{"id":48481,"date":"2017-07-12T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/162897140031"},"modified":"2017-07-12T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:05:58","slug":"a-young-boy-with-a-spiritual-appetiteshastrakrit-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=48481","title":{"rendered":"A young boy with a spiritual appetite!\nShastrakrit Das:&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_osz5hyZRfY1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_osz5hyZRfY1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_osz5hyZRfY1sbj0vuo1_500-140x187.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A young boy with a spiritual appetite!<br \/>\nShastrakrit Das: Recently, to my surprise, I received a text from this south India gentleman Suresh saying that his 12-year-old son Shreyas is on a school break for the summer and has read the ( Krishna Dharma\u2019s) Mahabharata three times cover to cover (which they bought from me a couple of months ago).Sreyas kept asking Suresh for more books about Krishna.<br \/>\nI suggested that Suresh buy his intelligent and pious son the entire Bhagavatam set, which includes Ram lila and lilas of all other incarnations.<br \/>\nA few minutes later, Suresh texted, saying that his son is eager to read Bhagavatam\u2019s right away.<br \/>\nWe met an hour later in a parking lot of a mall where I usually distribute, and they immediately put the set in the trunk of their car. The boy was so happy.<br \/>\nMy Gurudeva, Devamrita Swami, often says that we should pray that people are fortunate to run into book distributors again and again and that they become more and more fortunate by receiving more and more and more of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/53a680249fed4f6b70a88fa106f54409\/tumblr_osz5hyZRfY1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A young boy with a spiritual appetite!<br \/>\nShastrakrit Das: Recently, to my surprise, I received a text from this south India gentleman Suresh saying that his 12-year-old son Shreyas is on a school break for the summer and has read the ( Krishna Dharma&rsquo;s) Mahabharata three times cover to cover (which they bought from me a couple of months ago).Sreyas kept asking Suresh for more books about Krishna.<br \/>\nI suggested that Suresh buy his intelligent and pious son the entire Bhagavatam set, which includes Ram lila and lilas of all other incarnations.<br \/>\nA few minutes later, Suresh texted, saying that his son is eager to read Bhagavatam&rsquo;s right away.<br \/>\nWe met an hour later in a parking lot of a mall where I usually distribute, and they immediately put the set in the trunk of their car. The boy was so happy.<br \/>\nMy Gurudeva, Devamrita Swami, often says that we should pray that people are fortunate to run into book distributors again and again and that they become more and more fortunate by receiving more and more and more of Srila Prabhupada&rsquo;s books.<\/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-48481","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\/48481","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=48481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48482,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions\/48482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}