Last Friday, our traveling sankirtan party visited North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, and the devotees felt very well received.
In the beginning of the day, I met a person who told me that the next day there would be an event called Yogafest at a conference center on campus
I looked up the event online and called the organizer. I told him that I am a Vedic monk who travel all over the United States distributing the original yoga texts like Bhagavad Gita, Puranas and Upanisads. He had heard of Bhagavad Gita and was interested in our mission.
For no charge, he offered to let us set up a table at his event, which was advertised on the website for $340! We called at just the last moment; he said that right before we called, he was about to close the registration.
We felt well received at the conference and had a nice table with many types of books, instruments, japa beads, information about the local center and a clipboard for contacts, and we were fully engaged all day talking to people. In the middle of the day, Howie, the event manager, asked me to lead a kirtan for everyone as they went into lunch. We distributed about 80 books, mostly soft Gitas, and the people we met were quite generous with their donations.
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