{"id":69270,"date":"2022-09-30T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/180846947311"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:56:06","slug":"our-son-died-with-your-gita-on-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69270","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur son died with your Gita on his chest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pjaoooV4VF1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pjaoooV4VF1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pjaoooV4VF1sbj0vuo1_500-140x187.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur son died with your Gita on his chest\u201d<br \/>\nVisvambhara Das: Some time ago l met a family in Uxbridge. After they received a Gita from me, they said, \u201cOur son Kesava received the same book 3 months ago from an Italian priest called Raffaele from Watford mandir. Kesava was on a wheelchair. When he came home, he was reading it every day\u201d. When l asked, \u201c Where is Kesava now?\u201d they replied, \u201cHe passed away last month with the Gita on his chest in hospital. He was 18 years old and suffering from MS muscular dystrophy.\u201d They had just come back from lndia, from placing his ashes in the Ganga. I asked, \u201cDo you have a picture of your son?\u201d They showed me and I said, \u201cThe Italian priest was me\u201d. They burst into tears and hugged me. They were very grateful\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/54a1ea98c7998b63d6f62e37f69457ad\/tumblr_pjaoooV4VF1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nVisvambhara Das: Some time ago l met a family in Uxbridge. After they received a Gita from me, they said, &ldquo;Our son Kesava received the same book 3 months ago from an Italian priest called Raffaele from Watford mandir. Kesava was on a wheelchair. When he came home, he was reading it every day&rdquo;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-69270","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\/69270","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=69270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90196,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions\/90196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}