{"id":6124,"date":"2018-04-15T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2018-04-26T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:00:25","slug":"princeton-bhakti-vedanta-institute-march-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/2018\/04\/15\/princeton-bhakti-vedanta-institute-march-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute Report &#8211; March 24, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Rama Navami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lt;excerpt&gt; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Sripad Puri Maharaja began the disucssion by asking our guests if they had<br \/>\never heard of Sri Ram? \u201cHe appeared millions of years ago in Treta Yuga in<br \/>\nAyodhya (Uttar Pradesh), India. Some think He appeared only 5000 years<br \/>\nago, but there is scriptural support that it was much more than that. There<br \/>\nare four yugas (Satya, Treta, Dwarpa and Kali yuga) which are like the<br \/>\neras\/seasons of the universe. We are presently in Kali-yuga which is like the<br \/>\nwinter of the universe in which everything is in decay. Today\u2019s scientists<br \/>\nclaim that 13.8 billion years ago the universe was created from a big bang.<br \/>\nThey have difficulty accepting that during Rama\u2019s era there was an<br \/>\nadvanced human civilization in which Ram appeared as an incarnation of<br \/>\nKrishna,\u201d Sripad Puri Maharaja said. \u201cSri Ram was a perfect king. He is<br \/>\nknown as \u2018Maryada Purushottama,\u2019 which means a person of superlative<br \/>\ncharacter. Everything in His kingdom was being conducted according to<br \/>\nthe laws of dharma (religion).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading &#8211;<\/p>\n<div class=\"downLink\"><a title=\"Link to pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/?download=Princeton_BVI_Report_03-24-18.pdf\">Click here to Download<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"dl_cntr\" title=\"Download Counter\">(downloads \u2013 [downloadcounter(Princeton_BVI_Report_03-24-18.pdf)])<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: left; padding-top: 15px;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rama Navami &lt;excerpt&gt; &#8211; Sripad Puri Maharaja began the disucssion by asking our guests if they had ever heard of Sri Ram? \u201cHe appeared millions of years ago in Treta Yuga in Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), India. Some think He appeared only 5000 years ago, but there is scriptural support that it was much more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","category-science-of-krsna-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mahaprabhu.net\/satsanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}