{"id":86581,"date":"2020-06-19T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86581"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:01:14","slug":"a-word-of-caution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86581","title":{"rendered":"A word of caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lmEyB28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I take Bhakti Charu Maharaja getting Covid as a sign from Krishna that this dangerous pandemic is far from over and devotees are not immune from its effects. I take it as Krishna warning us to not relax our guard. We need to be very careful personally and in making sure that the devotees in our care stay vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>I find that sankirtan devotees \/ book distributors are taking dangerous risks by mixing with people closer than 6 feet \/ 2 meters and not wearing proper masks etc. It is due to their deep compassion for the conditioned souls. But we as leaders need to counsel them to stay safe&#8211;and monitor the situation to make sure that they do. These great souls will take their lead from us and we need to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>Your servant,<\/p>\n<p>Badrinarayan Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lmEyB28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lmEyB28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I take Bhakti Charu Maharaja getting Covid as a sign from Krishna that this dangerous pandemic is far from over and devotees are not immune from its effects. I take it as Krishna warning us to not relax our guard. We need to be very careful personally and in making sure that the devotees in our care stay vigilant.<\/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-86581","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\/86581","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=86581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}