Book Distribution Stories
Apr03

Book Distribution Stories

By Omkara Devi Dasi ACBSP Recently I started part time book distribution, several days a week. Please find some stories based on my distribution program. These have enlivened me ever so much. I hope to share with you…. Hare Krsna. Your servant, Omkara dasi March 27, 2010 ( 1 ) Recently while I was distributing Perfection of Yoga in a Spanish neighborhood I started a new method whereby I would open up the book and flip through...

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Determined to Give the Mercy
Apr01

Determined to Give the Mercy

In a Pak 'N Save parking lot in Hamilton, New Zealand… Despite the frigid temperatures, wind chill and light rain, Ramadas Prabhu and myself were persistently presenting Srila Prabhupada's books to the exhausted Hamiltonians, some of whom were just getting off work at 9:00 PM. A fortunate few dropped into their local supermarket, Pak 'N Save, on the way home, completely unaware that Srila Prabhupada's unlimited...

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Budapest Hungary
Mar29

Budapest Hungary

The afternoon went well. People were friendly, curious, and giving donations for books. I had an hour left at the shopping mall and prayed to Krsna to distribute a complete Krsna book (in Hungarian). The next man I met proved to be the desired customer. In fact, he was a regular customer of mine, who first bought "The Path of Perfection" four years ago, even though he had been a reader of mayavada and impersonalist books for...

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Who Is This Young Man?
Mar27

Who Is This Young Man?

While I was visiting Nepal recently I found out about this incident: A few years ago, while distributing books in Kathmandu, Nepal, a devotee approached a young man in his mid teens named Suvarna and tried to convince him to take a book. Suvarna wasn't interested. But the book distributor was new at it and became forceful, demanding that Suvarna take a book. "This book saved me, and it can save you, too! Now please take it...

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Books on the home front, another venue for Book Distribution
Mar17

Books on the home front, another venue for Book Distribution

In Sydney, I mainly do book distribution on the street. We are also very fortunate to have a strong team of six Devamrita Swamis bramacaris opening the storehouse of love of God on the streets of hundreds of suburbs in Sydney. Since I took to the Grhasta asram, I have found another avenue for book distribution – inside our house. We set up a shop in the foyer with mainly books but other paraphenalia also. So we do home programs...

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