{"id":3273,"date":"2007-04-13T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T08:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2007-04-13T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T08:57:59","slug":"our-glorious-friend-and-inspiration-hg-suhotra-prabhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3273","title":{"rendered":"Our glorious friend and inspiration, HG Suhotra Prabhu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gokulananda das ACBSP, ISKCON Vancouver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish to share some brief words in honor of our glorious friend and Godbrother, HG Sahotra Prabhu. I had the good fortune of gaining his valued friendship while we served together in the USA with the BBT Library Party in 1975-76. I was always happy to go on japa walks with him to be with such a jovial devotee friend, as well as to hear his deeply analytical viewpoints.  I would often observe him walking about very seriously chanting his japa, while tightly carrying in his other hand one of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s Bhagavatams, like his &#8220;weapon of knowledge&#8221;. His favorite verse then was from the C.C.: &#8220;I am servant of Lord Caitanya, a servant of Lord Caitanya, a servant of the servant of Lord Caitanya&#8230;&#8221;. Also, during his discussions with the university professors, to convince them to also purchase the full set of Srila Parbhupada&#8217;s books, he would often proudly tell them towards the end: &#8220;I have also become a follower of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  His deep exploration of Gaura-vani, which he so powerfully shared during his brilliant classes, has thus attracted the Lord&#8217;s special mercy to allow him to peacefully depart in His Gaura Dhama. His lifetime of stalwart service to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga has been a glorious example for all to emulate. Thank you my beloved friend Sahotra Prabhu for your sincere kindness and uplifting association.<\/p>\n<p> Gratefully, Gokulananda das ACBSP, ISKCON Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bds014.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Gokulananda das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Also, during his discussions with the university professors, to convince them to also purchase the full set of Srila Parbhupada&#8217;s books, he would often proudly tell them towards the end: &#8220;I have also become a follower of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}