Sankirtana Stories from Finland
Dear devotees.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Here are a couple of drops from the fathomless nectar ocean of sankirtana.
Last Nrsimha marathon our sankirtana-group was travelling in the Eastern parts of Finland. Since we wanted to have full concentration on the marathon we did not go to the temple for the weekend. On Monday I had to deposit the previous week's collections in bank.
We ended up in a small town, Kotka, where the distribution had been quite difficult in teh past. I was praying to Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai to somehow help and take me as Their instrument. Still it was so hard. I decided to visit the bank and deliver the laksmi from the previous week.
I was speaking to the attendant, who was a lady in her fifties. Although usually there are no problems in making the deposit, this time it became difficult. She phoned upstairs, and another attendant came from there and she was also not aware about what to do. Then she went back upstairs, leaving me with the first attendant.
"It seems it will take some time."
I was a bit anxious about it all, after all it was the marathon time and we were supposed to not waste any time. Somehow I thought it must be the Lord's arrangement that everything is so mixed up. So I took out the books, asking the lady, "By the way, did you already get one of these?" Showing her a copy of Teachings of Queen Kunti.
"Did I get one of those?" She asked, surprised, "No, but let me see."
I handed her the book, and she was looking at it interested. "This is a book about the teachings of India's greatest philosopher woman." Then I explained to her who I was and what we were doing in that town that day. She seemed interested. Then the phone rang.
"It will take some time more", she said.
I thought "no problem with that", and went on giving a small presentation about simple life and high thinking, which are very important for everyone living in this age of stress and anxiety.
She was listening intently and said her son was just over twenty and had returned from India some time ago. Hearing this I took out the Bhagavad-gita and said, "this is just the right book for your son. This is the spiritual science of the ancient India."
The conversation went on for a while and it ended up in the lady taking both the books for a nice donation. Also the difficulty about depositing the laksmi was then solved.
Sankirtana is such a blessing. It forces us to see Krsna everywhere.
Hoping to become your insignificant servant,
Avadhutacandra Das
