WSNL for August 2023

The big news for August is that a 72-year-old devotee was the No. 1 book distributor, and this isn’t his first time. Bhrgupati Prabhu did 6,666 book points, going out to college campuses for five hours, five days a week. Yesterday, for example, he collected over $1,200 and distributed over a hundred books. Bhrgupati gets Krsna’s mercy. Now for the world. In the Large Temple category, the No. 1 temple was Mayapur, which did 129,795...

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On their way home, back to Godhead
Sep28

On their way home, back to Godhead

In the first photo: These people had read about Vedic culture in a book by a French scholar, so they receptively conversed with Bhakta Gustavo and purchased a set of books. In the second photo is Carol. She felt tired due to worrying about her own and her family’s futures in this difficult world. She found hope in the message she heard from Gustavo and trusted his recommendation to read some special books. In the third photo is...

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Distribution on Radhastami
Sep27

Distribution on Radhastami

Mahananda Murari Prabhu met a friendly couple from Brasília in Curitiba. They are students of the world’s religions. He was once a Christian pastor, and at a certain point he realized that he should broaden his spiritual horizons. He began to welcome boooks from Eastern schools, as he did today, happily purchasing BBT books. Their photo is attached, and in another photo we have Neto and Emelin. They met devotees at other times...

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Krishna is all-attractive, which attracts people to ISKCON
Sep23

Krishna is all-attractive, which attracts people to ISKCON

After a Food for Life program in Florianópolis, Bhakta Gustavo entered the temple and noticed two women outside, standing in front of the gate, looking inside at the temple room and the altar (visible from the street sidewalk). He invited them in, and their conversation culminated in them happily acquiring a Gita. (first picture) Carla and Paulo followed daily online classes and then finally visited us. They liked it so much that from...

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A great example of the power of a single book by Srila Prabhupada
Sep22

A great example of the power of a single book by Srila Prabhupada

In sankirtana on the streets, the devotees of the Florianópolis temple met Alessandro (first photo), a public elementary-school teacher, who took a book and visited us at a festival. He was so impressed with the experiences that he invited us to a program to present our culture to his students. A team led by Temple President Rasarnava Gauranga Prabhu was then assembled, with Bhakta Gustavo and Bhakta Enoque and Bhaktin Marília (a...

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