Really nice gentleman named Andy. He fled communist Poland in the 1980’s and immigrated to America. He’s currently an iron worker in Long Island just to earn a living so he can travel all over the world. He learned Hebrew in Israel and Arabic in Egypt just so he could study sacred texts in their original language. He’s been an underground activist for the environment and he’s also a Sanskrit scholar. He told us that he learnt Sanskrit mainly from reading and studying Srila Prabhupada’s books. He recited the invocation from the “Sri Isopanishad” by heart in perfect meter with the English translation modified so it rhymes like a poem!
He was friends with a popular devotee named Kapindra from the lower east side of Manhattan who had a preaching center on St Marks place back in the 1980’s.
He was so happy to see “the new generation of devotees” as he put it and said it was a blessing to run into us. He was crying when he got the set!
