Sinai Gets Her First Two Books From Sastra Dana

Sinai is a new devotee from San Diego.

Sinai: My boyfriend and I went to buy groceries at People’s in Ocean Beach and he picked up a book from the Sastra Dana book rack there. He said I should read that book. I guess he had read a book before so he told me I should read this one and that it is very interesting. So my first book was The Higher Taste. I read it and thought it to be pretty cool. I let one of my friends borrow it. After he read it he said that he now understood why I became a vegetarian.

I needed some kind of support as at that time my family was against me being vegetarian. They were telling me that I needed to eat meat. I told them that I didn’t and told them to read this book. I also let my sister borrow The Higher Taste and she became vegetarian.

I kept going to People’s and eventually picked up another book from the same rack. It was a different book. I don’t remember the name of it. It was pretty much talking about reincarnation…

Sastra Dana: …Beyond Birth and Death?

Sinai: …yes, Beyond Birth and Death. Yes. So I read that one too and thought it to be some pretty crazy stuff. I kept reading the books.

One day I went to Fashion Valley. There I met Balarama. He gave me a copy of The Journey of Self Discovery. I always keep it with me, just to remember how I got started with Krishna consciousness. Balarama was excepting donations for the book and I gave him five bucks. Later on I found out its cost was nine dollars so I put a few more dollars in the donation box as I felt kind of bad. Balarama invited me to come to the Krishna Lounge and I liked it. I thought it was a pretty cool environment. He then gave me another little flyer to come over to the temple. I came and I really liked it. Then I just kind of got hooked on it and ever since I’ve been coming to the classes and keep reading the Bhagavad-gita. I also try to help around the temple a little bit, whatever I can do to try to help.