Transcendental Time Bomb Finally Went Off
by Vijaya Dasa
While in Mayapur at a seminar given by Jayadvaita Swami, I was sitting next to a young devotee, Jean, who had recently joined. During a break I asked him how he had found his way to Krishna consciousness.
He said, "My sister was attending high school and was known at the school as an avid reader. One day the librarian asked if she would like to have some books that had been gathering a lot of dust. My sister took the whole box of them. As she was looking through them she found a copy of the Srimad-Bhagavatam's Second Canto, and knowing that I was interested in religious philosophy, she gave it to me. I read it and was convinced that I had found the highest religious philosophy. Thank Krishna that a sincere devotee once visited that high school and left that book!"
Next year Jean, who is aspiring to be initiated by Radhanatha Swami, will live at the Radha-Gopinatha temple in Chowpatty. Who knows how long that book was sitting at his school? It was probably there for many years. But eventually its effect was felt; the transcendental time bomb finally went off.
There are millions of such time bombs all over the world, and the more we increase our distribution of them, the more they will go off.
