{"id":52574,"date":"2017-10-29T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/166910291816"},"modified":"2017-10-29T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:39:31","slug":"srila-prabhupadas-unique-achievement-late-1966-it-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=52574","title":{"rendered":"Srila Prabhupada\u2019s Unique Achievement.\nLate 1966. \u201cIt took…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srila Prabhupada\u2019s Unique Achievement.
\nLate 1966. \u201cIt took Hopkins a while to adjust to the idea of a Vaishnava temple replete with a printing operation in the middle of the Lower East Side of New York City. \u201cIt\u2019s an astonishing story,\u201d he reflected. \u201cIf someone told you a story like this, you wouldn\u2019t believe it. Here\u2019s this person, seventy years old, coming to a country where he\u2019s never been before. He doesn\u2019t know anybody, he has no money, no contacts, none of the things you would say make for success. He\u2019s going to recruit people not on any systematic basis but just picking up whomever he comes across\u2014and he\u2019s going to give them responsibility for organizing a worldwide movement? You\u2019d say, \u2018What kind of program is that?\u2019 There are precedents perhaps. Jesus of Nazareth went around saying, \u2018Come follow me. Drop your nets, leave your tax collecting, and be my disciple.\u2019 But in Jesus\u2019s case, he wasn\u2019t an old man in a strange society dealing with people whose backgrounds were totally different from his own. He was dealing with his own community. Bhaktivedanta Swami\u2019s achievement, then, must be seen as unique.\u201d
\nFrom the book Swami In A Strange Land: How Krishna Came To The West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Srila Prabhupada’s Unique Achievement.
\nLate 1966. “It took Hopkins a while to adjust to the idea of a Vaishnava temple replete with a printing operation in the middle of the Lower East Side of New York City. “It’s an astonishing story,” he reflected. “If someone told you a story like this, you wouldn’t believe it. Here’s this person, seventy years old, coming to a country where he’s never been before. He doesn’t know anybody, he has no money, no contacts, none of the things you would say make for success. He’s going to recruit people not on any systematic basis but just picking up whomever he comes across—and he’s going to give them responsibility for organizing a worldwide movement? You’d say, ‘What kind of program is that?’ There are precedents perhaps. Jesus of Nazareth went around saying, ‘Come follow me. Drop your nets, leave your tax collecting, and be my disciple.’ But in Jesus’s case, he wasn’t an old man in a strange society dealing with people whose backgrounds were totally different from his own. He was dealing with his own community. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s achievement, then, must be seen as unique.”
\nFrom the book Swami In A Strange Land: How Krishna Came To The West<\/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-52574","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\/52574","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=52574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52575,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions\/52575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}