{"id":84826,"date":"2020-04-20T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=84826"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:19:58","slug":"hg-karnamrita-das-acbsp-passes-away-due-to-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=84826","title":{"rendered":"HG Karnamrita Das (ACBSP) passes away due to Covid19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/m9BtukJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Not to be confused with the other Karnamrita Prabhu ACBSP whose legal name is (Christopher John Cox))<\/p>\n<p>His son in law, Jai Baladev Das, wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a heavy heart we\u2019re sad to announce that Karnamrita Das (Brian Soul), disciple of Srila Prabhupada and father to Jahnavee Soul, left his body this morning due to Covid19. \u201cHe spent over a month in the hospital, originally for pneumonia and sepsis, fought for a long time, but at some point also contracted the coronavirus while he was there. Despite not being able to be there with him or communicate with him much because of the lockdown, we were able to arrange for kirtan to be playing for him the last couple days and at the time of his departure. Even in his near-unconscious state, the nurses heard him singing and they also became appreciative of the kirtan. The association of a devotee is so powerful that even in such a condition as he was, the power and love of the holy name shines through. We will miss him dearly, but know the soul is never vanquished and he has moved on to a better place. Please pray for his journey, that Krishna protect him and bring him back to the shelter of His lotus feet. Hare Krishna.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><!--Karnamrta was a talented English devotee, initiated by Srila Prabhupada in Vrndavana in late 1975: an artist (painter), a preacher, a Sanskrit scholar (translated Jiva Gosvami's Harinamamrta-vyakarana into English), an exceptional poet, an expert singer and musician. Reclusive in his final years, he passed away hearing Srila Prabhupada's bhajana. Here is a sonnet composed by him:\nI prithee Lord, let me remember Thee\nWhen time would have me quit this mortal coil\nThat I had erst maintained with pains and toil,\nThough bound in chains, but thought it liberty.\nMy master vowed You'd enter in my mind\nIf I could keep the vow I made to him\nTo strive to make me pure and free from sin.\nAnd he did ope' my eyes that had been blind.\nHe promised if I daily tell my rounds,\nTranscendent names, most holy living sounds,\nThat Thou wilt bless me with Thy mercy kind,\nAnd save me from the hell my fate propounds.<!-- --><br \/>\n<!--<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pzwvAFM.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/m9BtukJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a heavy heart we\u2019re sad to announce that Karnamrita Das (Brian Soul), disciple of Srila Prabhupada and father to Jahnavee Soul, left his body this morning due to Covid19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84826","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=84826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}