{"id":820,"date":"2006-08-14T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2007-02-02T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:47:10","slug":"extremists-dodgy-buggage-handlers-detachement-and-dandavats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Extremists, dodgy baggage handlers, detachment and dandavats!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Praghosa dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

After spending an enlivening evening at Bhaktivedanta Manor for the annual Patron’s Dinner on Saturday, my thoughts started to turn towards Jamashtami and Vyasa Puja preparations back in Ireland.<\/p>\n

So after a late night (the Patron’s Dinner is a grand affair that doesn’t generally finish till 11pm) we were up at 4.30am to catch a 6.30am flight back to Dublin. <\/p>\n

London Heathrow was unusually quiet given the recent terrorist alert, this was a pleasent surprise but it didn’t last long. Firstly our flight was cancelled and we were put on the 9.15am flight instead. Then we were forced to put ALL our luggage in the hold which also meant my laptop (or as my good wife refers to it – my baby :-). <\/p>\n

Eventually when we arrived in Dublin the first alarm bell was that our luggage didn’t arrive with us, even though it was checked in three hours beforehand. We were then told it would arrive on the next British Midland flight later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Many hours later when our luggage did eventually arrive, both bags were there but my laptop and mobile phone were not inside. Initially my mind went into a tailspin and was registering, at a rate of knots, all the inconveniences that now awaited me.<\/p>\n

Not least of these was the fact that Dandavats would not now be updated as speedily as it should be. All of our readers might reasonably assume that the Editor and his team were total space cadets, when in fact the circumstances were completely beyond our control.<\/p>\n

One devotee recently mentioned to me that laptops are both an extension of the brain as well as a wonderful storage facility for all the information that the brain cannot retain. How true was that, I was now thinking, and even though I had done a complete backup of my data two months ago, the loss was still hitting hard.<\/p>\n

After a while I began to apply some philosophy to the situation. I tried to separate what was inconvenient for my service from what was little more than attachment on my part.<\/p>\n

Krishna tells us in the Bhagavad gita that vita-raja (freedom from attachment) is essential for controlling the mind. He also tells us that nirasir nirmamo (without desire for profit and ownership) is how we should perform our devotional service.<\/p>\n

So now I am getting over the trauma of losing my baby while not acting like one by throwing a tantrum. <\/p>\n

My concern now though is perhaps the muslims extremists are not after George Bush after all but rather their real goal is to sabotage the Dandavats website! :-)<\/p>\n

Your laptop grieving servant,<\/p>\n

Praghosa dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"HareBy Praghosa das<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we arrived in Dublin the first alarm bell was that our luggage didn’t arrive with us even, though it was checked in three hours beforehand. We were then told it would arrive on the next flight later in the afternoon. Eventually when our luggage did arrive both bags were there but my laptop and mobile phone were not inside. Initially my mind went into a tailspin and was registering, at a rate of knots, all the inconveniences that now awaited me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-praghosa-dasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}