{"id":77362,"date":"2022-09-13T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/186882308341"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T09:06:17","slug":"how-do-you-know-if-one-is-reading-srila-prabhupadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=77362","title":{"rendered":"How do you know if one is reading Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pvyoalc4me1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pvyoalc4me1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pvyoalc4me1sbj0vuo1_500-280x183.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do you know if one is reading Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books?<br \/>\nShastrakrit Das (book distributor): You can tell when someone is reading Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books:<br \/>\nSo this actress looking middle eastern lady and her young son parked their Porsche, walked past my book table and went inside the grocery store. I actually remembered meeting them in the past and how she was kind of puffed up, so I didn\u2019t expect much. <br \/>\nWhen they came out of the store, they walked straight towards me with a big smile and the boy was holding a $20 bill to give me. The mother was so warm this time and all happy to see me. She goes, \u201chow you been, here is a donation for you. I feel bad, I feel like I owe you,\u201d and the boy puts the money inside my donation bowl.<br \/>\nI vaguely remembered giving the boy a book, so I thought I will just ask him if he is reading the book I gave. <br \/>\nThe boy super enthusiastically says, \u201cI finished the book!\u201d Surprised to hear this 11-year-old say that he finished one of Prabhupad\u2019s books I asked him again, \u2018you read the whole book? Which book was it?\u2019<br \/>\nHe replied \u201cThe Science of Self Realization.\u201d<br \/>\nSo I tried to encourage him to take a few more books. He picked three different titles to take home, but the mother said the boy, Ali, can take only one book.<br \/>\nI encouraged him to take The Gita. The mother asked me why I insist Ali take home The Gita. <br \/>\nI said, \u201cIt\u2019s the main book and its 1000\u2019s of years old spiritual science, etc.. \u201d<br \/>\nThe mother got irritated saying, \u201cwhy everyone always talks about ancient, authentic, old stuff? What\u2019s wrong with new? Why not forget about all that ancient stuff and just live in the now and go with the flow?\u201d<br \/>\nI was thinking what to say to her and the boy interjects, \u201cmom that\u2019s what the animals do, as humans we are supposed to have wisdom and guidance.\u201d He shocked both the mother and myself with his response. We both laughed so hard. <br \/>\nThe mother goes, \u201cbaby did you just call me an animal?\u201d The boy bluntly replied, \u201cSorry mom that\u2019s what these books say.\u201d <br \/>\nAfter they both walked off I couldn\u2019t stop laughing. I was thinking to myself, this boy has definitely read Prabhupad\u2019s books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/492ed67be3d2cabf3bbd5de17765ba70\/tumblr_pvyoalc4me1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nShastrakrit Das (book distributor): You can tell when someone is reading Srila Prabhupada&rsquo;s books:<br \/>\nSo this actress looking middle eastern lady and her young son parked their Porsche, walked past my book table and went inside the grocery store. I actually remembered meeting them in the past and how she was kind of puffed up, so I didn&rsquo;t expect much. <\/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-77362","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\/77362","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=77362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89416,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77362\/revisions\/89416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}