Everything must go

* We just thought of trying out sunnyvale hindu temple as our book distribution spot and we were a little skeptical before the weekend because some one said that they disallowed us selling our books there. We still went ahead anyway and over the weekend, we did around 900 books and collected close to $1400 'just near parking lot'.

* I met one guy today and was about to hand him Bhagavad-Gita. He said that he tried every thing in his life (Art of living, Ramana maharshi, Krishnamurti - not the Giddu, etc etc..) and felt a little frustrated and disgusted about all the spiritualism and was trying to figure out things on his own and leading a life free from attachment, anger etc.. I remembered some parallels between what he was explaining and what I read about similar kind of people mentioned in BG 4.10 by Srila Prabhupada. I immediately flipped pages and read a few lines of that purport which read : "Furthermore there are many persons who cannot understand spiritual existence at all. Being embarrassed by so many theories and by contradictions of various types of philosophical speculation, they become disgusted or angry and foolishly conclude that there is no supreme cause and that everything is ultimately void...." He got impressed that people like him are being mentioned in the Bhagavad-Gita. We had a long conversation and in the end he took a book pack and Gita and gave $20.

* Praveena met one young Indian man whose name was 'Krishna Chaitanya Kapila' :-) He hails from a pious family and his grand father gave him that name and apparently their ancestors are devotees of Chaitanya maha prabhu. He did not have any cash to buy the Gita. He sent his friends to a nearby store to buy some thing with credit card and get 'cash back' from the counter and with that they purchased the Gita :-)

* 'Everything must go' suited quite aptly to our campaign today as we were left with not a single book at the end of the day :-) Hold on!! Just as we were thinking like this, Praveena discovered a Bhagavad-Gita lying in her handbag. She felt bad that we could not distribute 'every thing' that we took and one book was still remaining. She was lamenting and thinking that how nice it will be if she can distribute that Gita some how. And when we came and parked at the temple, some one ran up to Praveena and asked her (what are the odds?) if she had a 'Hardbound Bhagavad-Gita'. What a magic from Krishna!! Praveena gleefully responded to her request by distributing the only remaining Gita and got a $20 bill.

Ys

Kishore