Anakadundubhi das, Italy: I met a man who was looking for a faith was very
attracted to BTG. This man bought books from me. One day another sankirtan
devotee came to his house--of course, he had never seen that devotee
before. He had only just met me. When the devotee came to this man, he
received the devotee as a Vaisnava. He was very respectful.

Then he explained his story. He was agnostic before, an atheist, but in
some way he was forced by friend of his to visit the place of a Christian
saint. At that time, the saint was still alive. So they went down in a
small town down south. He didn't have any faith but seeing all the people
praying in the church he wondered why he didn't have this faith.

Suddenly the saint came in front of them. He was very strong with a very
heavy build, although he didn't eat barely anything. And the saint went
directly to this man without saying anything and embraced him very
strongly. The man was bewildered and a little scared, too. But this saint
told him in a very deep voice, "So, did you find your faith or not?"
Practically he was reading his heart. Then this man experienced symptoms of
ecstasy. He was crying and laughing simultaneously, the hair of his whole
body stood on end, and he was sweating and feeling very hot inside He was
very bewildered; he didn't know what was going on. 

After this incident, the man discovered that he had Srimad-Bhagavatam in his 
house. He read BTG also and was especially touched by articles published 
by Matsyavatara Prabhu, who would later become his spiritual master.