Krishna’s reciprocation.
Shastrakrit Das: I was flooded with things to do at the temple yesterday ( Sunday ) I forced myself to go out to distribute books at least for a couple of hours.
I set up book table out this Indian grocery. An hour and a half went by and only one book was distributed. I was praying like anything for some results since I had to go back to temple for Sunday feast in the next half hour.
All of a sudden an older Indian gentleman and his daughter came to my book table and took little Maha Prasad. They casually asked if I have any Srimad Bhagavatam in Gujarati? I couldn’t believe my ears.
When I showed him the Prabhupada’s Bhagavatam set he was like “oh I don’t want these thick books, I only want the Sanskrit slokas & Gujarati translations. All in just one book, one small book. I don’t want any purports.”
I explained to him “just like a mother eats rice, dhal, chapati etc which an infant can’t digest. The food gets transformed into mothers breast milk & the mother feeds that to the infant , the infant can easily digest that. Similarly, Acarya’s headed by Srila Prabhupada have digested this deep message of the Bhagavata Purana & have written purports (commentaries) in such a way we can understand easily .”
This pious man Kirit heard me out for a while & agreed to buy the Bhavatam set right then he also gave me a donation/tip for doing good work.
Anytime I go out on books against all odds Krishna reciprocates even more :)
By the way, they own an ice cream shop 🍦😁