Book Distribution on India’s Trains
Feb16

Book Distribution on India’s Trains

“If one can please a pure devotee of the Lord, such action means immediate satisfaction of the Lord, even though such a person is not officially qualified to receive the mercy of the Lord.” (Srila Prabhupada's letter to Yeager, Dec. 20, 1970) By our book distribution, the super-pure devotee Srila Prabhupada is pleased, and the Lord's mercy touches us even if we are not officially qualified to receive it. There are...

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Abhay Chaitanya Dasa, a congregation member of ISKCON Chowpatty recollects
Feb14

Abhay Chaitanya Dasa, a congregation member of ISKCON Chowpatty recollects

We put up a Stall on the main road near Chembur Station. In front of us, we saw a man crossing the road suddenly get hit by a car. The car sped away. I went over and helped that man to get up. Luckily for him the hit wasn't too bad. But he was in a state of shock. So I took him to the place where we had put up our book stall and offered him our chair to sit on. I gave him some water to drink. He took some time to come out of...

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Ukraine Sankirtana Wins the War
Feb06

Ukraine Sankirtana Wins the War

This year the Prabhupada December Marathon in Ukraine was quite unusual with people really damaged by the news of the war on the eastern side of the country. There were various series of drafts of many thousands to the army, there was mourning for war victims and acts of terrorism. It was doubly unusual, because due to the war the whole country suffered from heavy depression with the local currency rate...

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Easy, if we remember Lord Caitanya
Jan13

Easy, if we remember Lord Caitanya

Recently, I read an article on book distribution and came across an amazing verse. It mentions how even difficult things become easy if we remember Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I was deeply touched by the verse (Cc. Adi 14.1). So on the following Sunday I went out for book distribution to the homes of Baroda (Gujarat, India). For one and a half hours there was no positive response, and I was...

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Arabian night book distribution
Jan09

Arabian night book distribution

As part of the marathon season, devotees went *door2door* for a couple of weeks to distribute books. Today was a special and historic day for the Toronto Sankirtan Warriors. We visited an apartment at Kipling & Finch last week, where there were many Arabic-speaking members of a household who did not understand English. Unfortunately, we did not carry any Arabic books. So this week we packed Arabic books,...

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