{"id":30463,"date":"2016-08-14T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/148930728986"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:24:16","slug":"gita-nagari-retreat-to-explore-varnashrama-dharma-sivarama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=30463","title":{"rendered":"Gita Nagari Retreat to Explore Varnashrama Dharma. \nSivarama&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_obwk0nDNQR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_obwk0nDNQR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_obwk0nDNQR1sbj0vuo1_500-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gita Nagari Retreat to Explore Varnashrama Dharma. <br \/>\nSivarama Swami, who is behind the New Vraja Dhama farm in Hungary which has been vastly successful in both spiritual and simple living efforts, will give a talk entitled \u201cVarnashrama: Why devotees need to adopt it, and the first steps to doing so.\u201d<br \/>\nHe\u2019ll discuss Prabhupada\u2019s statements on the feasibility of Varnashrama today, the qualities devotees must develop in order to be eligible for the Varnashrama system, and the challenges in changing to a lifestyle that\u2019s very different from that of the world around us.<br \/>\nDevamrita Swami will speak about the Amish as an example of a different social order sustaining over time in modern America and Canada.<br \/>\nAbhirama Das will share personal instructions Prabhupada gave him on Varnashrama, and talk about co-existing with other communities, like the Amish, who have similar simple-living-based lifestyles. He\u2019ll also talk about how to get started on Varnashrama, and how to develop a Varnashrama community connected to a city preaching center, something he hopes to do himself with his New York City-based Harinama ashram.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Zs1z3E\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Zs1z3E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/0a120ea703da4458da8f05665c252470\/tumblr_obwk0nDNQR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Gita Nagari Retreat to Explore Varnashrama Dharma. <br \/>\nSivarama Swami, who is behind the New Vraja Dhama farm in Hungary which has been vastly successful in both spiritual and simple living efforts, will give a talk entitled &ldquo;Varnashrama: Why devotees need to adopt it, and the first steps to doing so.&rdquo;<br \/>\nHe&rsquo;ll discuss Prabhupada&rsquo;s statements on the feasibility of Varnashrama today, the qualities devotees must develop in order to be eligible for the Varnashrama system, and the challenges in changing to a lifestyle that&rsquo;s very different from that of the world around us.<br \/>\nDevamrita Swami will speak about the Amish as an example of a different social order sustaining over time in modern America and Canada.<br \/>\nAbhirama Das will share personal instructions Prabhupada gave him on Varnashrama, and talk about co-existing with other communities, like the Amish, who have similar simple-living-based lifestyles. He&rsquo;ll also talk about how to get started on Varnashrama, and how to develop a Varnashrama community connected to a city preaching center, something he hopes to do himself with his New York City-based Harinama ashram.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Zs1z3E\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/Zs1z3E<\/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-30463","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\/30463","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=30463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38010,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463\/revisions\/38010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}