{"id":51664,"date":"2017-10-04T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/166039709286"},"modified":"2017-10-04T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:57:35","slug":"krsna-and-his-devotee-give-a-helping-hand-burwood-is-usually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=51664","title":{"rendered":"Krsna and His devotee give a helping hand. \nBurwood is usually…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Krsna and His devotee give a helping hand.
\nBurwood is usually one of the toughest suburbs in Sydney for book distribution. I have been there a few times already. So this time I started pessimistically again, then realized that I need to be positive to start book distribution, so I went on to greet some people. Met a couple of people and had unsuccessful attempts.
\nThen along comes this Indian gentleman with earphones on, listening to something. I stopped him and asked whether he would be interested in taking a Bhagavad-gita. It was the quickest sale of my life.
\nHe asked me, \u201cCan you guess what I am listening to through the earphones?\u201d
\nI said I didn\u2019t know.
\nHe said, \u201cI am listening to a lecture by Gaur Gopal Dasa.\u201d
\nThen he gave me a solid donation, hinting that I should distribute some books on his behalf. The rest of the day turned out well. I met a lot of people with different nationalities who were genuinely interested in our books but had only a few coins to spare. The large donation helped cover the shortages, and I ended up finishing the whole stock on the day. I was disappointed that I didn\u2019t have more stock. I returned back home wondering where that help came from. I determined that I should be an optimist in Krishna\u2019s service.
\nYour Servant,
\nRadhika Prasad Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Krsna and His devotee give a helping hand.
\nBurwood is usually one of the toughest suburbs in Sydney for book distribution. I have been there a few times already. So this time I started pessimistically again, then realized that I need to be positive to start book distribution, so I went on to greet some people. Met a couple of people and had unsuccessful attempts.
\nThen along comes this Indian gentleman with earphones on, listening to something. I stopped him and asked whether he would be interested in taking a Bhagavad-gita. It was the quickest sale of my life.
\nHe asked me, “Can you guess what I am listening to through the earphones?”
\nI said I didn’t know.
\nHe said, “I am listening to a lecture by Gaur Gopal Dasa.”
\nThen he gave me a solid donation, hinting that I should distribute some books on his behalf. The rest of the day turned out well. I met a lot of people with different nationalities who were genuinely interested in our books but had only a few coins to spare. The large donation helped cover the shortages, and I ended up finishing the whole stock on the day. I was disappointed that I didn’t have more stock. I returned back home wondering where that help came from. I determined that I should be an optimist in Krishna’s service.
\nYour Servant,
\nRadhika Prasad Dasa<\/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-51664","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\/51664","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=51664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51665,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51664\/revisions\/51665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}