Ninety Three Year Old Lady Gets the Mercy
SOFIA, Bulgaria One morning during the recent Prabhupada marathon, shortly after arriving at our sankirtan spot, I opened a box full of Srimad-Bhagavatams. A curious lady came by and looked over my shoulder. She was ninety-three years old!
"What is this?" she asked.
Usually such old people don't buy anything; they just tell us how big their library is and how learned they are. Expecting she was like that, I tried to at least give her the Holy Name. "This is for Krishna!", I said.
"What?" she asked.
I almost shouted, "This is for KRISHNA, the SUPREME LORD! KRISHNA!"
"Can you show me a book, son?"
"Yes, mother." Something in my heart told me, "She can take a few books." After I had quickly described a little about the three Bhagavatam volumes were brought, she took all three books and gave all the money she had with her a good donation. She had been raised in an atheist family and was just waiting for ninety-three years to find the treasure of her life, the Srimad-Bhagavatam (although she didn't know it).
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, you inspire all the devotees around the world to distribute books. This year forty-three devotees from Sofia distributed books during the marathon. It is because of your association that they distributed more books then the last nine Prabhupada Marathons! We greatly appreciate your service of inspiring devotees to distribute books. That your personal distribution is not so big is not so bad. We are sure that Srila Prabhupada is very pleased with you. Dear prabhu please let all the devotees on BDN read this few last words if it is posible.
Your servant,
Sthanu Dasa
