I Only Read Books by Swami Prabhupada
by Jaya Gurudeva Dasa
In the late seventies, I was distributing books in a parking lot in front of a huge shopping mall in Switzerland, just on the border of Germany and Austria. It is still a very popular place for neighbouring Germans and Austrians particularly on weekends. It was a busy Friday afternoon, and I was going from car to car, offering ‘nourishment for the soul' in the form of transcendental literature. As I approached one car from Germany, an old lady about seventy was putting her shopping bags in the trunk of her car. When she saw me, assuming that I was some peddler, she waved me off, saying she wouldn't buy anything. I then showed her a book, and she exclaimed; "Ah, this is a different story! Of course I´m interested. I love to read Indian books but only by Swami Prabhupada!"
"Then I have what you want", I answered and showed her a picture of Srila Prabhupada in the Srimad Bhagavatam. She took the latest volumes of the German BBT editions of Srila Prabhupada's Srimad Bhagavatam, and of course a copy of the Bhagavad-gita, Wie Sie Ist. She gave a nice donation and left me standing flabbergasted, as I waved goodbye to her.
