A Visit to the orient
Hare Krsna Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Whie visiting Taiwan, I asked my hostess, Krsna Bhavna Dasi, how she came to Krsna consciousness. She said that a sankirtana devotee had approached her aunt to distribute a Bhagavad Gita to her; the devotee was putting some presure on her to take it, but she was reluctant.
He didn't give up: "This is your culture (she's from India), you should learn about your own culture."
Finally she agreed to take the book and give a donation just to get out of the circumstance she was in. She didn't read it, but when her niece was visiting her home, she said she wanted to read the Bhagavad Gita.
Her aunt said, "Oh, I have one. You can read mine."
She read it and is now initiated and a book distributor in Taipei, and she encourages others to get involved. Recently, about fifteen of us went to downtown Taipei to distribute books.
This story may not be over; the book is still there in her aunt's house, waiting, tick, tick, tick…
There was another interesting story of how someone came to receive Krsna's mercy. Mr. Jo had heard something about the Bhagavad Gita and wanted to read it but couldn't find it in Taipei. He was cleaning his house and wanted to get rid of a number of books that he was no longer interested in. In Taipei, the libraries have a program by which if someone donates books they can take books that the library doesn't want. So he went to the library to donate his books, and the librarian then gave him a choice of books to take. As he was looking through them he saw the Bhagavad Gita As It Is. He was so happy to see it and told the librarian, "This is the only one I want." Now he has been a devotee for the past ten years; he's 65 and is a retired government worker. So now he has more time for Krsna.
Your Servant,
Vijaya Das
