On just a little common ground, a book is sold

Chant Hare Krishna and be happyIn Toronto in late May, the Bhakti Bombers hit the March Against Monsanto.

Our youngest, sweetest devotee, Bhaktin Zoe, 18, led us in book distribution. She distributed over fifty books herself.

Mangala-Arti Dasi and Bhakta Alexey, by waking up at 2:30 a.m. to chant and then begin cooking, made five hundred plates of prasadam for distribution.

The rest of our team set up our vendor spots while we awaited the marchers coming down Bloor Street from Queens Park. Mangala-Arti always has brilliant execution strategies, so we offered a $7 GMO-free Vegan lunch, with an optional $10 upgrade for the Higher Taste cookbook. Fifty books went out along with the plates.

For me, the excitement and fun reached an all-time high later, when the park was slowly clearing. Then, an interesting fellow wandered over and listened to a conversation I had with two young people about the Bhagavad-gita. (They both got one.)

They left, and he asked me and a bhakta, “Are you Hare Krsnas?”

Bhakta Paul proudly smiled and said yes.

Then the fellow said, “I agree with you about reincarnation, but not the rest. I don't agree with you about anything else.”

Then he goes on for a while about how the soul is electro-magnetic. I soon offered him prasada. He declined. So I asked him whether he want to continue coming back, accepting repeated birth and death.

He leaned in and whispered, “Yes. I want to have one more birth, actually."

Paul asked, “You have some more desires to fulfill?”

The fellow gave him a modest look and said, “I have a desire, but it is a secret.”

I responded, “So you'd like to come back once more. But if you'd like to come back in a human form, you have to take this book (Chant and Be Happy).”

He replied, “OK, how much?” and reached into his pocket.

This was astounding to us, but as he said, he agrees with us on reincarnation.

Your servant,
Kathamrta Dasi

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