Have you got a story to tell?
All glories to Sri Krsna sankirtan!
I was doing books in Swanston street Melbourne Australia. I stopped a young man rushing by and enthusiastically showed him the book and said what it was about. He said "Na mate gotta go." So I just continued approaching others.
Then one hour later he came running back and said, "Hey mate I took off before, but something is telling me you have a story to tell. Can we catch up?" So I met him at our restaraunt in Crossways. He asked, so I said, "Yes, I have a story to tell, of my life." Actually all devotees have a story tell. Everything is wonderfull when it brings us to Krsna. It turns out he is a media student at RMIT university. He had to interveiw someone for his final assignment. He said it would be shown at short film festivals also. So I thought, "Yes, I will do it for the sake of preaching. Maybe someone will be inspired to take up Krsna consciousness by hearing my story."
He set up a whole film crew in our Urban Yoga studio. He asked questions and I just did my best to link my 'life story' in a nut shell, to Krsna. Which wasn't dificult. I told of how happy I was growing up as a Krsna kid on New Govardhan farm. Then moving off the farm at the age of 10, out of devotee association, and getting into lots of trouble while searching anywhere and everywhere for the same type of happiness one gets from a Krsna life style. Then after Krsna let me play with the material energy for sometime I became frustrated and cried out like a baby…. a wondering babe in the forest, lost and in danger. Then He (Krsna) arranged everything perfectly and one day I just woke up in the temple ashram in Melbourne. I explianed that now I have found the highest pleasure and I will spend the rest of my life giving it to others. I ended with explaining and chanting the Maha mantra with harmonium. The hole film crew loved it. He got good marks for the film and will send me a copy soon. He also said he really wants to learn more about how to meditate and become a more spiritual person.
Devotee are so attractive becuase they are always thinking of Krsna, the all attractive source of pleasure. People can tell we have something most valuable. When we present Krsna Consciousness nicely to them they want to join us.
All is well that ends in Krsna,
Your Aspiring to be reformed Servant,
Uddhava Dasa
