{"id":7940,"date":"2009-12-07T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2009-12-07T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T11:38:19","slug":"spanish-prisoners-come-closer-to-krishna-consciousness-through-prasadam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7940","title":{"rendered":"Spanish prisoners come closer to Krishna Consciousness through prasadam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ComidaVegetariana0711280x768.jpg' alt='' \/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ComidaVegetariana138DesktopResolution.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Krishna Kripa Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Iskcon Spain communications team<\/p>\n<p>Friday 4th december, for the first time in the history of Spain\u00b4s prisons, and may be in Europe, the prisoners as well their guards ate a full classic prasadam lunch meal. <\/p>\n<p>Ceuta, is a spanish city bordering with Morrocco, separated from the Spain mainland by the strech  of Gibraltar. Its population is 77.000, and the Prison has 350 inmates and more than 100 guards. <\/p>\n<p>Krishna Kripa Dasa and his wife Radhapriya Dasi (disciples of H. H. Bhakti Charu Swami) cooked with the help of a team of prisoners and served prasadam to 400 peopole including inmates as well their guards, and some reporters. <\/p>\n<p>The lunch consisted of basmati rice, dhal,  mix vegetables sabji, puris, eggplant pakoras, laddu and mango Lassi as the drink.<\/p>\n<p>After the offering, the prasadam was distributed to all the inmates in three different modules: men, woman and underage. Krishna Kripa explained the meaning of the prasadam, and how to eat it, then he guided the inmates (80% muslims) in the chanting of the maha-mantra. They really appreciated the prasadam and there were not leftovers. <\/p>\n<p>Krishna Kripa said to them: \u201cthis is a very special food cooked with the best spice, the love for God, and you will expirience like traveling to India without going out of  Ceuta, without going out of prison\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Krishna Kripa and his wife  had prasadam with Prison\u00b4s director as well other authorities. The director received Srila Prabhupada\u00b4s Bhagavad-gita, and others authorities Science of Self-realization. <\/p>\n<p>The program was well  covered by local and national newspapers, printing full pages and pictures. <\/p>\n<p>Vegetarians and Yoga associations congratulated the devotee couple for their service to the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Krishna Kripa and Radhapriya said: \u201call this conditioned souls had the opportunity to taste prasadam, help with the cooking and chant the holy name, we offer this victory to Srila Prabhupada and his Iskcon\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>For more pictures please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kkpd108\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kkpd108\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unt6543itled.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Krishna Kripa Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Friday 4th december, for the first time in the history of Spain\u00b4s prisons, and may be in Europe, the prisoners as well their guards ate a full classic prasadam lunch meal<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","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=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}