Lord Caitanya’s Movement – Simply Amazing!
We give books to anyone and everyone! We give books to devout people, we give books to butchers, we give books to soldiers in Iraq. We give books everywhere!
Once one of our book distributors in Holland was distributing books in the offices of a business, and the authorities didn't like it and called the police. So he ran with his books into the street. He had the box of books in front of his belly and was running and running. As the police chased him, he turned the corner into one street – but he saw that it was a dead end! He didn't know what to do. Then he saw a little alley and ran into it. It was just a back ally — just walls, no windows – but in one wall was a door. He tried the knob and it was unlocked. So he went inside. He began walking along a corridor, and soon he saw a light at the end of it. He kept walking toward the light, and when he came to the light he kept walking . . . straight onto a stage! There was loud applause! The man with the microphone said, "Ah! Here is the man with the prizes. Welcome. We were waiting for you." And he took the box of books and had them distributed to everyone in the hall. Everyone got one. Afterward the man said, "All right, what is the bill?" The devotee wrote up a nice fat bill and the man paid it.
Do you know what kind of program this was? It was a conference of butchers! Just see the munificence of Lord Caitanya's movement! When Lord Caitanya takes control, anything can happen. When devotees go out and distribute books, the books themselves find people. These are spiritual books, and they find people. It's amazing if you get into that mood: "Let the book find someone." But what kind of people the books will find – that you never know.
