{"id":33530,"date":"2018-07-29T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/153378268101"},"modified":"2018-07-29T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T12:19:31","slug":"the-real-thingi-was-distributing-door-to-door-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=33530","title":{"rendered":"I was distributing door to door…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The \u201cReal Thing\u201d
\nI was distributing door to door: I rang the bell, and a middle-aged woman opened the door. When she saw me she opened her mouth and eyes wide.
\nSlightly laughing, I said, \u201cI\u2019m a missionary, do not worry\u201d.
\nIn the meantime her husband came, saw the situation and invited me to enter the apartment.
\nAfter few moments the woman \u201cwoke up\u201d and told me,\u201c Please excuse me if I did not let you in immediately but I was very shocked to see you here, it is the first time\u2026. you are a Hare Krishna right?\u201d
\n\u201cYes it is, and yes I am\u201d I answered back.
\nShe continued,\u201c I am simply in love with Srila Prabhupada and His more than wonderful books.\u201d
\nThen I asked which books she had and she showed me six books of S.P that she bought in a used books store. I presented to her the Caitanya Cairitamrta set and other introductory books that she immediately accepted.
\nI felt very encouraged after this because I saw the potency of the SKT movement and in particular of S.P. books. I used to say sometimes to the people I meet: \u201cI know you do not read but take this book anyway because these are the only books with legs\u2026.\u201d The only contact she had with Krishna Consciousness was Srila Prabhupada books. Actually, \u201cThey\u201d are doing sankirtana we may be or not be there but S.P\u2019s Books are there, and they\u2019re the \u201cReal Thing\u201d.
\nYour Servant,
\nAnakadundubhi Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The “Real Thing”
\nI was distributing door to door: I rang the bell, and a middle-aged woman opened the door. When she saw me she opened her mouth and eyes wide.
\nSlightly laughing, I said, “I’m a missionary, do not worry”.
\nIn the meantime her husband came, saw the situation and invited me to enter the apartment.
\nAfter few moments the woman “woke up” and told me,“ Please excuse me if I did not let you in immediately but I was very shocked to see you here, it is the first time…. you are a Hare Krishna right?”
\n“Yes it is, and yes I am” I answered back.
\nShe continued,“ I am simply in love with Srila Prabhupada and His more than wonderful books.”
\nThen I asked which books she had and she showed me six books of S.P that she bought in a used books store. I presented to her the Caitanya Cairitamrta set and other introductory books that she immediately accepted.
\nI felt very encouraged after this because I saw the potency of the SKT movement and in particular of S.P. books. I used to say sometimes to the people I meet: “I know you do not read but take this book anyway because these are the only books with legs….” The only contact she had with Krishna Consciousness was Srila Prabhupada books. Actually, “They” are doing sankirtana we may be or not be there but S.P’s Books are there, and they’re the “Real Thing”.
\nYour Servant,
\nAnakadundubhi Das<\/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-33530","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\/33530","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=33530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64835,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530\/revisions\/64835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}