{"id":98380,"date":"2022-06-09T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=98380"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:03:07","slug":"he-got-a-book-then-became-a-book-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=98380","title":{"rendered":"He got a book then became a book distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IBD-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 533px;\"><\/p>\n<p>\n    We set up a book table at a local college that we usually go to, only to find that a permit was required on that particular day.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Thankfully, as we were setting up, a nice boy from the booth across kindly offered us his permit, since he was leaving. We gave him a couple books in exchange for his kindness.<\/p>\n<p>\n    He told us that he had been searching online how to become a monk, and he gladly took the books.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Then he called us yesterday, saying that he wants to come read the books with the devotees, because that&#8217;s what the Gita recommends. So we invited him last night for Romapada Swami&#8217;s talk.<\/p>\n<p>\n    And today he went with us on book distribution. He brought his sister with him as well. So many Indians were surprised to see African Americans helping us distribute Gitas.<\/p>\n<p>\n    My guru says, \u201cDistributing books is only half the service. Helping people understand the books and engaging them in service is the other half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n    Your servant,<br \/>\n    Sastrakrit Dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbookdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IBD-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 533px;\">We set up a book table at a local college that we usually go to, only to find that a permit was required on that particular day. Thankfully, as we were setting up, a nice boy from the booth across kindly offered us his permit, since he was leaving. We gave him a couple books<\/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-98380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380","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=98380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98381,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98380\/revisions\/98381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}