{"id":73282,"date":"2019-03-29T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/183784216526"},"modified":"2019-03-29T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:09:52","slug":"im-so-glad-youre-still-out-heredanakeli-dasi-today-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=73282","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019M SO GLAD YOU\u2019RE STILL OUT HERE!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI\u2019M SO GLAD YOU\u2019RE STILL OUT HERE!\u201d
\nDanakeli Dasi: Today, at the University of South Carolina, a woman approached me partly out of breath & said this.<\/p>\n

I had just distributed my second-to-last Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 for the day, & before I could wonder who would get the last one, she suddenly appeared. She said, \u201cA colleague in my office showed me a copy of that BG you\u2019re holding, which he got a little earlier from a gentleman out here.\u201d [That gentleman was my husband Prithusrava Dasa.]\n

She has read other versions of BG before but was so impressed w\/ the fact that \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s has the original Sanskrit plus a commentary that she rushed out to the area where we were distributing in order to catch us before we packed up for the day. She also appreciated there being 48 color plates in the book.<\/p>\n

A professor of Oceanography from Ukraine was happy to get a copy of BG & \u201cOn Chanting Hare Krishna\u201d from my husband. He said, \u201cThis is so popular in my country. I\u2019m happy I\u2019m finally getting your book.\u201d<\/p>\n

A girl from Russia took a BG & two other books from me & acknowledged that BG is popular in her country also. She asked, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t it popular here?\u201d (Shrug!)<\/p>\n

A student who recently got out of the military said he was suffering from depression. He took interest in BG since it was spoken on a battlefield. He happily took the book & a \u201cChant & Be Happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Muslim student from Bangladesh approached me, saying, \u201cOh, I\u2019ve never seen anyone wearing a sari on this campus before!\u201d I told her about \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da being Bengali, & she took an OCHK pamphlet to learn more about our movement.<\/p>\n

Recently at Augusta Univ., my husband was entering a building while a student holding a BG was exiting. When he saw the same BG in my husband\u2019s hand, he asked, \u201cIs this yours? I just found it abandoned on a table. BG is my brother\u2019s book of wisdom, & I\u2019ve been wanting to read it!\u201d Just goes to show that the person we may initially distribute a book to maybe the instrument to get it into the hands of another who\u2019s meant to have it.<\/p>\n

At Auburn Univ., a student from China (who I was guessing was from Mongolia due to his looks) took a serious interest in BG, saying he\u2019d like to learn about his neighbor India\u2019s beliefs, culture & history. He gave a generous donation & thanked me again & again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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“I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE STILL OUT HERE!”
\nDanakeli Dasi: Today, at the University of South Carolina, a woman approached me partly out of breath & said this.<\/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-73282","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\/73282","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=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73284,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions\/73284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}