Metal Festival
Jul19

Metal Festival

At the end of June there was a yearly heavy-metal festival called "Tuska (pain) Open Air Festival" in Kaisaniemi Park in the center of Helsinki. I can easily get into some small talk with the participants of this festival, and on that weekend we distributed books at the Helsinki railway station, near Kaisaniemi. Some 36,000 people participated in this festival, and streets were colored, or should we say, darkened, with men...

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Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 12
Jul17

Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 12

Dedicated to Srila Prabhupada and the wonderful devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu I have less that forty days left in Iraq. I look back at my time spent preaching in this area and am amazed. Not amazed at what I accomplished, because actually I did nothing. I just assisted Srila Prabhupada. But amazed at situations and realizations the Supreme Lord allowed me to experience. The Lord allowed me to be able to do a little service...

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Book Distribution Nectar
Jul15

Book Distribution Nectar

Hari bol Dravida Prabhu, could you please edit this for me? Your Servent  Vijaya Das Book Distribution Nectar From Darkness of Nescience to Light of Godhead Sunday Feast Last year the Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty bus party went to the coal-mines to distribute Srila Prabhupda's books. After a heavy saturday we decided to take a break on Sunday. we decided to just cover the morning shift and return at 11 am to...

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Marathons in Germany
Jul09

Marathons in Germany

Marathon in by Sadbhuja Dasa This was my second Prabhupada marathon in Germany, and I have my own van, which I share with two other devotees. During this Marathon I was distributing around sixty-five books a day. My senior devotee, Varaha Prabhu, put together a tour for me. One day he called and asked where I will be distributing the next day, and I told him the name of the city. He said in an encouraging way, "Oh, that's a...

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Book Distribution by the Congregation
Jul08

Book Distribution by the Congregation

By Vijaya das Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was recently asked by my Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to go to Silicon Valley (near San Francisco) to see how Vaisesika Prabhu has stimulated an explosion of book distribution there. Svavas Prabhu was hoping I could learn how to duplicate their success in New Dvaraka. I was quite impressed, to say the least. One weekend a month,...

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