Book Distribution is also chanting
Regarding Sankirtana and book distribution, book distribution is also chanting. Anyone who reads the books that is also chanting and hearing. Why distinguish between chanting and book distribution? These books I have recorded and chanted, and they are transcribed. It is spoken kirtanas. So book distribution is also chanting. These are not ordinary books. It is recorded chanting. Anyone who reads, he is hearing. Book distribution must...
Real happiness
by Madhu Mangala das I approached two young men in Durban sitting outside a table at a beach front hotel in Durban. I introduced myself to them and told them I was a traveling monk. I presented Srila Prabhupada’s books to them – they did not seem interested in taking some of Srila Prabhupada’s books (they were more interested in their beers). The one young man told me that he was alright and that he did find such...
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From Jayananda das Regarding Nrsimhadeva on SKT: One time I was distributing books in Munich with Varaha Murti Prabhu, a stalwart German SKTer for many years. We were in the midst of several weeks of very successful distribution, and on this one particular day he was making an extra endeavor to distribute 100 big hard books. As evening arrived and it began to get dark, Varaha had just about reached his goal (he had distributed 96 or...
The Cell Phone Blues
"Excuse me, sir." "Yes? Sorry, I just got a call." Cell phones! Everyone has one, even ten-year-olds. It's unbelieveable. Sometimes there are two or three people walking along our sacred sankirtan spots, each one talking on a phone. It is a great offense to interrupt such a person, so we usually just let them pass. When I am speaking to someone and the phone rings, I want to grab the thing and throw it about a...
Work in the Office like, the Battle of Kuruksetra
written by Braja Bihari, Chowpatti India. This is the story of one man who bought Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita in the year 1980 and placed it on his book shelf. Time passed quietly but surely the 'bomb' was ticking and waiting to explode. Many books, newspapers, and magazines were dumped away annually during the Diwali maha-cleaning but somehow the Bhagavad Gita stayed. Once a year, this gentleman religiously removed...
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