{"id":45263,"date":"2017-04-21T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/159820378381"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:42:00","slug":"nikhil-and-nikhils-sister-get-the-mercy-shastrakrit-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=45263","title":{"rendered":"Nikhil and Nikhil\u2019s sister get the mercy.\nShastrakrit Das:&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oor460WUZT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oor460WUZT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oor460WUZT1sbj0vuo1_500-140x187.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nikhil and Nikhil\u2019s sister get the mercy.<br \/>\nShastrakrit Das: I was at my book table. This Indian lady walked by my book table along with her teenage son. I called them over to give them some prasadam. I gave them a spoon of Maha halava each. The mother\u2019s response was \u201coh we have all these books\u201d but her teenage son was attracted to HH Devamrita Swami\u2019s book \u201cHiding in unnatural happiness\u201d.<br \/>\nSo his mother bought it for him, her son, named Nikhil.<br \/>\nA couple of weeks later this teenage boy walked up to my book table and put a nice donation in my donation box and asked if he can have a copy of The Gita. I was so thrilled that this young man was so eager for The Gita and asked him why he is interested in the Gita?<br \/>\nHe reminded me that I had given him the copy of the Hiding in Unnatural happiness earlier and he read it cover to cover and the author inspired him to read the Gita.<br \/>\nAnd again today I was at my book table, Nikhil came to me along with his cute little sister &#038; he had finished reading The Gita already and he had amazing questions from the Gita like \u201c Prabhupada says we should go to Krishnaloka &#038; few pages down Prabhupada says that a pure devotee doesn\u2019t even want to go to Krishnaloka, he is happy just serving Krishna, so how to understand that \u201d?<br \/>\nAfter our nice discussion, he bought a Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.<br \/>\nAnd Nikhil\u2019s sister had some deep questions as well like \u201cwhy in the paintings we see the girlfriends of Krishna and animals are so attracted to Him, etc \u201d<br \/>\nAnd Nikhil bought a Krishna book for her little sister.<br \/>\nI was blown away how special these siblings are, must be from last life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/b202a05673f4393bf4d15a07fc3c50f4\/tumblr_oor460WUZT1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Nikhil and Nikhil&rsquo;s sister get the mercy.<br \/>\nShastrakrit Das: I was at my book table. This Indian lady walked by my book table along with her teenage son. I called them over to give them some prasadam. I gave them a spoon of Maha halava each. The mother&rsquo;s response was &ldquo;oh we have all these books&rdquo; but her teenage son was attracted to HH Devamrita Swami&rsquo;s book &ldquo;Hiding in unnatural happiness&rdquo;.<br \/>\nSo his mother bought it for him, her son, named Nikhil.<br \/>\nA couple of weeks later this teenage boy walked up to my book table and put a nice donation in my donation box and asked if he can have a copy of The Gita. I was so thrilled that this young man was so eager for The Gita and asked him why he is interested in the Gita?<br \/>\nHe reminded me that I had given him the copy of the Hiding in Unnatural happiness earlier and he read it cover to cover and the author inspired him to read the Gita.<br \/>\nAnd again today I was at my book table, Nikhil came to me along with his cute little sister &amp; he had finished reading The Gita already and he had amazing questions from the Gita like &ldquo; Prabhupada says we should go to Krishnaloka &amp; few pages down Prabhupada says that a pure devotee doesn&rsquo;t even want to go to Krishnaloka, he is happy just serving Krishna, so how to understand that &rdquo;?<br \/>\nAfter our nice discussion, he bought a Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.<br \/>\nAnd Nikhil&rsquo;s sister had some deep questions as well like &ldquo;why in the paintings we see the girlfriends of Krishna and animals are so attracted to Him, etc &rdquo;<br \/>\nAnd Nikhil bought a Krishna book for her little sister.<br \/>\nI was blown away how special these siblings are, must be from last life<\/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-45263","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\/45263","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=45263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45264,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/revisions\/45264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}