{"id":67506,"date":"2019-06-01T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/178973481201"},"modified":"2019-06-01T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:14:13","slug":"the-odyssey-of-lord-krishnas-cuisine-the-most-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=67506","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey of Lord Krishna\u2019s Cuisine: The most beautiful collection of rejection letters!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Odyssey of Lord Krishna\u2019s Cuisine: The most beautiful collection of rejection letters!
\n\u201cLooking back, I don\u2019t know what it was\u2014youthful folly, divine inspiration, some chromosomal glitch in the DNA sequence\u2014I don\u2019t know what it was that prompted us to take this on\u2026. We just felt compelled\u2026.We had faith in Yamuna.
\nWe had faith in the fact that prasadam was so central to Prabhupada\u2019s mission\u2014that if we could do this, then we could die peacefully. I am not saying that in any kind of metaphorical way. I truly think that it was a service that we could look back on and say, \u2018You know what? If nothing else happened, I helped to get that done.\u2019
\nSo we got somebody to pay for copies of the manuscript and sent them out [to publishers]. To this day I have at home the most beautiful collection of rejection letters from every publisher in America. They are the most heartfelt, ‘This is incredible research\u2019; ‘It\u2019s extraordinary\u2019; ‘Good luck to you\u2019; ‘I have no idea what to do with it\u2019; ‘I don\u2019t have any ideas for you\u2019; ‘It\u2019s fantastic.\u2019
\nBut who wanted to publish it? Who wanted to read 1,000 pages on Indian vegetarian food with all of these descriptions of Lord Krishna and this guru [Srila Prabhupada]?\u201d
\n– Yogesvara das, from \u201cYamuna Devi: A Life of Unalloyed Devotion\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Odyssey of Lord Krishna’s Cuisine: The most beautiful collection of rejection letters!
\n“Looking back, I don’t know what it was—youthful folly, divine inspiration, some chromosomal glitch in the DNA sequence—I don’t know what it was that prompted us to take this on…. We just felt compelled….We had faith in Yamuna.
\nWe had faith in the fact that prasadam was so central to Prabhupada’s mission—that if we could do this, then we could die peacefully. I am not saying that in any kind of metaphorical way. I truly think that it was a service that we could look back on and say, ‘You know what? If nothing else happened, I helped to get that done.’
\nSo we got somebody to pay for copies of the manuscript and sent them out [to publishers]. To this day I have at home the most beautiful collection of rejection letters from every publisher in America. They are the most heartfelt, ‘This is incredible research’; ‘It’s extraordinary’; ‘Good luck to you’; ‘I have no idea what to do with it’; ‘I don’t have any ideas for you’; ‘It’s fantastic.’
\nBut who wanted to publish it? Who wanted to read 1,000 pages on Indian vegetarian food with all of these descriptions of Lord Krishna and this guru [Srila Prabhupada]?”
\n– Yogesvara das, from “Yamuna Devi: A Life of Unalloyed Devotion”<\/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-67506","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\/67506","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=67506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67508,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions\/67508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}