{"id":87816,"date":"2020-07-24T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87816"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:25:12","slug":"protecting-dharma-threats-and-opportunities-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87816","title":{"rendered":"Protecting dharma &#8211; Threats and Opportunities (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EaWE3Xp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The challenges that the Vedic culture is facing in contemporary India. Local governments taking over temples&#8217; assets, materialistic media deriding religious practices, famous Bollywood movies and actors in a mission against Vedic traditions, Christian conversions by unfair methods, communistic propaganda, western influence, the Muslim presence, cheating gurus, casteism, lack of an organized defense, how is Iskcon prepared to contribute in confronting this Kali-yuga degradation in the and of dharma?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<h3>Click below to start the player<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protecting dharma - Threats and Opportunities - The Monk&#039;s Podcast 42 with Srinandanandan Prabhu\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtpHSh2mQP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa)<br \/>\nStephen has put the culmination of over forty years of continuous research, sadhana practice and travel experience into his books in an effort to share it with those who are also looking for higher levels of spiritual understanding. Full descriptions of all of his books, plus numerous articles he has written, and many more resources can be found here on his website. https:\/\/www.stephen-knapp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uEF99U6.jpg\"\/><strong>By The Monk&#8217;s Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The challenges that the Vedic culture is facing in contemporary India. Local governments taking over temples&#8217; assets, materialistic media deriding religious practices, famous Bollywood movies and actors in a mission against Vedic traditions, Christian conversions by unfair methods, communistic propaganda, western influence, the Muslim presence, cheating gurus, casteism, lack of an organized defense, how is Iskcon prepared to contribute to confronting this Kali-yuga degradation in the land of dharma?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87816","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=87816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87821,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87816\/revisions\/87821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}