{"id":5277,"date":"2008-02-10T17:34:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2008-02-10T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:34:40","slug":"recommended-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5277","title":{"rendered":"Recommended book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vrsabha das: Dear devotees, pamho.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to share with you my appreciation of a book written by Mr. James Bruges. The book&#8217;s title is &#8216;The Big Earth Book&#8217;, published by Alastair Sawday Publishing Co. Ltd. It offers fantastic exposure of madness of the modern day society. It is packed with well-documented data and historical \/ sociological facts that could help very well to the preacher who tries to establish superiority of vedic \/ vaishnava tradition over materialism. I find &#8216;The Big Earth Book&#8217; an excellent source of practical examples of the modern society&#8217;s madness. In short, if you want to find more about politics of climate change and pollution and how the western economics are driving the destruction of the world we know and love &#8216; read this book. In particular, I would strongly recommend this book to those devotees who are still looking at the &#8216;glamour&#8217; of the material society with starry eyes, hoping that it could offer something easier and better than spiritual happiness derived from bhakti-yoga. I am sure that many of those who levitate somewhere in between bhakti-yoga and materialism &#8216; will again grab their japa beads with a better understanding of what materialism could really offer. The book is printed on high quality paper and has many first class photos. I bought it in Dublin for &#8217;37, but it could be ordered online either from the publisher directly or from Amazon. com.<\/p>\n<p>Y. S. Vrsabha das <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vrsabha das: I&#8217;d like to share with you my appreciation of a book written by Mr. James Bruges. The book&#8217;s title is &#8216;The Big Earth Book&#8217;, published by Alastair Sawday Publishing Co. Ltd.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}