Forum

A YOUNG DEVOTEE HERE IN WEST AFRICA ALWAYS GOES OUT ON SUNDAY AFTER PROGRAM WITH HIS FELLOW DEVOTEES INTO THE NEIGHBORING COMMUNITY TO PREACH. SO IT HAPPENED THAT ON THIS SUNDAY NO ONE WAS READY TO GO OUT WITH HIM DUE TO THE RAIN FALLING PROFUSELY HE BEGGED ONE OF THE SENIOR DEVOTEE TO PLS HELP TALK TO HIS FELLOW BHAKTAS NOT TO RELENT GOING OUT FOR SANKIRTAN BECAUSE OF THE RAIN BUT THE PRABHU ONLYIGNORED HIM AND WALK AWAY THE YOUNG DEVOTEE BEING DETERMINED TO PREACH THAT SUNDAY ENTERED THE RAIN AND START SETTING OUT FOR PREACHING. WHEN HIS FRIENDS SAW HIM THEY LAUF AT HIM AND MADE JEST OF HIM TO THE ESTENT HE BECAME ASHAMED OF HIM SELF WANTING TO QUIT AND RETURN BACK TO THE ASHRAM HE COULD NOT MOVE HIS LEGS THEN AS IF PROCESSED BY A SPIRIT HE STARTED PREACHING AND DISTRIBUTING BOOKS UNTIL THE LAST ONE IN HIS HAND THEN HE SIGHTED A HOUSE WHICH HE RAN TO TO DRY UP HIS WET CLOTHS AND TO WAIT FOR THE RAIN TO FULLY SUBSIDE SO AS TO HEAD BACK TO THE TEMPLE REACHING THE HOUSE HE KNOCKED AT THE DOOR FIRST SECOND THIRD BUT NO ONE ANSWERED HE KNOCKED AGAIN STILL NO ONE ANSWERED GIVING UP HOPE AND WANTING TO GO BACK FOR THE RAIN AS FULLY SUBSIDED HE DECIDED TO KNOCK AT THE DOOR AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME HARDER THAN BEFORE AFTER KNOCKING A WOMAN CAME OUT TO HIS SURPRISE AND ANSWERED YES PLS CAN I HELP YOU. WITH A SMILE ON HIS LITTLE FACE HE SAID I JUST WANNA TELL YOU THAT THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD LOVES YOU THEN HE HANDED OVER TO HER THE LAST COPY OF BOOK IN HIS HANDS TO HER TITLED THE MATHCHLESS GIFT,IMMEDIATELY HE RAN BACK TO THE TEMPLE.WEEKS LATER A STRANGE WOMAN CAME TO SEE THE TEMPLE PRESIDENT AND ASKED IF SHE CAN SEE THE YOUNG ENVANGELIST THAT GAVE HER A BOOK SOME WEEKS AGO THEY CALLED IN THE YOUNG DEVOTEE WHEN THE WOMAN SIGHTED HIM SHE BEGAN TO CRY SAYING THAT DAY YOU CAME TO MY HOUSE I WAS ABOUT TO END MY LIFE I HAVE ALREADY PREPARED THE ROPE FOR HANGING MY SELF WHEN I HEARD YOUR FIRST KNOCK I REFUSED TO ANSWER BECAUSE I THOUGHT WHEN THE PERSON IS TIRED OF KNOCKING HE WILL SURELY FIND HIS WAY.I WAS ABOUT TO PUT THE ROPE ON MY NECK WHEN I HEARD YOUR SECOND KNOCK THIS TIME I DESIDED TO WAIT FOR THE PERSON TO GO BEFORE I CONTINUE MY ATTEMPT I WAITED AND THERE WAS NO KNOCK FINALLY WHEN I CONCLUDED THAT THE PERSON HAS GONE AND WAS ABOUT TO PUT THE ROPE ON MY NECK AGAIN YOU KNOCKED HARDER THAN BEFORE SO I CAME OUT TO SEE WHO IT WAS TO MY SURPRISE IT WAS JUST A YOUNG BOY SMILING AT ME IN A VERY COLD ATMOSPHERE TELLING ME THAT THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD LOVES ME AND WITH A SHAKING HAND HE GAVE A BOOK.SEE I HAVE LOST EVERY BODY THAT ARE IMPORTANT IN MY LIFE A WEEK BEFORE YOU CAME MY HUSBAND AND FOUR SONS ALL DIED IN A AUTO ACCIDENT MY LIFE BECAME A NIGHTMARE WANTING TO END IT YOU CAME AND GAVE ME A BOOK MATCHLESS GIFT I NEVER WANTED TO READ IT BUT YOUR SMILE AND WORDS STROKE MY HEART SO I DESIDED TO GO THROUGH THE BOOK BEFORE I END MY LIFE I WAS CUT BY A WORD IN THE BOOK WISH SAY THE LIVING ENTITY IN THIS CONDITIONED WORLD ARE MY FRAGMENTAL PARTS AND THEY ARE ETERNAL BUT DUE TO CONDITIONED LIFE THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE SIX SENSES WHICH INCLUDES THE MIND. HEARING THIS WORDS FROM THE WOMAN EVRYONE IN THE TEMPLE SHEARED TEARS FOR THE SALVATION OF THE WOMAN THROUGH THE YOUNG DEVOTEE. NOW PLS ASK YOURSELF HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU SAVED WHAT HAVE I SACRIFICED JUST TO PREACH KRISHNA KARTHA AND GIVE PRABHUPADS BOOKS JUST TO SAVE A SOUL WHAT SACRIFICE HAVE I OR AM I TAKING JUST TO SEE THIS MOVEMENT GROW. HARE KRISHNA