{"id":97614,"date":"2022-04-19T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=97614"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:05:05","slug":"a-super-favorable-scientist-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=97614","title":{"rendered":"A super favorable scientist from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kmnccJK.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a little quiet at my book table, so I was reading a verse from the Gita for inspiration. And then I hear someone saying, \u201cHaribol! Haribol!\u201c<\/p>\n<p>I looked up. It was this super-favourable scientist and gentleman named Leo, from China. He met devotees 25 years ago in Shanghai and became a vegetarian. Devotees left a great impression on him.<\/p>\n<p>He gave a nice donation and took a Gita and a couple of Chinese books and an invitation to our ashram. To my surprise, he showed up that evening at our ashram for kirtan and dinner.<\/p>\n<p>He told me during dinner that he had the desire to read the Gita his whole life, but never came across a copy. Even his Buddhist guru quotes the Gita a lot!<\/p>\n<p>Your humble servant,<br \/>\nShastra-krit Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kmnccJK.jpeg\" \/>It was a little quiet at my book table, so I was reading a verse from the Gita for inspiration. And then I hear someone saying, \u201cHaribol! Haribol!\u201c I looked up. It was this super-favourable scientist and gentleman named Leo, from China. He met devotees 25 years ago in Shanghai and became a vegetarian. Devotees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97614","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=97614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97615,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97614\/revisions\/97615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}