(Reprinted, by permission, from the Sunday Guardian, Trinidad, West Indies)

Surasrestha dasa is a 22-year-old devotee of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness who is now in Trinidad helping to establish a centre here.

Coming from an American Jewish family, Surasrestha-his former name was Arthur Swers-gave up his studies at a university in Vermont to become a disciple of Lord Krsna, whose teachings, he claims, were handed down intact through 6,000 years.