{"id":78616,"date":"2019-09-24T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/187914960021"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:11:32","slug":"time-bombsin-the-late-1980s-a-man-called-terence-had-picked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=78616","title":{"rendered":"*Time Bombs*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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*Time Bombs*<\/p>\n

In the late 1980s a man called Terence had picked up a few books from our early-days as brahmacharis in Sydney, and he left them on the shelf over his TV. He was a regular, working, tax-paying Aussie family man. Got lost in the mesh of the material world and never read the books.<\/p>\n

He had a baby boy born later that century, and he named him Saul.<\/p>\n

20 years later Saul started going to Sydney Uni and completed a Bachelors in Psychology and a Master\u2019s in Counseling. During his Uni break, he wondered what his dad\u2019s books over the TV were and flipped the pages and just let the flow of Prabhupad\u2019s words into his consciousness and did not realize how much he had embraced Srila Prabhupad.<\/p>\n

2017 – I solemnly stopped Saul and (business as usual) asked him what he was doing in the Uni. Once I understood his academic background, I offered him to the Srimad Bhagavatam to read. Looking at Prabhupad\u2019s picture, he exclaimed: \u201cI already know this person via my father.\u201d His frequency of visits to my table became a little regular, and he started picking up more books.<\/p>\n

I am sure this is not the first time this has happened, however, this picture will delight you. Saul is a regular book distributor with me now, and he practices full-time Krishna consciousness and actually goes to the university looking like he does in the picture and tells everybody he meets in the Uni to chant Hare Krishna.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how these things work!<\/p>\n

Ys
\nRadhika Prasad Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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*Time Bombs*<\/p>\n

In the late 1980s a man called Terence had picked up a few books from our early-days as brahmacharis in Sydney, and he left them on the shelf over his TV. He was a regular, working, tax-paying Aussie family man. Got lost in the mesh of the material world and never read the books.<\/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-78616","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\/78616","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=78616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78618,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78616\/revisions\/78618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}