Nice End for a Heavy Day
Please accept our humble obeisances,
Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
On our Sri Narasimha marathon we were traveling in central and eastern Finland, in areas called Savo and Karjala. Different flavors of tamo-guna, mixed with a pinch of rajo-guna. Savo especially has a reputation for being a heavy place for distribution. One day we were in Kuopio, the main city of Savo. The fact that I needed to drive our car back and forth to the repair shop didn’t make things easier.
We had a 250km drive in the evening, so we had to stop a little early. I distributed for some four hours and got a not so glorious total of 3 books out.
I was carrying a Srimad-Bhagavatam set with me that day. Some 7 years earlier in Kuopio, at an office, a person of a right-wing political party had taken 6 books from me, and I had meditated since then on distributing a Srimad-Bhagavatam set to members of the party. The right person was not in the office and didn’t answer her phone either, but I tried a couple of other shops and offices besides distributing in the street.
I ended up at a new-age place where there was library of some hundreds of books, including some of our books. The ladies there where not much into it, but they gave me the cell phone number of the man who oversaw the library. Just before the end of the day I called him. He was just then driving from the city of Joensuu to Kuopio; Joensuu was where we were going, so we made an appointment to meet on the road.
When we met, the man immediately agreed to take the Bhagavatam set and gave a reasonable donation. (We have a special campaign for selling Bhagavatam sets, and I could give him quite a low price.)
Two thoughts came to my mind: If we make the effort to always keep a set of books with us, Krsna will arrange that someone takes it. Also, although I often use so much energy speaking for a long time about our books on the street, it is not always necessary. If Krsna arranges, people can take many books smoothly and easily.
Your Servant,
Muniraja Dasa
