SURPRISE MERCY
It was early in the day, not long after I’d begun my efforts on Auckland’s Queen Street. The street was buzzing with the usual morning energy when I spotted a man with long hair, dressed in pink pants and a matching scarf. He had a carefree, almost ethereal aura—a modern-day hippie, I thought. Unsure of his background, I approached him anyway. We struck up a conversation, and he introduced himself as Manu....
A pleasant surprise
Badarayana Das: “Once, a nice woman and her friend walked up to me at Rockefeller Center in New York with deliberate intention. I had been doing sankirtana there for many years, after legalizing it with much ordeal. She said to me, ‘If you could be anything or anyone in your next lifetime who or what would you be?’ I was struck by the depth of the question and I answered in kind. I then inquired, ‘Why do you ask?’ She replied,...
Working while doing their real work
I just heard an amazing story from the book distributors of ISKCON of Silicon Valley. A few devotees there work remotely; they don’t have to go to the office. So, what do they do? This is going to shock you. They are so fired up that they bring their work laptop with them on book distribution, and set it up on the side of their book table. They’ll log in, do a little work on the computer, and then when they see someone...
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