{"id":59340,"date":"2018-02-27T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=59340"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:03:52","slug":"weakened-standards-weaken-iskcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=59340","title":{"rendered":"Weakened Standards Weaken ISKCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2SGvx8C.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLess reading of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s books, minimizing his position by more elaborate guru-pujas than SP&#8217;s guru-puja, introduction of new, unauthorized literature, demigod and non Vaishnava worship in Iskcon temples, Indian social customs like rakhi, minimizing prasadam standards, inappropriate items offered to the deities like frozen vegetables, relaxed sexual behavior, improper decorations of the Deities, non traditional kirtans by chanting names non associated with Lord Krishna and more.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BLVEBFXdjJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-7youTlck1CU\/WpUs9LRbZOI\/AAAAAAAAiMA\/K165uzeJjr01p7I1J3xUys33s63hjZHEwCHMYCw\/s0\/2018-02-27_11-24-07.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Malati Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Less reading of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s books, minimizing his position by more elaborate guru-pujas than SP&#8217;s guru-puja, introduction of new, unauthorized literature, demigod and non Vaishnava worship in Iskcon temples, Indian social customs like rakhi, minimizing prasadam standards, inappropriate items offered to the deities like frozen vegetables, relaxed sexual behavior, improper decorations of the Deities, non traditional kirtans by chanting names non associated with Lord Krishna and more.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59340","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=59340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59342,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59340\/revisions\/59342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}