{"id":407,"date":"2006-07-13T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2006-07-13T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T19:26:55","slug":"not-a-dry-eye-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Not a Dry Eye in the House!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LM-Akuti.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Nikunjavasini dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A memorable dinner was held on Saturday, July 8, in honor of the retirement of two special Vaisnavis: Laxmimoni dasi and Akuti dasi. In the Alachua Learning Center cafeteria, many devotees attended this special event to honor these two servants of Srila Prabhupada. They were lauded for their dedication to educating teen-age, devotee girls for the last thirty-five years. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sesa-lm-akuti.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many speakers told stories of antics, drama, sacrifice, and heroism performed by the pair over the years. Former students, colleagues, friends, and family members expressed their love and gratitude for those many years of service to the young ladies of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s movement. By implanting the seed of Krishna Consciousness in these young lady\u2019s hearts, they made an important investment for the future of his mission. When all was said and done, there was not a dry eye in the house. <\/p>\n<p>Humbly the two ladies gave all credit to Srila Prabhupada and their friends and colleagues for the success of the school, Vaisnava Academy for Girls, which held its last graduation ceremony in June of this year. <\/p>\n<p>Although they have retired from the VAG, they are both ready to press on in service to Krishna: Akuti to develop innovative ways to distribute Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books and Laxmimoni to campaign for more of ISKCON\u2019s focus and resources to be directed to education of young Vaisnavas. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garlands.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><br \/>\nThe master of ceremonies was Laxmi Nrsimha and the evening was concluded with a sumptuous feast created by his wife, master cook, Pattarajni dasi. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krishna.com\/akcnews\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LMswsw-Akuti.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Nikunjavasini dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> A memorable dinner was held on Saturday, July 8, in honor of the retirement of two special Vaisnavis: Laxmimoni dasi and Akuti dasi. In the Alachua Learning Center cafeteria, many devotees attended this special event to honor these two servants of Srila Prabhupada.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}