{"id":18,"date":"2009-01-17T03:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T08:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hislotusfeet.net\/?p=18"},"modified":"2016-09-11T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T15:58:18","slug":"dada-vishvadevananda-the-new-purodha-pramukha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Dada Vishvadevananda, The New Purodha Pramukha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/admin-ajax-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"admin-ajax\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/>I want to start with the first picture of the second newly elected Purodha Pramukha and President of Ananda Marga (AMPS), Ac. Vishvadevananda Avadhuta. He\u2019s young, tall, and I must say dashing. He must be in the middle of 50\u2019s. He replaces Rev. Ac. Shraddhananda Avadhuta who passed away on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\">the 15<sup>th<\/sup> of October, 2008<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\"> in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\">Ranchi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\"> at the age of 92. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\"> Fortunately, I was introduced to new PP when we visited <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\">Ranchi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\">, the headquarters of AMPS. The only thing I remember during that brief encounter was his question, \u201chow\u2019s your trip?\u201d I can\u2019t remember my answer, I\u2019m that nervous believe me. He\u2019s on his padmasana on his bed as his cot while I\u2019m on the floor staring at him. Although I don\u2019t recall having met him or hearing his name before, my salutation and respect for him doesn\u2019t diminish a bit. He has served as the Acting General Secretary of Ananda Marga since 2003; became a Sannyasi(monk) in 1972 ( btw, I was initiated the same year, too); and has served in different capacities including Mahasachiv of Ananda Marga Gurukul University at Ananda Nagar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;\"> In his address after the announcement of his election as Purodha Pramukha, he encouraged all of us devotees and Acaryas to work in harmony and united to serve the suffering humanity. He reminded us the comprehensive, multi-demensional philosophy of Baba, Shrii Shrii Anandamurtijii as an antidote for deep problems faced by the world today. He emphasized our responsibilities to respond to challenges our humanity is facing in all walks of life. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to start with the first picture of the second newly elected Purodha Pramukha and President of Ananda Marga (AMPS), Ac. Vishvadevananda Avadhuta. He\u2019s young, tall, and I must say dashing. He must be in the middle of 50\u2019s. He replaces Rev. Ac. Shraddhananda Avadhuta who passed away on the 15th of October, 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ananda-marga","tag-purodha-pramukha","tag-vishvadevananada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hislotusfeet.net\/jyoti\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}