Here is Practical Explanation about Next Life, Purpose of Human Life,

[Ninurta]

Once, when I attended Wayne State University in downtown Detroit, a Krishna approached me and we talked. He gave me a nice leather-bound copy of the Bhagavad Gita and invited me to their vegetarian feast at their temple down by the Detroit River. I never went, but I did read their text and thought it was pretty cool.

I never had that experience with a Hare Krishna - I spent most of my interactive time back then with them trying to avoid them, just to prove I Am the "Demon" their mothers warned them about. However, I HAVE had similar interactions with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. I can't tell you how many copies of The Book Of Mormon and The New World Translation of the Bible I've had over the years.

The last Mormons I dealt with, which was last fall, tried to give me another Book of Mormon, and I had to tell them I was already over-stocked on Mormon materials, which was a nice segue into a lively discussion out on my deck! They asked me if I had ever read it since I already had it, and I admitted that I had, so then they wanted to know what I thought of it... which may have been a mistake on their part. I did, however, go into quite enough detail to demonstrate that I actually had read it during the course of presenting an argument against it that they couldn't refute.

We parted amiably, however.

Now the Bhagvad Bita is something I HAVEN'T ever read. I've never had occasion or reason to, and the Hare Krishnas I've run into have not been able to pin me down long enough to transfer one to me. They're not hrd to spot, so a bit of judicious dodging usually does the trick, but on those rare occasions where they were more insistent than I was fast moving, the encounter still didn't last very long, certainly not long enough to transfer a book into my hand.

You say the copy you got was leather-bound? That's strange, considering the Hare Krishna aversion to eating meat, cows in particular. Since they won't eat cows, it surprises me that they would take 'em out just to bind books with!

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