Plutarch once remarked, " I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better". True, real friendship is much deeper than mere superficial familarity and exchanging of thoughts. A True Friend really cares, and is there for us in the times he is required the most. Based upon an uncanny phase in his own life, Radhanath Swami in the following clipping recounts how his worst rated companion eventually became his best friend as they tried to unite based upon a higher principle.

Radhanath Swami