Jun 052014
“I had the idea that you didn’t choose your guru but that he was already there and he just had to manifest himself to you. And I even had a vague mental impression of what he looked like—and he didn’t have hair. All the other swamis I had met had long hair. I had gone to see so many swamis and masters, every time with high hopes, but in the end I had always been disappointed. Finally I started feeling despondent: ‘How will I ever find my perfect master?’ Then one day I saw a poster on campus: ‘Bhagavad-gita As It Is — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.’ I looked at it, but I was so discouraged I couldn’t believe that he could be my perfect master. . .”