Nice End for a Heavy Day
May31

Nice End for a Heavy Day

Please accept our humble obeisances, Jaya Srila Prabhupada! On our Sri Narasimha marathon we were traveling in central and eastern Finland, in areas called Savo and Karjala. Different flavors of tamo-guna, mixed with a pinch of rajo-guna. Savo especially has a reputation for being a heavy place for distribution. One day we were in Kuopio, the main city of Savo. The fact that I needed to drive our car back and forth to the repair shop...

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A Gift
May27

A Gift

This happened in Aurangabad, India . . . . Rasayatra Prabhu, one of our enthusiastic brahmacaris, loves to go out practically every day to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. It's now the hottest part of the year, and he distributes at railway stations and on trains, as these are the most crowded places because of summer vacation. One day he made announcements on a train and was showing books to everyone. He was doing quite...

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Sankirtan Stories form Santa Monica College CA USA
May25

Sankirtan Stories form Santa Monica College CA USA

Hare Krsna, I had an unusual day on book distribution recently. I have had plenty of dull days but this was different. I feel very grateful to Krsna. I could only stay for three hours but so much happened during that time… First a girl who started out by photographing all of the pictures in the books as I showed them to her. She loved the pictures. Then she came back later and said she wanted to read the books so she bought...

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Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Mercy
May21

Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Mercy

Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! This recent Nrsimha Caturdasi was a very auspicious time for book distribution. I had to be back at the Los Angeles temple by one o'clock for the festival, so that morning I was begging Lord Nrsimhadeva to engage me. During japa I was begging that since I could only go out for three hours that uses me to distribute twice as many books. As soon...

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Monthly Sankirtana Festivals Turn Little into Lots
May10

Monthly Sankirtana Festivals Turn Little into Lots

By Madhava Smullen In Silicon Valley’s Hare Krishna community, a new book distribution effort is turning into a juggernaut that could be the future of ISKCON’s outreach. When the predominantly householder community decided in 2004 to find a new way to fit book distribution into their nine-to-five lives, they created a “Monthly Sankirtana Festival.” Their motto? “Many people doing a little bit.” The...

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Sastra dana Radhadesh
May03

Sastra dana Radhadesh

Hare Krsna, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We would like to let devotees know about how successful is the Sastra dana program here in Radhedesh, Belgium. Mother Rupa Manjari and her son-in-law Mahaprabhu prabhu are taking care of it and in only two months they got very nice results. There are many visitors coming almost every day here and four displays have been installed in the Reception, in the...

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