{"id":47354,"date":"2017-06-16T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T09:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/161885457616"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T11:01:26","slug":"when-the-east-came-west-new-vrindavana-on-the-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=47354","title":{"rendered":"When the East came west. New Vrindavana &#8211; On the weekends,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_ormvs8Fncq1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ormvs8Fncq1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ormvs8Fncq1sbj0vuo1_500-249x187.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the East came west. <br \/>\nNew Vrindavana &#8211; On the weekends, around holidays and Hindu holy days, it gets busier at the temple, said Vrindivan Das, the communications director for the community.<br \/>\n\u201cWe see more than 30,000 people a year,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople come because they are curious. They come to see the beautiful palace, and, also, because they are pilgrims.\u201d<br \/>\nVisitors, he said, come from all over the country and Canada, Europe and India.<br \/>\n\u201cWe get a lot more corporate people,\u201d he said. \u201cThey come for the meditation and to relax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with the palace, there\u2019s a community temple that could easily hold several hundred, a gift shop, a yoga studio, an inn and a vegetarian restaurant, which serves Indian food and pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Adherents to the Hindu faith do not eat meat because they believe it attracts negative karma. However, dairy products are permitted. The New Vrindaban Community has a small dairy.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/i9Z42d\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/i9Z42d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/e56a8561eb10ad1cb6351a2acb3475d1\/tumblr_ormvs8Fncq1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When the East came west. <br \/>\nNew Vrindavana &#8211; On the weekends, around holidays and Hindu holy days, it gets busier at the temple, said Vrindivan Das, the communications director for the community.<br \/>\n&ldquo;We see more than 30,000 people a year,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;People come because they are curious. They come to see the beautiful palace, and, also, because they are pilgrims.&rdquo;<br \/>\nVisitors, he said, come from all over the country and Canada, Europe and India.<br \/>\n&ldquo;We get a lot more corporate people,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They come for the meditation and to relax.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Along with the palace, there&rsquo;s a community temple that could easily hold several hundred, a gift shop, a yoga studio, an inn and a vegetarian restaurant, which serves Indian food and pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Adherents to the Hindu faith do not eat meat because they believe it attracts negative karma. However, dairy products are permitted. The New Vrindaban Community has a small dairy.<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/i9Z42d\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/i9Z42d<\/a><\/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-47354","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\/47354","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=47354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47364,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354\/revisions\/47364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}