Following the Editorial Audit Trail
By Madhava Smullen In the late 1990s, a BBT conference handling questions from translators sparked a renewed interest in the history of Srila Prabhupada’s books. To give satisfactory answers, BBT staff found they often had to go back to early manuscripts, Prabhupada’s dictated tapes, or original Sanskrit or Bengali texts. This wasn’t new to Govinda Madhava Dasa, who’d served with the BBT since 1980 and as North...
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 16
Battlefield Bhajans Vol 16 Dedicated to Srila Prabhupada, who by his mercy is allowing me assist him in some way Last Mangala Arati The ashram is officaly closed. Because we have to make room for our replacments, I had to move in with another senior leader in my unit. Before I moved I asked my detachment sergeant, if I could have one more day to do a last morning program. I sent out the invitations, and in the morning of the program,...
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 15
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 15 Dedicated to HDG A.C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada Transcendental Karaoke Only two and half more weeks left. So missions are slowing down, for me because of my operation I have been on no missions and taking it very easy. My focus has been on hearing and chanting and trying to absorb myself in Srila Prabhupada's books. My soldiers came and got me because I have been in my room for so long. So they took...
Book Distribution at Los Angeles Ratha Yatra
During the Ratha Yatra devotees distributed 3,000 little packets of Krsna's mercy, these packets contained a Reservoir of Pleasure, prasad, a Jaganath sticker and an invitation to the temple. It was so nice to see our little vaisnava youth distributing these little packs of mercy. This year we had six tables at the festival site. The festival was filled with people getting the mercy of Krsna in so many ways, prasad, books the holy...
Padayatra Slovenia – New Dimensions of Book Distribution
By Vasudeva Datta das Here in Slovenia we have just completed Padayatra 2008. This year we were walking from Ptuj to the second biggest city in the country, Maribor. Usually we walked through the villages but this year through the passionate city. We did not know what to expect but later it turned out to be the best preaching field. We more than doubled the sankirtan scores from the last year. We were 3 full-time book distributors and...