A counselor receives the real cure for social ills

[Vijaya Baladeva das]

While distributing books at Purdue University (in West Lafayette,
Indiana), I met a student who told me his mother was very interested
in
Vedic ideas and that she was a counselor in Purdue's Office of the
Dean
of Students. He suggested I go to her office and present her a copy of
Bhagavad-gita As It Is. So I did just that.

When I handed her the book, she said, "Oh, the Bhagavad-gita!" We
talked
for a couple of minutes; she wanted to know who I was and what I was
doing on campus. She then asked if she could give me a donation for
the
book. I shrugged and said I wanted to give it to her as a gift. She
insisted on giving a donation, however, and reached into her purse and
handed me a hundred dollar bill. "This is for your organization, " she
said. "Keep up the good work."

She then showed me the magazine article she had been reading just
before
I arrived: "The Transformative Nature of Om." She marveled at how I
happened to come along with the Bhagavad-gita at that time. As a
counselor she helped students with all kinds of problems -- from
questions about their academic paths to suicidal thoughts -- and she
said she hoped to incorporate Vedic ideas into her work and facilitate
east-west dialogue on the Purdue campus.

I left thinking that this "time bomb" had been placed in good hands.

Danakeli Dasi