Preaching in rural Arkansas
Hare Krsna,
Today we drove two hours to Winthorp, Arkansas; population: 186.
Driving through the town, we saw a few shops closed and dilapidated. Now there was no one there except a dog scavaging around. We drove onward, two miles out of town, to visit Alfred.
He had telephoned the Dallas temple after finding a Bhagavad-gita As It Is in a secondhand bookstore in Hot Springs. He was interested in the philosophy. He showed us his acquisitions from bookstores: two Bhagavad-gitas; Srimad Bhagavatam, Second Canto, Part Two; Higher Taste, and Chant and Be Happy.
We spent two hours discussing philosophy and having a short kirtan with Alfred and Debra, his wife. Then we presented a Science of Self Realisation and a BTG and explained practicing Krishna consciousness at home. Alfred took japa beads and learned to chant on them. We gave Debra a cookbook.
We agreed to meet again at our Sunday Feast in historic Washington State Park.
Driving back through beautiful countryside, we saw cows grazing in the fields or wandering on the road and a pond of lotus flowers. I said to my husband that we were in Vrndavan, because the glories of Krishna and Lord Caitanya are being chanted and Srila Prabhupada’s books are being studied, in Arkansas of all places!
Rangavati-devi Dasi
