{"id":133388,"date":"2023-03-30T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133388"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:30:27","slug":"high-commissioner-moragoda-meets-with-the-president-of-iskcon-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/30\/high-commissioner-moragoda-meets-with-the-president-of-iskcon-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>High Commissioner Moragoda meets with the President of ISKCON Mumbai &nbsp;<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Media Release Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commission in India<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda who is on an official visit to the State of Maharashtra met with the President of the Mumbai center of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Shri Brajhari Das at the Society\u2019s center in Juhu today 2032.03.30. The day also marks the <em>Ram Navami<\/em>, a Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of Lord Rama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, otherwise known as the Hare Krishna movement, includes five hundred major centers, temples and rural communities, nearly one hundred affiliated vegetarian restaurants, thousands of local meeting groups, a wide variety of community projects, and millions of congregational members worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISKCON, which belongs to the <em>Gaudiya-Vaishnava samprad\u0101ya<\/em>, a monotheistic tradition within the Vedic or Hindu culture, was founded by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup\u0101da in New York City in 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Consul General in Mumbai Dr. Valsan Vethody also joined High Commissioner Moragoda in the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In keeping with his policy roadmap &#8220;Integrated Country Strategy for Sri Lanka Diplomatic Missions in India&#8221;, High Commissioner Moragoda has been promoting dialogue with all major religions in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Release Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commission in India Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda who is on an official visit to the State of Maharashtra met with the President of the Mumbai center of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Shri Brajhari Das at the Society\u2019s center in Juhu today 2032.03.30. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}