{"id":88942,"date":"2022-09-20T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/628138124945637376"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:14:24","slug":"srila-prabhupada-was-not-just-another-eastern-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88942","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSrila Prabhupada: For me he was a teacher, a father and a dear friend of mine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f90fb53b88612ef80cc7c1ef0982befebf9375a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f90fb53b88612ef80cc7c1ef0982befebf9375a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f90fb53b88612ef80cc7c1ef0982befebf9375a-280x187.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSrila Prabhupada was not just another Eastern scholar, guru, mystic, yoga teacher or meditation instructor. He was the embodiment of an entire culture and implanted that culture in the West. For me and many others, it was before  all someone who really cared, who completely sacrificed his comfort to work for the good of others. He had no private life, but lived only for others. He taught spiritual sciences, philosophy, common sense, art, languages, style of  Vedic life: hygiene, nutrition, medicine, etiquette, family life, agriculture, social organization, education, economy and much more for many people. For me he was a teacher, a father and a dear friend of mine \u201d.<br \/>\n  Mukunda Goswami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/6e4ff880dd179cd0151e6619bd19e104\/7d0639d665aeaa64-37\/s500x750\/8f90fb53b88612ef80cc7c1ef0982befebf9375a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Srila Prabhupada was not just another Eastern scholar, guru, mystic, yoga teacher or meditation instructor. He was the embodiment of an entire culture and implanted that culture in the West.<\/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-88942","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\/88942","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=88942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88953,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88942\/revisions\/88953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}