{"id":58169,"date":"2018-01-26T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=58169"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T10:21:02","slug":"700-students-receive-bhagavad-gita-in-surat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=58169","title":{"rendered":"700 students receive Bhagavad-gita in Surat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wAeTcxY.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TLXqo1p.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/63ehBai.jpg\"  width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cydmvEE.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YTotWpl.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Romapada Das<\/strong>, ISKCON Surat<\/p>\n<p>Over 700 students of the LPD School in Surat received copies of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is at an event organized by ISKCON Surat on 18th January.<\/p>\n<p>The programme organized by Ramlila Das, a youth preacher in Surat, included skits, prayers, kirtana and a lecture by His Holiness Bhaktiprem Swami.<\/p>\n<p>Bhaktiprem Swami described how the Gita was the essence of all the Upanishads, and engaged the students in a question-answer session that was lively and interactive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur school is centred around total personality development, in addition to academic learning,\u201d said Vijay Patel, the Principal of the school. \u201cStudents are taught the wisdom of our ancient Vedic culture in a manner that can be applied to their daily lives. That is why we were pleased to partner with ISKCON in distributing copies of the Bhagavad-gita to all our senior students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the kirtana that followed, most of the students participated in the singing and dancing in an enthusiastic manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also be conducting an examination on the Gita,\u201d concluded Vamsidhari Das, who heads the youth preaching activities in Gujarat. \u201cMany students have already enrolled. We think this will mark a real transformation in their lives for advancing towards spiritual culture and inner fulfillment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BcRHhp3.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Romapada Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Over 700 students of the LPD School in Surat received copies of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is at an event organized by ISKCON Surat on 18th January.  The programme organized by Ramlila Das, a youth preacher in Surat, included skits, prayers, kirtana and a lecture by His Holiness Bhaktiprem Swami.  Bhaktiprem Swami described how the Gita was the essence of all the Upanishads, and engaged the students in a question-answer session that was lively and interactive.  \u201cOur school is centred around total personality development, in addition to academic learning,\u201d said Vijay Patel, the Principal of the school. \u201cStudents are taught the wisdom of our ancient Vedic culture in a manner that can be applied to their daily lives. That is why we were pleased to partner with ISKCON in distributing copies of the Bhagavad-gita to all our senior students.\u201d  During the kirtana that followed, most of the students participated in the singing and dancing in an enthusiastic manner.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169","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=58169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58171,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169\/revisions\/58171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}