{"id":85031,"date":"2022-12-22T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/179680966851"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:56:32","slug":"when-being-completely-brainwashed-is-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=85031","title":{"rendered":"When being completely \u201cbrainwashed\u201d is a blessing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When being completely \u201cbrainwashed\u201d is a blessing.
\nSwarup Hebel: Some time ago I received what I considered to be a very nice compliment right here on Facebook. Someone wrote in a personal message, \u201cI have been reading your posts and comments for the past two weeks and it seems to me that you don\u2019t have a single solitary original thought or idea in your head and that you are completely brainwashed by Swami Bhaktivedanta.\u201d Such praise coming from a complete stranger touched me deeply.
\nIn a lecture given in Vrindavana, October 22, 1972 Srila Prabhupada said \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201c\u0100c\u0101ryas will never say, \u2018I think.\u2019 ‘It is in my opinion.\u2019 No. Such things are not accepted. No personal opinion. It must be supported by Vedic evidences. That is called parampar\u0101 system, genuine system of understanding. As K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a says, eva\u1e41 parampar\u0101-pr\u0101ptam ima\u1e41 r\u0101jar\u1e63ayo vidu\u1e25 (BG 4.2). No change. Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is. We do not change. We have no power to change. Then where is the authority of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101? I am a third-class man, and if I change the statements in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, then where is the authority of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101? That is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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When being completely “brainwashed” is a blessing.
\nSwarup Hebel: Some time ago I received what I considered to be a very nice compliment right here on Facebook. Someone wrote in a personal message, “I have been reading your posts and comments for the past two weeks and it seems to me that you don’t have a single solitary original thought or idea in your head and that you are completely brainwashed by Swami Bhaktivedanta.” Such praise coming from a complete stranger touched me deeply.<\/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-85031","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\/85031","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=85031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104794,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85031\/revisions\/104794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}