The Book Under My Pillow
By Mangala Arati Devi Dasi After more than a decade, a mysterious attachment to a certain book yields the sweetest fruit. Srila Prabhupada said that if someone just holds one of his books about Krishna and appreciates it, without even buying it, that is enough to ensure that person a human form or higher in the next life. The power of Srila Prabhupada’s books has touched and changed forever many thousands of lives, including my own....
We’re still “a new organization” with spiritual knowledge
Last week, we were supposed to be on our way to North Carolina to meet some devotees, but our car was giving us problems. While we were trying to fix it in our parking lot, a car pulled in, to turn around. The driver looked at us, and I waved at him. He drove up to us and asked whether we’re a new organization, and I responded, “Yeah, man, we bought this church just ten months ago.” “Do you like knowledge?” I asked...
July 2022 World Sankirtan Newsletter
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! July’s book distribution will surprise many of us. South America was fired up. Among the Large Temples, Lima (Peru) had the highest increase: 2,002 book points, a 530% increase. The Medium temple, Curitiba (Brazil) had the highest increase, 561%, with 1,895 book points. Among the Small Temples, Wellington (New Zealand) increased the most: 5,907 book points, a 999%...
Learning from the marathon how amazing things can happen
My sankirtana partner and I were busy distributing books outside of New World, a local supermarket in Foxtrot, New Zealand. By Krishna’s grace my partner had managed to convince the store manager to let us have a table outside of his shop for the day. We loaded our table with stacks of books nicely tied with ribbons. This marathon we focused on two main stacks – the Tridandi set of 3 books and the Bhakti Bomber set of 7....




