{"id":61378,"date":"2022-12-19T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/173091643111"},"modified":"2024-01-09T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:13:49","slug":"tosan-krishna-das-remembers-yamuna-devi-when-one-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=61378","title":{"rendered":"Tosan Krishna das remembers Yamuna devi."},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tosan Krishna das remembers Yamuna devi.
\n\u201cWhen one is on the bhakti marga everything is personal. Yamuna devi\u2019s abundantly nutritious persona was the direct catalyst making the crucial difference between myself merely looking at the honey inside the jar and my deliberate decision to dive in.
\nBy way of my attendance of a Srimad Bhagavatam class she gave one morning in the summer of 1968 at the Frederick Street temple in San Francisco (my first visitor\u2019s experience of a temple morning program), I, a 17-year-old agnostic, was delightfully treated to the warm realization that Krishna Consciousness was not only a very good concept but was, in fact, a wealth of wholesome food-for-the-soul that you could practically experience, relish and be fortified with. She was the unpretentious personification of this with both heart and soul.
\nAs an existential sojourner, I was weary of 60\u2019s faux counter-cultural promises. Yamuna was a breath of rich nourishing reality. She was the un-hippy, the real deal, hard-core, with a soft inner-core. She delivered. I wanted what she was dishing out\u2014shabda brahma, transcendental sound spoken with piercing intelligence, deep love and a beguiling, sparkling, playful smile\u2014transferred from one soul to the next. Simply put, Yamuna was the key impetus for my deciding to move into the temple and then take initiation from Srila Prabhupada. She placed the kanti mala around my neck. Profoundly understood\u2014she saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\n“When one is on the bhakti marga everything is personal. Yamuna devi’s abundantly nutritious persona was the direct catalyst making the crucial difference between myself merely looking at the honey inside the jar and my deliberate decision to dive in.<\/p>\n

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