Parvati devi dasi: My Dear Devotees,
\n Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
\nPrabhupada. Because of technology I simply cannot understand, I am very
\nfortunate to be able to offer my Vaishnava pranams to so many devotees at
\none time. Lazy intelligence at its best!<\/p>\n
A couple days ago, I was thinking how so many of us older devotees
\n(did I say “old”?!) are dropping like flies, and many of us should have
\nthought of asking forgiveness from those we offended in the many years of
\nour service, intentional or unintentional. Right before Srila Prabhupada
\nleft, he called in his sister and many of his godbrothers to apologize for
\nwhat he may have said in the line of preaching which may have upset them.
\nWe know he never offended anyone at all, because he was so careful in the
\nway he did everything, but still, people have a way of taking things another
\nway. So he made a point of doing this. Rupa Goswami hurt one Vaishnava
\ncompletely unintentionally, yet he went out of his way to rectify the
\nmatter. And so I feel obligated to do this before it’s too late.<\/p>\n
Personally, I am known internationally as such a heavy person, that
\nwhenever I’m in the audience and the subject of the chapter on “The Wrath of
\nMother Parvati” comes up, the speaker makes a point at directing a remark
\nstraight to me, usually in a joking way. But the fact is that for many
\nyears my presence registered pretty high in the intense range. Now, even
\nI’m operating at tenth speed, people still give way out of habit.<\/p>\n
As we have experienced, we never know when our number is up. So
\nbefore I miss my opportunity, I am begging any and all of you, if for any
\nreason I have hurt you or screwed up your service, in some great or small
\nway that I should know about, kindly inform me so I can personally address
\nthe issue and pray for your forgiveness, or rectify the matter in some way
\nor other as best as I can. Better we do it this way than have to take birth
\nonce more and figure it all out all over again.<\/p>\n
Because many will not read these forums, I request the people at
\nvarious temples to post this on their notice boards or their face books
\n(another technology I simply cannot fathom) for some time to give me a
\nchance to reach these devotees. My husband cheerfully tells me that
\neveryone who knows me either loves me or hates me, but no one seems to have
\nno opinion about me. So PLEASE help me out here.<\/p>\n
I hope this meets you all well.<\/p>\n
Your servant,<\/p>\n
Parvati devi dasi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parvati devi dasi: Personally, I am known internationally as such a heavy person, that
\nwhenever I’m in the audience and the subject of the chapter on “The Wrath of
\nMother Parvati” comes up, the speaker makes a point at directing a remark
\nstraight to me, usually in a joking way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859","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=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}