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We Indians are sitting on bags of diamonds but crying for broken glas

Hare Krishna,
PAMHO,
AGTSP,AGTSGASG.

Today I heard something very interesting thing from my friend(He is my current team lead). My client is in Basel. In year 2009 three of my seniors went to a library to buy some novel.

They happened to meet a Caribbean woman aged 45 and had two sons. Following was the conversation between the woman and seniors. I have tried to make it as simple as possible. Please forgive me for any mistakes in language.

CW(Caribbean Woman): Are you guys from India? One of the Senior : Yes we are.
CW: India is a country of values. I am deeply interested in Indian Spiritual Culture. One of the Senior: Oh I see... So how can we help you.
CW: I went to India few years back(Probably 15 years back ). In south I came across a temple where people were chanting some mantra "Hare Krish.."(She doesn't remember the mantra ) . At that time I did not learn it properly. When I came back to my country this mantra was going on in my mind but could not remember completely. Then I got busy in my daily activities. But something happened to me last year. I can feel this mantra in background of my mind but cannot remember. I don't know what is happening to me. But, Whenever I think about this mantra my mind gets calm and composed. One of the Senior: So, how can we help you ?
CW: Frankly speaking I asked this question one year back to an Indian boy. He laughed at me and said "Do you believe in such things? I don't have knowledge about such mantra." You tell me whom should I ask other than Indians. So, I am asking you. One of the Senior: What mantra you want from us ?
CW: Can you write that mantra starting with "Hare krish...." ? I think "Krish" is name of Hindu God. One of the Senior: Yes, It is Krishna.
CW: Oh I see. Please write and give me this mantra. One of the Senior: Frankly speaking we don't remember this mantra. Can we give you tomorrow? We will come here tomorrow at same time.
CW: Please don't forget. I will be waiting here . Also, please tell me where I can find these temples? You are Indian and you must be going to some temple nearby. Can you give me it's address? One of the senior: We are also finding such temple?(They said just to hide their shame) . But tomorrow we will give you all details.
CW: Ok Thank you Sir. See you tomorrow. God bless you. The lady went away .

Senior 1: Yaar, from where we can get the details. We are Indians and we need to provide such information. Senior2: I know them. She is talking about ISKCON. We can google and tell her the details.

That day my seniors came to know about the mantra. They wrote "HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE , HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE" on paper and gave it to the lady. Most interesting part was that ,they came to know about ISKCON temple in Zurich. They also shared details of ISKCON temple in Zurich to her .

Although, my seniors are not following ISKCON but see the mercy of Lord that he made them instrument to connect a sincere lady to ISKCON.

This reminds me of Prabhupad's statement "We Indians are sitting on bags of diamonds but crying for broken glasses ".

Srila Prabhupad ki jai...