{"id":75533,"date":"2019-06-05T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/185380559226"},"modified":"2019-06-05T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T09:03:44","slug":"meet-hg-prabhupada-dasa-and-his-wife-hg-rajni-devi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=75533","title":{"rendered":"Meet HG Prabhupada dasa and his wife, HG Rajni devi…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet HG Prabhupada dasa and his wife, HG Rajni devi dasi.
\nPrabhupada dasa and his wife, Rajni devi dasi, moved to London in the early 1960s to study: Rajni in Education and Prabhupada dasa to do Law. They first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada in 1969.<\/p>\n

Prabhupada dasa recalls, \u201cAt first I was not so keen, as so many people from India had come in pursuit of disciples and money. I soon realized that Srila Prabhupada was a proper sannyasi, representing Krishna, and he had a plan founded in Krishna.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, he was called to render important service. \u201cAs a lawyer, I was approached by Mukunda dasa (now Goswami) in 1971, to speak with Prabhupada, who explained, \u2018As you are from a Vaishnava family and a brahmana, I would like you to do whatever you can do in Krishna\u2019s service in the UK, as we want to have a very strong presence here.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Over the next two decades, Prabhupada dasa was involved in major ISKCON struggles: saving Bury Place, the purchase of the Soho Street Temple, and helping to secure Bhaktivedanta Manor, George Harrison\u2019s gift to ISKCON.<\/p>\n

In the early 1980s, ISKCON was targeted in an anti-cult campaign, fueled by uninformed speculation and rumor. Prabhupada dasa helped Mukunda Goswami to persuade ITV, London\u2019s most popular TV station, to investigate ISKCON objectively. When the prime time TV show aired, it revised public perception of ISKCON from suspicion to respect for its ancient traditions.<\/p>\n

Of course, behind every powerful man is a powerful woman. \u201cMy wife,\u201d says Prabhupada dasa, \u201chas always been the moral strength of the family and its binding force was our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rajni explains, \u201cEvery evening after school, we would worship, cook and make offerings together. We wanted our girls to take the best of Western life, particularly in education, but to not get lost in it.\u201d Prabhupada nods, adding, \u201cMuch of our success comes from our shared values. ISKCON was our \u2018anchor\u2019 and our home was an extension of the temple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their shared hope for ISKCON\u2019s future is that, as long as we keep Srila Prabhupada in the center, the movement will continue to grow and expand: \u201cIt is something that is unstoppable,\u201d concludes Rajni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Meet HG Prabhupada dasa and his wife, HG Rajni devi dasi.
\nPrabhupada dasa and his wife, Rajni devi dasi, moved to London in the early 1960s to study: Rajni in Education and Prabhupada dasa to do Law. They first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada in 1969.<\/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-75533","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\/75533","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=75533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75535,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions\/75535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}