Why so expensive? Oh! OK, I surrender
It was a hot, quiet evening outside Patel Brothers in Atlanta. We were sitting there praying for some mercy. Out of nowhere a really pious lady approaches our book table with her family.
She points to Srimad Bhagavatam (First Canto) and the Krishna book and asks me, “How much?”
I said, “For the Krishna book you can give a donation, but the Bhagavatam is $200.”
She was surprised and asked, “Why does it cost so much?”
I told her, “Because it’s an eighteen-volume set.”
She insisted that she just wanted the one book that’s on display. I explained to her that the Bhagavatam is nondifferent from Krishna, so I cannot break the Bhagavatam set. And, I said, whoever keeps a full set of Bhagavatam in the home even the demigods worship that home.
She goes, “OK, I surrender. Put all the books in my car.”
Photo of the family attached for the pleasure of the Vaishnavas.
Your Servant,
Shastrakrt Dasa
