{"id":85405,"date":"2022-12-13T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/174406574536"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:55:51","slug":"gossip-it-will-destroy-this-movementmelbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=85405","title":{"rendered":"Srila Prabhupada: \u201cGossip! It will Destroy this Movement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a438767780578329cb495057582f0f75\/tumblr_p9jvjxtcTW1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"  width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGossip! It will Destroy this Movement\u201d<br \/>\nMelbourne Temple, 14 Burnett Street, St. Kilda, Thursday, 6 April 1972<br \/>\n\u2018Behind Srila Prabhupada\u2019s room was a tiny, two-metre square kitchenette. There, each day, Citralekha would prepare rasagullas for Prabhupada, who ate the sweets daily with his breakfast. Around mid-morning, Upendra would start to prepare Prabhupada\u2019s lunch.<br \/>\nA couple of devotees entered the kitchen while Upendra was cooking. Before too long, Upendra, as was his sometimes frivolous habit, had reduced the conversation to a mundane gossip session.<br \/>\nAfter the devotees left the kitchen, Prabhupada, from his adjoining room, suddenly called for Upendra in an angry voice. \u201cUpendra, come in here!\u201d Upendra ran in. Prabhupada looked disturbed.<br \/>\n\u201cYes, Srila Prabhupada?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat were you doing?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI was just talking to some devotees in the kitchen \u2026\u201d<br \/>\nPrabhupada shook his head in disgust. &#8220;Gossip! It will destroy this movement.\u201d<br \/>\nAfter a few moments Prabhupada dismissed Upendra who, visibly shaken, offered his obeisances and left the room.<br \/>\nCitralekha recalls: \u201cUpendra immediately came downstairs and related the whole incident. He was mortified, as usual, from Prabhupada\u2019s chastisement. I guess he needed it because Upendra loved to gossip. I don\u2019t know whether Upendra was able to take the lesson to heart, but I certainly did. From that day, I made a conscious effort never to gossip about devotees.\u2019<br \/>\n&#8211; From &#8220;The Great Transcendental Adventure\u201d by Kurma Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a438767780578329cb495057582f0f75\/tumblr_p9jvjxtcTW1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Gossip! It will Destroy this Movement&rdquo;<br \/>\nMelbourne Temple, 14 Burnett Street, St. Kilda, Thursday, 6 April 1972<br \/>\n&lsquo;Behind Srila Prabhupada&rsquo;s room was a tiny, two-metre square kitchenette. There, each day, Citralekha would prepare rasagullas for Prabhupada, who ate the sweets daily with his breakfast. Around mid-morning, Upendra would start to prepare Prabhupada&rsquo;s lunch.<\/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-85405","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\/85405","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=85405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104532,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85405\/revisions\/104532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}