Waka Flocka, a heavy rapper, reaches out for books
Recently, while distributing books at the Ockechobee music festival in Florida, something fascinating happened. Around 5:30 pm, I had already finished distributing. All of a sudden a thought came to mind: “Try to distribute Prabhupada's books to Waka.” Last year, while I was distributing books on the Warped tour, I was handed a pamphlet promoting vegetarianism. I looked through it. There were quotes by famous people,...
Two in Toronto, Tony and Marcia, get books
Tony, a former student of electrical engineering, is now studying acting. He responded to my question, "Hey, do you like to read?" with a hearty "Yes, I love to. What do you have there?" From there, our conversation never looked back on a refusal. Tony continued to ask questions and accept books. He told me he is very logical: "If you can't prove it, I can't believe it." When I spoke of changing...
Water-management professional orders four thousand Gitas
A water-management professional visited the ISKCON Delhi Temple. He mentioned the future water problems coming our way, especially in India and China. Then Gopal Krishna Goswami arrived at the scene, met this water-management professional and sympathized with him regarding the problem. Gopal Krishna Goswami preached to him about the solution in the Bhagavad-gita. The real solution is to perform sacrifice. The water-management...
World Sankirtan Newsletter Feb 2017
Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! What came over the devotees in Punjabi Bhag? I can’t figure out how they did so big: over five times more than the No. 2 temple in the world in February. An inconceivable 104,237 book points! Special mercy was flowing at this medium-size temple in New Delhi. Good news in Vrindavan: Rohininandana Balarama Prabhu distributes books in Srila Prabhupada’s...
Have contact information in the book
While in Sri Lanka, where the Bhagavatam sets are flying out under the sincere management of Vasudeva Datta Prabhu, it came to my attention that a local devotee there became a devotee by receiving a book. He liked the book and was thinking how to find out more, when he found a stamp in the book that told him where the temple is and how to get more books. This is so important! We have to leave contact information in the book for those...
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