Something Worth Hearing by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa
HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving them books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. I start with an experience of my own.
While distributing books recently I met a young man very interested in Krsna consciousness. As we were speaking, he put in hearing aids to understand me.
He told me that when he was a child his parents quarreled so much he wanted to lose his hearing, and after a few months he lost ninety percent of it. The doctors had no idea how it happened and said there was no cure.
Then he met devotees and started to chant the maha-mantra. Now he has something valuable to hear, and with the help of his hearing aids he has about sixty percent of his hearing. He is reading Srila Prabhupada's books and chanting Hare Krsna, and he comes to the temple every other day to do devotional service.
The following stories are from other Hare Krsna book distributors around the world.
Bhagavatam for a P.M.
One Sunday morning I felt I wanted to do something valuable for guru and Krsna, so I took a few books with me and went out to distribute in the old section of Stockholm. Because it was Sunday and only ten o'clock in the morning, finding people was difficult.
Then I spotted Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden, out on his morning walk. I offered him a book, saying that it was about the most essential questions of life and would be useful for his career.
"I'm not so philosophical," he replied. "Besides, I don't even have any money with me."
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