Spirituality for the Truth Seeker

So here I was, pretty much a non-spiritual “do-gooder”. After hearing about vegetarianism, I quickly decided that I would definitely like to go that route. I also started to feel repulsed by the idea of eating dead animals. Later, in the Hare Krsna temple, I started to feel more enthusiastic about bhakti yoga. This concept teaches that everything we do can be done as an offering to Krsna, since we are, in fact, servants of Krsna. So, cooking and honoring prasadam (which is the remnants of the offerings) can be envisioned as an actual devotional practice. At that time, I thought this was a great idea, and I still do.

The truth of the matter is, most people do not start searching for the truth until something very drastic happens. That’s what happened in my case. One just breezes through life thinking that everything is going to be hunky dory. Or vs.vs., one may think that one will never get any chance whatsoever. Now, in my case, someone gave me a copy of Easy Journey to Another Planet, which I thought was just another science fiction. Little did I know that therein contained the seed for my future spiritual journey that has lasted now 25 years and taken me to Asia, India, and Europe. Somehow that little seed became nourished by my visiting the Hare Krsna temple for their Sunday Festivals. I have to admit that their sumptuous vegetarian cuisine was the initial real reason for my adventures there. I mean, I was a bit of a hippie anyway, but, on the other hand, I was also a dentist as well. So, I had a serious side to me as well, an intellectual side, so to speak.