{"id":1497,"date":"2018-11-23T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2018-11-22T00:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:04:42","slug":"i-traveled-with-srila-prabhupada-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/i-traveled-with-srila-prabhupada-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"I traveled with Srila Prabhupada to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-1-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-1-3-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-1-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-1-3.png 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photo Pastime<\/p>\n<p>Jaya Gouranga Dasa : I traveled with Srila Prabhupada to Mexico and there he was kind enough to give me first and second initiation at the same time, because I had been waiting since I joined in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>When Prabhupada was about to give me my name, he was looking at me very intensely for about 20 seconds, and then he said, &#8220;Your name is Jaya Gouranga Dasa.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t understand what he said but I said, &#8220;Thank you Srila Prabhupada,&#8221; and I threw myself at his lotus feet to pay dandavats and as you can see in the picture I&#8217;m sending you, where you can see my legs on the floor paying dandavats and Prabhupada was laughing as well as everyone else because as I was paying dandavats. Srila Prabhupada said, &#8220;He looks like Gouranga,&#8221; and that&#8217;s why he and everybody else laughed.<\/p>\n<p>I say Prabhupada was seeing Gouranga everywhere and was much too kind to say that about a wretched, fallen conditioned soul like myself. All glories, all glories to our Divine Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: FB post of Gaura Dasa<\/p>\n<p># Prabhupada Lila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Pastime Jaya Gouranga Dasa : I traveled with Srila Prabhupada to Mexico and there he was kind enough to give me first and second initiation at the same time, because I had been waiting since &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/i-traveled-with-srila-prabhupada-to-mexico\/\" aria-label=\"I traveled with Srila Prabhupada to Mexico\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 17:43:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}