Alex was walking by and did a namaste bowing his head down with folded palms and I was happily surprised. He’s a student at St Francis college in Brooklyn! He mentioned that he has some Indian friends who speak Telugu and I told him that I also speak Telugu! His girlfriend is also Telugu and likes to read lots of spiritual books from the Vedas so I showed him our set then paraphrased a verse from the Srimad Bhagavatam 2.1.4:
“Persons devoid of Δtma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children and wife. Although sufficiently experienced, they still do not see their inevitable destruction.”
More or less explaining to him that he has to be spiritually inquisitive being an educated intelligent person as he is and start developing some material detachment at the same time. He liked what I said and agreed to buy the books for him and his girlfriend and told me that he’s very excited for her to see them.
