It was the early ‘Eighties’ and I was shoppin with a friend, we usually shopped every Saturday after the end of the working week then had a meal in the evening.
So here we where in the middle of Liverpool City Centre when a yound man in orange robes approached us he gave us a leaflet and invited us to a festival they where holding in the local theatre. I was not too keen on going to this featival that evening, but my friend was! So after much deliberation I was won over by my friend who said “If its really not our thing then we will just leave, its that simple.”
It was the early ‘Eighties’ and I was shoppin with a friend, we usually shopped every Saturday after the end of the working week then had a meal in the evening.
So here we where in the middle of Liverpool City Centre when a yound man in orange robes approached us he gave us a leaflet and invited us to a festival they where holding in the local theatre. I was not too keen on going to this featival that evening, but my friend was! So after much deliberation I was won over by my friend who said “If its really not our thing then we will just leave, its that simple.”
We went that evening, I was so scared and nervous, I did not know what to expect! But I was to be pleasantly surprised indeed.
I/we had a fantastic evening of bhajan/kirtan and play and a brilliant lecture by H.H. Sivarama Swami, and at the end of the evening all the devotees were on the stage dancing and singing, and no one sat down!!! We were all up dancing and singing ecstatically!!! I purchased one book called, Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers a dialogue between Bob Cohen a peace corps worker and H. D. G. Srila Prabhupada, I read the book from cover to cover in ‘one night!’ That was it I wanted to find these devotees and meet this Prabhupada. I could not stop telling everyone about these wonderful people and their philosophy which was the key to allieviating all their sufferings. Friend thought I was nuts, but I did not care. I joined the local temple attending regularly. I met my future husband there and we served happily for many years. I did the Bhaktin course ‘twice’ because I simple loved it!
And the rest is history so to speak.