{"id":97520,"date":"2022-04-14T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=97520"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:22:22","slug":"from-confusion-to-srimad-bhagavatam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=97520","title":{"rendered":"From confusion to Srimad Bhagavatam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/villa-vrindavan-firenze-publications.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  \/><br \/>\nAfter receiving a super inspiring, mercy-filled email from His Holiness Giriraj Swami, encouraging book distribution, we went out on books to cash in on the mercy.<\/p>\n<p>A nice young engineer approached our book table with many questions. He asked, \u201cI\u2019m confused in life, even though I\u2019m very successful materially, so please recommend a book that will help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cAny of these books will help. I especially recommend \u201cHiding in Unnatural Happiness\u201d and Bhagavad-gita. He took the books and donated $100.<\/p>\n<p>I thought to myself, \u201cHang on a sec. This person is very special. He is brutally honest to admit that he is confused, and he is very generous. I can\u2019t let him get away just with two books\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So I smiled and asked him, \u201cHow confused are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He again humbly admitted, \u201cLife is super confusing, and I have a lot of questions.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>So I said, \u201cActually, in that case I highly recommend Bhagavat Purana.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>I showed him the attractive eighteen volumes of Bhagavatam and explained its history and then requested him to pay the difference and take the set home with him. He gladly agreed.<\/p>\n<p>His Holiness Giriraj Swami, ki jaya! Srila Prabhupada, ki jaya!<\/p>\n<p>Yhs,<br \/>\nShastra-krt Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/villa-vrindavan-firenze-publications.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  \/>After receiving a super inspiring, mercy-filled email from His Holiness Giriraj Swami, encouraging book distribution, we went out on books to cash in on the mercy. A nice young engineer approached our book table with many questions. He asked, \u201cI\u2019m confused in life, even though I\u2019m very successful materially, so please recommend a book that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97520","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=97520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97521,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97520\/revisions\/97521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}