text: 1969, california, USMC, i was going to Viet Nam in a couple of weeks.  we went to LA to party.  Hollywood.  there was a girl.  i'd never seen such a beautiful and exotic girl, and so was very open to her.  she wore an orange robe, gave me incense and a pamphlet.  i was impressed greatly. i studied the pamphlet and immediately wrote to the man about whom the pamphlet was written.  within a few days i received a reply.  i had written to him about my situation (see above).  his repy was simple, "This will explain everything."  he had enclosed a book he had just published: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.\n\nI will never forget His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.  The book had a bookmark where Arjuna asks Krishna how he can go to war against friends and family, more or less the same questions i had been asking myself.  that book is here on my desk these 37 years later.  my life was changed forever.\n\nNamaste