{"id":72,"date":"2006-06-10T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.61.30.203\/~danda\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-07-02T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T07:53:19","slug":"dear-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Dear Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragossa.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>Welcome to Dandavats. I hope that your visit is the first of many and that our relationship will be a long lasting and mutually fruitful one.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know the internet is the fastest growing medium for communication available and it is likely to be so long into the future. As a result the outreach and association opportunities for devotees and friends of Lord Krishna are unlimited.<\/p>\n<p>Dandavats is a small offering of assistance toward that outreach and devotional sanga.<\/p>\n<p>Every day we are bombarded with more and more horror stories which for devotees merely confirm the advice of sastra \u2013 padam padam yad vipadam \u2013 from global warming to war, from famine to terrorism from natural disasters to gratuitous violence to mention just a few.<\/p>\n<p>It is now more evident than ever that the words of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura should be both remembered and broadcast far and wide to protect everyone from the inevitable conclusion of material existence:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo wherever we go all over the world, our only request is, please try to understand Krsna. Then your life is successful.\u201d &#8211; <em>Srila Prabhupada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is here in this world, nothing is lacking except Krsna consciousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kindness that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has shown to jivas [souls] absolves them eternally from all wants, from all inconveniences and from all distresses. That kindness does not produce any evil, and the jivas who have it will not be the victims of the evils of the world.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to your assistance via Dandavats.com in communicating the above eternal message of Krsna consciousness. Please contribute as often and as frequently as you desire.<\/p>\n<p>Hare Krsna, Praghosa  dasa <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pragosa3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Welcome to Dandavats. I hope that your visit is the first of many and that our relationship will be a long lasting and mutually fruitful one. As we all know the internet is the fastest growing medium for communication available and it is likely to be so long into the future. As a result the outreach and association opportunities for devotees and friends of Lord Krishna are unlimited.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}