Distribution in Mcdonalds
Please accept our humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada
One nice incident took place during the first day of Srila Prabhupada marathon. We were distributing in Tampere, the second biggest city in Finland, with our fellow brahmacaries. It was quite nice mood. Beginning was not easy, after being involved in many other things beside book distribution for last couple of months, but by Prabhupada`s mercy some books had went out. In late afternoon I was distributing in the mainstreet, outside one headquarters of Kali, Mcdonalds restaurant. While distributing I contemplated or speculated couple of things. "Hmm. It seems that these people coming from Mcdonalds are hopeless cases, they hardly never take a book, they are too deep in ignorance and too sinful." Other point was that I noticed how I had distributed(once again) most books to matajies and I was thinging if is questionable for a brahmacari. I tried to stop people and I was partly aware that something was happening behind the window, but first I didn`t put much notice. Then I noticed somebody was knocking to the window and pointing to me and to our books. There was one young mataji waving her hands like anything and trying to speak to me, but I could not hear anything and so I went inside. " Oh what are you selling! What are these books?" "These are about indian philosophy, have you heard about it?" "No, but sounds very interesting!" She is speaking with a loud voice. We discuss some minutes with this rather maha-extrovert and maha-garrulative mataji."I think finnish people are not enough talkative and I try to oppose that…I try to be talkative." "Yes, I can see that…" "Should I take this Bhakti-yoga or this lifestory(CC)?"
"If you like you can take both, they come together very nicely."
I came outside from the domain of Kali and Tapo Divyam prabhu was just coming to get car-key from me. We shortly exchanged something with him , but then I again saw this mataji yelling and making faces behind the window and this time pointing to our temple flyer which she also got besides the two books."
I could not understand and walked in again. "Oh there is this!!" Pointing to printed Maha-mantra. "One guy who was previously in jail told me this mantra. He didn`t know its meaning, but he said it makes your day a success. It is defenetely so! When ever I say this mantra, things just strangely go very nicely… there is really something deep and mysterious in this…"
"Yes, you can be sure about that…"
We discussed a little more, but her flow of words was endless and I politely went outside. After maybe ten minutes she comes out and speaks still one more time.
"Listen, I already learned this hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna rama rama…"
Sorry, in case it goes:hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare." "
"Oh, so you mean: hare krsna hare krsna…"
Afterwards came to my mind once again how it sometimes seems how Gaura-nitai is rather humorously recipricating to our thoughts and how there is no people and no place which is outside their mercy.
Your servant
Muniraja dasa
