It was Christmas 1985. I and a friend were collecting donations for the Krishna Temple in San Francisco at the Sun Valley Mall, Concord, CA.  Very busy. Very crowded since it was just a few days before Christmas.

Usually when we tried to solicit in a place like this the security would find us after a while and ask us to leave. We would not leave right away and then they would ask us again to leave. But we would still stay until finally, the security would tell us to leave or else they would have us arrested. Then we would leave.

But this time it didn't happen like that. The security guards came and told us right away, first time, to leave immediately or we would be arrested. They were so determined to force out of the mall they walked us to our vehicle and made sure we drove off the parking lot. I remember looking back at them standing there. Two rather tall men one on each side of a woman who was much shorter than the men.  All three in uniforms.

They looked very similar to Deities in the Temple. In the Hare Krishna Temple, the Deities of Krishna in the form of Jagannatha are Krishna on one side, His brother Balaram on the other and their sister Subadhra in the middle. These forms are slightly different from the form of Krishna in Vrndavana village playing the flute. The forms of Jagannatha are military. They are Krishna as a King and leader of the army. 

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It really turned my head around on my shoulders to look back and see the three guards in the same pose and position as the Jagannatha Deities on the altar in the temple. My companion kept arguing that we should go back, but I was sure it was very important that we not return having felt that Krishna Himself had appeared in the security guards and forced us out.

The next morning we saw in the local newspaper that a small private plane crashed through the roof of the mall setting everything on fire and injuring hundreds of people with burning dripping plastic decorations fifteen minutes after we were forced to leave.  

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<center>Seven people died as a result of the crash.</center>

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/SunValley_Mall_Crash.htm

I have a lot of stories like this. How many times I was spared serious injury and even death in a very dramatic way.