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the one that received me in the temple became a ritvik now and is encouraging me to follow his footsteps.
:(

mine NEVER joined a temple, but actively preached to friends etc. He died a few years ago.

Still all my appreciation and credit for coming with a Srila Prabhupadas tape "Vande ham": it pierced my heart.

George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

Then in person, a devotee on a street in Los Angeles

i guess mine was the one who made the sign for the festival of india/rathaa yatra held in boston in 1985.
so hence forward i am a sign maker. :-)

seriously i saw the sign first [and i now [unfortunately] function as a signmaker] then the first devotee i ever talked with left before i got his name. but the one who took his place at the particular booth continued talking with me and gave me a card which had the mahamantra on it as well as his name. i cant recall it right now but im quite sure i have it somewhere.

anyway, later one of the first discples of srila prabhupada [jai!] got my address from the boston devotees and contacted me.
rupanuga prabhu.
apparently he is in some sort of recluse now? not sure.

It was a boring afternoon. I was at home with my friend and he asked some good book from me. He take one from our shelf (somehow it was just book from SP).....and after some days he gives me back, that it is amazing book that I should read it also. I started to read and after 2 months I went to live to temple. He chanted some rounds some time then stopped.... never came to visit me :)

My mom. She was inspired by (her now guru-maharaja) Lokanatha Swami.

my brother :)

An ex Chicago temple president.

actually a sankirtan devotee gave me a book but I could never find who he was. he dissapeared shortly afterwards.

I found four books of Srila Prabhupada, misplaced in a dusty cupboard on the attic of my parents. I read them and joined instantaneously. My mother very much regretted she had left the books there. I didnt :)

But actually, two years before that, I met a brahmacari in the streets of Antwerp. I gave him a donation and he gave me a book. I went to the city park and read one page of it. I didnt like it and left it on the bench for someone else to find it. Thats how it all started I think...giving a donation, touching the book, reading one page...

My 10 year old niece who insisted that I HAVE to meet this wonderful prabhu and mataji who are absolutely cool and fun people. (She used to go for a childrens bhagavad gita class to them)

Srila Prabhupada. I bought Gita As It Is paperback with a broken spine in a second hand shop in 1981

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>>he dissapeared shortly afterwards. <<<

Crreepy, abhiram pr.
hehe

yes, nobody saw him again. I think he just visited the city for a few days and dissapeared but never visited the temple.
Maybe he was a demigod that came to inspire me directly. Yes, I like to believe that. :)

From time to time in sankirtan I meet some special people that come usually when I am in low spirits.

They come, eagerly buy a book and encourage me (in a strange way for "karmis") and then they go as fast as they came.

I heard some weird stories too. People who come very nicely dressed, wealthy, kind of like floating, not blinking. One told a devotee: you dont understand how important it is what you do. Keep doing it. And he gave him a big donation.

recently a man came and bought all the cds I had. He came and said how much for all the cds?
I was startled. That day I wasnt having much energy and I guess was an arrangement for me taking some needed rest.

But isnt that food for another thread? :)

come here: http://www.pariprashnena.com/discussion/100/do-you-have-a-really-far-out-sankirtan-story/#Item_3