollars cash and explained that this money was in the pocket of his brother\u2019s pants when he passed away some time ago. He was waiting for an opportunity to give it Krishna, so he eagerly gave it to me in exchange for some books. His friend, who was present during the conversation, was so moved by the exchange that she donated another 20 dollars, allowing them to take two Srimad Bhagavatams, two Bhagavad Gitas, two Isopanisads, one Searching for Vedic India, etc\u2026 even after I had left their home, she came back down the street with more money to buy some small books for her friends.
\nI was sharing a spot in Henderson with a Christian busker who was singing songs on his guitar and preaching from the bible. We maintained a congenial relationship by not speaking to each other, and things were moving along smoothly in this way. At one point he called me over and asked, \u201cAre you one of those monks?\u201d I said, \u201cYes, sir. We\u2019re all out here preaching about the Lord.\u201d We shared a short conversation about being completely dependent on the Lord\u2019s mercy to spread His glories around. As it turned out, he was a very simple fellow and probably less envious than myself. He suddenly interrupted the conversation by asking, \u201cDo you want some money?\u201d I said, \u201cSure, chip in a few dollars!\u201d, expecting him to give some small change. He quickly pulled 20 dollars out his own wallet, gave it to me and said, \u201cThe Lord told me to give this to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Door to door book distribution in New Papatoetoe, New Zealand, brought me to the home of an elderly Indian fellow who was all too enthusiastic to see me. After presenting the books he quickly ran into another room and came back with 51 dollars cash and explained that this money was in the pocket of his brother’s pants when he passed away some time ago. He was waiting for an opportunity to give it Krishna, so he eagerly gave it to me in exchange for some books. His friend, who was present during the conversation, was so moved by the exchange that she donated another 20 dollars, allowing them to take two Srimad Bhagavatams, two Bhagavad Gitas, two Isopanisads, one Searching for Vedic India, etc… even after I had left their home, she came back down the street with more money to buy some small books for her friends.<\/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-29219","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\/29219","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=29219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65950,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219\/revisions\/65950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}