{"id":52707,"date":"2017-11-02T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/167045341986"},"modified":"2017-11-02T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:39:36","slug":"the-four-regulative-principles-bhakta-derek-who-studies-at-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=52707","title":{"rendered":"The four regulative principles.\nBhakta Derek who studies at San&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52706\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_oysdm0TL9P1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oysdm0TL9P1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oysdm0TL9P1sbj0vuo1_500-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The four regulative principles.<br \/>\nBhakta Derek who studies at San Jose State University in California joined me for book distribution. Derek was talking to one of the professors who came to the table, the professor mentioned that he tried to meditate but it is very difficult. Derek responded back in a gentle yet firm way. He said, \u201cIf one lives a pure life of no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication and no illicit sex, then one\u2019s meditation is thousand times easier.\u201d The Professor was deeply impressed by his response and he immediately took the book and gave a good donation.<br \/>\nYour servant,<br \/>\nMadhava Govinda Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/ad16f12e483e37a7c27cce0186ea1c10\/tumblr_oysdm0TL9P1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The four regulative principles.<br \/>\nBhakta Derek who studies at San Jose State University in California joined me for book distribution. Derek was talking to one of the professors who came to the table, the professor mentioned that he tried to meditate but it is very difficult. Derek responded back in a gentle yet firm way. He said, &ldquo;If one lives a pure life of no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication and no illicit sex, then one&rsquo;s meditation is thousand times easier.&rdquo; The Professor was deeply impressed by his response and he immediately took the book and gave a good donation.<br \/>\nYour servant,<br \/>\nMadhava Govinda Das<\/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-52707","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\/52707","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=52707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52708,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52707\/revisions\/52708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}