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In one small city in Spain I walked over to a man sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car and handed him a copy of The Science of Self-Realization. As he looked at the beautiful photograph of Srila Prabhupada on the cover, I spoke to him about the book and about the chanting of Hare Krsna.
On the seat beside him I noticed a large knife, some whisky bottles, and what appeared to be a package of illegal drugs. The man accepted the book gave a donation and I left. A half an hour later he returned and asked to speak with me urgently. “It’s a life or death situation,” he said.
I sat in the car with him, and he told his story. “At the moment you first saw me,” he said, “I was going to kill someone who owed me money and was refusing to pay me.” He showed me the knife. “I was going to get intoxicated so I could get up the courage to kill him. But I don’t know what happened. I saw the monk on the cover of this book and chanted the Hare Krsna song you taught me, and suddenly someone is telling me from inside, ‘Forget about the money. Don’t kill him.’” He was clearly moved.
“I just came to thank you, because you saved me from doing a very sinful act.” I told him to thank Lord Krsna, who was telling him from within to forget the money and the murder.
We became good friends, and I invited him to visit the temple and to go deep into the philosophy of Krsna consciousness.