Prescribed Duties and Sankirtana Yajna
By Dayananda das “Material prescribed duties” are simply honest, responsible work.(1) Regarding sva-dharma (prescribed duties), the Gita, Bhagavatam, and Cc all explain dharma and sva-dharma, and their teachings should be coordinated for a good understanding. Krishna and Prabhupada teach that karma-yoga is the preliminary stage of bhakti.(2) For ISKCON followers, karma-yoga means that devotees offer the results of their...
What comes around goes around
by Vijaya Dasa While distributing on the mall in Moscow, Acala Dasa, the regional Sankirtan Minister for Russia, approached a woman and offered her a book. He explained some of the contents, and she enthusiatically took it. Seeing her enthusiasm he invited her to the temple, and a few weeks later she visited. By coincidence, she arrived on the day the devotees were holding a book distribution seminar. Seeing her come as a result of...
What happened to your hand?
By Adiguru das This morning my wife, Kamalagopi devi dasi, had given ‘Billie’ some Maha Flowers offered to our beloved Sri Sri Radha Neelmadhava deities. She was smelling those flowers again and again and thanked us profusely and especially my wife. She put on those flowers on the dash-board of her car. As i again took that cab with ‘Billie’ to Houston airport, I asked her where are the books that she had so...
The Most Ecstatic skp Newsletter Of All Time!
By Hari-sauri dasa Here’s nice story from 1975 Thanksgiving Day in America. Ramesvara had sent a report about book distribution in America (this is a little long but its well worth the read): December 9, 1975 Vrindavana “Ramesvara concluded enthusiastically, “Our only desire is to surrender our lives to help publish and distribute millions of Your Divine Grace’s wonderful books. Here in LA they are selling over...
On the way to San Francisco
By Adiguru das I ususally take cabs to travel to the Houston airport. Sometimes it gives me amazing opportunity to preach. I met this cab driver ‘Billie’ who runs her car only in night. We started talking about human nature and how complex is it to satisfy a human being. Then she told us that she was interested in universal brotherhood and sorority and that she believed in a universal God. She had lots of her ideas so I...
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