{"id":80491,"date":"2019-12-03T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=80491"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:51:51","slug":"a-poem-for-our-book-distributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=80491","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for our Book Distributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahamantra das: For you book distributors<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written a song<br \/>\nThe feast&#8217;s coming soon<br \/>\nSo I won&#8217;t keep you long<\/p>\n<p>This message for you &#8211;<br \/>\nThe Gita makes clear<br \/>\nKrishna loves His devotees<br \/>\nAnd holds them all dear<\/p>\n<p>Whether male or female<br \/>\nBrahmacari, householder<br \/>\nGo give out the mercy<br \/>\n>From the bag on your shoulder<\/p>\n<p>The key to success<br \/>\nIs pleasing Prabhupada<br \/>\nBeneath the austerity<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s bliss to be had<\/p>\n<p>Something we&#8217;d all do<br \/>\nWell to remember<br \/>\nDistribute Prabhupada&#8217;s<br \/>\nBooks in December<\/p>\n<p>Then the kingdom of God<br \/>\nIs your rightful claim<br \/>\nHelp me out with a chorus<br \/>\nOf the holy names<\/p>\n<p>This Bhagavata Purana<br \/>\nIs brilliant as the sun<br \/>\nThe main source of light<br \/>\nNow Kali Yuga&#8217;s begun<\/p>\n<p>These books will advise<br \/>\nThe whole population<br \/>\nAnd save countless souls<br \/>\nThe misguided nation<\/p>\n<p>Til loving devotion&#8217;s<br \/>\nIrrevocable fact<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all of our dutys<br \/>\nTo go out and act<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excuse me young man<br \/>\nI bought one of your books<br \/>\nI took it away<br \/>\nAnd gave it a look<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the contents<br \/>\nI came over quirky<br \/>\nI went to the fridge<br \/>\nAnd I threw out the turkey<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m a veggie<br \/>\nI just eat prasada<br \/>\nCome join me in chanting<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s really not hard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahamantra das: For you book distributors I&#8217;ve written a song The feast&#8217;s coming soon So I won&#8217;t keep you long  This message for you The Gita makes clear Krishna loves His devotees And holds them all dear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80491","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=80491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80493,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80491\/revisions\/80493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}