Krishna the Reservoir of Pleasure

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On 08 Feb 2000, Rasananda das wrote:

 

> Dear Devotees,

>

> Pranams. Srila Prabhupada jayatah.

>

> The booklet "Kåñëa, the Reservoir of Pleasure" was printed in 1969 with

> maybe more than one printing that year but to my knowledge, was never again

> reprinted in subsequent years (i.e., I never saw it again). I enjoyed

> distributing it because it was small and saleable and because of the picture

> -- Krishna in his three-fold bended form, with a pastoral background -- on

> the cover. For a long time I was worried -- before Bhaktivedanta Archives

> was created, or, before I knew about it -- that no copy had been preserved.

> Today, to my partial relief, I saw that it is Folio, so it seems to me

> likely that the cover picture is also at Archives. I was wondering if

> someone at Archives can confirm that the cover picture -- in some format or

> other does -- indeed exist and, for my personal pleasure if it is possible

> to get a copy -- whether in printed or electronic form?

 

Wow--Rasanada prabhu's request takes me way back. Are you talking about the

really pretty color painting, perhaps water color? (Wasn't there also a

black-and-white cover?) I remember distributing this booklet at the Fort

Street Mall in downtown Honolulu in 1970. One day a group of young

part-Hawaiian guys walked up to me. They had these rather tough looks on their

faces. One looked at the cover of "Krishna, the Reservoir of Pleasure" and

asked, "That's God?" I thought, "Oh boy, here it comes!"

 

I took a breath, smiled, looked the guy in the eye and said, "Yeah! As I

steeled myself internally for whatever scorn or violence might follow, his

face lit up with a smile as he said, "Nice, eh?"

 

I just smiled and said, "Yeah, He's nice!" When he asked about the booklet, I

handed it to him and said, "This one's yours."

 

Krishna is akhilarasamrita-murti, and He is indeed all-attractive.

 

Babhru das