{"id":542,"date":"2022-01-28T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themonkspodcast.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:45:48","slug":"humor-in-krishna-consciousness-the-monks-podcast-63-with-pyari-mohan-pr-and-brahmatirtha-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themonkspodcast.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/humor-in-krishna-consciousness-the-monks-podcast-63-with-pyari-mohan-pr-and-brahmatirtha-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor in Krishna consciousness The Monk&#8217;s Podcast 63 with Pyari Mohan Pr and Brahmatirtha Pr"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"542\" class=\"elementor elementor-542\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-420ce719 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"420ce719\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3df2b175\" data-id=\"3df2b175\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4767d783 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4767d783\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UzKm1gcEPhA\",\"type\":\"video\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"youtube\",\"responsive\":true,\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Humor in Krishna consciousness - The Monk&#039;s Podcast 63 with Pyari Mohan Pr and Brahmatirtha Pr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzKm1gcEPhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyari Mohan das was born in Brooklyn, New York. Upon completing his high school education he spent four years in the Navy, then one year travelling throughout North America searching for the purpose of life.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he ended up back in New York City where he visited a Hare Krishna temple for the first time, located on Henry Street in Brooklyn. After attending three Sunday Feast programs he began going to the temple everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Pyari assisted the printing of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books at ISKCON Press, located a few blocks from the Brooklyn temple. One day the press rented a truck to deliver the books for binding to a bindery in Nashua, New Hampshire and Pyari went along to help. On the trip back to New York they stopped at the Boston temple for the night, where Krishna revealed to Pyari that the Boston temple was where he should move in, not the Fiji temple where Pyari had been contemplating moving to.<\/p>\n<p>Thus in 1971, at 23 years old, Pyari moved into the Boston temple, located at 40 North Beacon Street in Allston. He was one of the oldest devotees living in the temple at the time. Pyari Mohan was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in April of 1972. While part of the Boston temple he first became the treasurer, then went out all day on harinama sankirtana. 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