{"id":63358,"date":"2018-06-15T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/174907265821"},"modified":"2018-06-15T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:26:35","slug":"matchless-gifts-howard-wheeler-hayagriva-dasa-when-i-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=63358","title":{"rendered":"Matchless Gifts.\nHoward Wheeler (Hayagriva dasa): When I first&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_pacpwbMAz41sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pacpwbMAz41sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pacpwbMAz41sbj0vuo1_500-280x158.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matchless Gifts.<br \/>\nHoward Wheeler (Hayagriva dasa): When I first met my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, I felt that there was never a time when I did not know him. I never tire of telling of my first meeting with him on the streets of Lower East Side New York.<br \/>\nAt the time, I was hurrying from my Mott Street apartment, which had become a refuge for psychedeliacs, to a much quieter apartment on Fifth Street where I hoped to get some peace. I was walking down Houston Street and across Bowery, past the rushing traffic and stumbling derelicts, and after crossing Bowery, just before Second Avenue, I saw His Divine Grace jauntily strolling down the sidewalk, his head high in the air, his hand in a beadbag. He struck me like a famous actor in a very familiar movie. He seemed ageless, though later I found out that he was seventy years old.<br \/>\nTo read the complete article please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/YaFotZ\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/YaFotZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/b9e328c7bbdc3f513eb1c2b9c0a318ce\/tumblr_pacpwbMAz41sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Matchless Gifts.<br \/>\nHoward Wheeler (Hayagriva dasa): When I first met my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Sw&#8230;<\/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-63358","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\/63358","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=63358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63359,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63358\/revisions\/63359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}