A young lady from Colombia was walking on the Mall in DC last week. On the same day the young man who manages the Krishna House at near the University of Maryland decided to go there and sell some Bhagavad-gitas.
He met various people and sold some books. He also met this young lady from Colombia and she bought a book. After about ten minutes he saw her coming back towards him. She stopped to ask him two questions.
“Why are you out here doing this on this cold day?” she queried.
He told her he was part of an organization that wanted to do something to help people in the world, to help make lasting change. There is a lot of suffering going on, a lot of confusion. He explained that by giving people information, a book that discusses big picture questions like love, time, death, the soul, God, they could take it home, read it and reflect, and thus be empowered in their own way, as they needed to be.
“This book changed my life,” he said. “It brought color when all was black and white and empty. It worked for me, and maybe it can work for others too.”
She then asked him, “Why me?”
He looked at her and smiled. “Krishna, as super-soul, is in everyone’s heart. It’s like intuition. I was praying to Krishna, please send someone who wants to know something more, who feels there is more to life than eating and sleeping.”
They talked for a little while on the role of karma, intuition, destiny, and serendipity in life. How life can be mysterious but if we honestly and sincerely seek goodness and truth we can be sure we will meet up with others seeking the same thing. We will meet someone trying to give goodness and truth away. And if we have a moment to stop, it might make all the difference.
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