Los Angeles SD Newsletter Vol.3 Issue 22
LILAS
“G-Love and the Special Sauce”
Jïäna-cakñuç däsa (USA)
Dear Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Here are two stories from the previous Friday, the 12th. While out with Bhakta (Rupa) Richard of Denver, we were talking about increasing the amount of donations that we would accept from the donators. The amount of $50 was thrown out.
We went from the van to the parking lots here in Missouri for a shot at it. As it turned out, one very tall and hard to miss dark-skinned man came out of a cafe to find me waiting for him at his Corvette. He easily listened to the comments about the facts in the books, cover to cover. He then walked to the nearest bank machine and asked how much the book was? The amount $50 was mentioned and he told me to give him some change for $60. It turned out that this man was a former professional athlete in some sport and works in town as a consultant. His name is Lee Buckley. Maybe someone has heard of him?
That same night, Bhakta Andreas of New York and I went to the “G-Love and the Special Sauce” concert at the City Market here in Kansas City. This singer is pretty well known in the states and is starting to become a bit more political in his song writing. G-Love and myself had a few encounters together here and there around the country. Since Andreas and I went to the concert early, we got to meet with him. Because of my shaved head he had trouble recognizing me. But after briefly talking with him, he was happy to see me again. He was introduced to Bhakta Andreas, who purified G-Love with one of Srila Prabhpada’s books. He was only willing to take one and revealed that he already had Sri Isopanisad. There were also two ladies present who wanted to get their pictures taken with G-Love, so I took the picture.
The night went smoothly as we distributed outside of the concert to all who arrived. At the end, right before leaving, the same two ladies who got their picture taken got the last books distributed that night and gave $20.
