{"id":61092,"date":"2018-04-12T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/172855648581"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T09:55:53","slug":"what-ifmarch-1972-juhu-bombay-india-cornerstone-laying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=61092","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF??\n[March 1972: JUHU BOMBAY, INDIA \u2013 Cornerstone laying…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHAT IF??
\n[March 1972: JUHU BOMBAY, INDIA \u2013 Cornerstone laying ceremony at \u201cHare Krishna Land\u201d] Atreya Rsi: In the same house, Prabhupada gave me a conch, left-handed conch, and he said, \u201cKarttikeya has been such a great host to us and is well-wisher and so generous to us, and he has given me this conch, which is supposed to bring a lot of wealth, and I want to give it to you.\u201d
\nSo he gave me the conch and he said, \u201cI never expected to be able to do all this. I thought maybe we could just have some chanting, we could have a few devotees, but I never\u2026\u201d and he referred to all the temples, all that.
\nBecause Prabhupada, when he was saying that \u201cI never expected it,\u201d he was kind of laughing at himself.
\nHe was saying, \u201cHey, I went after a little fish and I caught such a huge fish, I don\u2019t know what happened.\u201d
\nSo I said, \u201cDo you remember, Prabhupada, the story of Mullah Nasiruddin where Mullah Nasiruddin is sitting by a lake and putting some yogurt in the lake.<\/p>\n

And people say, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n

He says, \u2018I am trying to see if the whole lake will catch to become yogurt.\u2019<\/p>\n

They say, \u2018How could that be possible?\u2019<\/p>\n

He said, \u2018Yes, it\u2019s not possible, but what if?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And we both laughed and laughed, \u201cWhat if? What if?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cYours was the same thing. You just \u2018what if\u2019 and it caught on,\u201d and he says, \u201cYeah,\u201d and we just laughed around that. It was a very joyous time.<\/p>\n

\u2014Atreya Rsi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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WHAT IF??
\n[March 1972: JUHU BOMBAY, INDIA – Cornerstone laying ceremony at “Hare Krishna Land”] Atreya Rsi: In the same house, Prabhupada gave me a conch, left-handed conch, and he said, “Karttikeya has been such a great host to us and is well-wisher and so generous to us, and he has given me this conch, which is supposed to bring a lot of wealth, and I want to give it to you.”
\nSo he gave me the conch and he said, “I never expected to be able to do all this. I thought maybe we could just have some chanting, we could have a few devotees, but I never…” and he referred to all the temples, all that.
\nBecause Prabhupada, when he was saying that “I never expected it,” he was kind of laughing at himself.
\nHe was saying, “Hey, I went after a little fish and I caught such a huge fish, I don’t know what happened.”
\nSo I said, “Do you remember, Prabhupada, the story of Mullah Nasiruddin where Mullah Nasiruddin is sitting by a lake and putting some yogurt in the lake.<\/p>\n

And people say, ‘What are you doing?’<\/p>\n

He says, ‘I am trying to see if the whole lake will catch to become yogurt.’<\/p>\n

They say, ‘How could that be possible?’<\/p>\n

He said, ‘Yes, it’s not possible, but what if?’”<\/p>\n

And we both laughed and laughed, “What if? What if?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Yours was the same thing. You just ‘what if’ and it caught on,” and he says, “Yeah,” and we just laughed around that. It was a very joyous time.<\/p>\n

—Atreya Rsi<\/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":[152],"class_list":["post-61092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092","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=61092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61093,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions\/61093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}