{"id":31422,"date":"2016-09-16T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31422"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:24:29","slug":"iskcon-50-gala-dinner-in-washington-d-c-i-was-standing-in-the-doorway-and-you-gave-me-a-beautiful-flower-which-is-still-blossoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31422","title":{"rendered":"ISKCON 50 Gala Dinner in Washington D.C. &#8211; \u201cI was standing in the doorway and you gave me a beautiful flower, which is still blossoming.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Jx3MuHlbrXU\/V9vWSqFLD1I\/AAAAAAAAe1Q\/8Ja7xNx_LAY\/s0\/2016-09-16_13-23-52.jpg\"  width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Madhava Smullen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Religious and Political Leaders Appreciate Srila Prabhupada at ISKCON 50 Gala Dinner in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The response from the VIPs to the evening was overwhelmingly positive, with many commenting that they had been unaware of the depth of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s scholarship, or the breadth of his contributions in spreading the Krishna tradition around the world. The ISKCON devotees present, meanwhile, were very inspired to see so many esteemed personalities appreciating ISKCON\u2019s contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found the event to be an unprecedented validation of Srila Prabhupada and his contributions to the world,\u201d says Rukmini devi dasi, one of Prabhupada\u2019s earliest female disciples. \u201cTo see so many important people appreciating him, chanting and dancing with their arms upraised, and thoroughly enjoying the experience, was just wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire article click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1AMZW8\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/1AMZW8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_FuCyAUNQzo\/V9vV9IJLGGI\/AAAAAAAAe1M\/lbYoDJDGkwE\/s0\/2016-09-16_13-22-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-99P-LVPVtIs\/V9vXw2u2hYI\/AAAAAAAAe1U\/txZfKalxBVo\/s0\/2016-09-16_13-30-09.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Madhava Smullen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Religious and Political Leaders Appreciate Srila Prabhupada at ISKCON 50 Gala Dinner in Washington D.C. The response from the VIPs to the evening was overwhelmingly positive, with many commenting that they had been unaware of the depth of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s scholarship, or the breadth of his contributions in spreading the Krishna tradition around the world. The ISKCON devotees present, meanwhile, were very inspired to see so many esteemed personalities appreciating ISKCON\u2019s contributions.  &#8211; I found the event to be an unprecedented validation of Srila Prabhupada and his contributions to the world,\u201d says Rukmini devi dasi, one of Prabhupada\u2019s earliest female disciples. \u201cTo see so many important people appreciating him, chanting and dancing with their arms upraised, and thoroughly enjoying the experience, was just wonderful.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-50","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422","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=31422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31437,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422\/revisions\/31437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}