A Drunk, a Car accident, a Candle & Chocolate
We were distributing books in Lithuania, in a town called Panevezys, in the former Soviet Union. I entered an old dormitory, where usually poor people live. I decided to start from the fifth floor.
Before entering the doors to the corridor of the fifth floor, I met a drunkard. He took and looked at a book, but was without money. So I wished him good luck and continued. I came to the first door, and I understood from the smell of alcohol that that drunkard went into this room. I rang the bell.
A middle-aged woman opened the door. Her face looked damaged. She looked at a book and became interested, so she immediately invited me to come in.
I was a little afraid, because sometimes its dangerous to enter such places, as some people start attacking. Her husband was sitting completely unconsciousness, his head on the table.
She started to tell a story about a car accident the day before. They were speeding along in the car over an icy road, and the car slid at high speed off the road and rolled over several times. She immediately connected as Gods mercy that I brought her this book. I explained that Bhagavad-gita can change her life and this is really God's arrangement.
So she woke up her husband, and with the help of both of us, he stood up and found a nice amount of money to donate. She was so happy that she wanted to donate something more. She gave me a nice candle and then chocolate, and than she wanted to give me coffee, but I refused.
That evening when I returned at home at night, there was no electricity for four hours so we used the candle that she donated. And the chocolate, which I took for my friend (a devotee who was eating chocolate)?
That day he was reading in the Vedabase that it is not good to eat chocolate. So he took it and the next day gave it to a small kid, and after seeing this, the boy's mother was affected and because of that also took a book.
Your eternal servant,
Vraja Kishor Das
