Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 24
VANCA KALPA… INATTENTIVENESS By Mahat Tattva Dasa It seems that kirtan is becoming a standard part of the Sastra Dana home programs. At the last program at Jonathan Prabhu’s place devotees lost the control over themselves and without any consideration of time and circumstances performed a wild, uncontrollable kirtan very loudly chanting Krishna’s holy names. It was so ecstatic that we were not able to take any...
Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 24
MEDITATION A letter His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami sent to his disciples’ conference Dear devotees, Please accept my best wishes and blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, by whose mercy we all now have the chance to chant Hare Krishna. The month of December marks the Srila Prabhupada book distribution marathon. Throughout this month devotees throughout the world will be making special efforts to distribute more of Srila...
Who’s in control? (Bh Gary – South Africa)
Hare Krsna. Please accept my humble obeiscances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his Sincere servants. Krsna is in control and he can do what he likes. Book distribution is a very effective way to realize this. A little while ago a few devotees and myself went to the airport for sankirtan. Somehow or the other that day was just not going my way. I got caught up in organizing all sorts of things in the morning after an extremely...
Interfaith encounters and Lord Nityananda’s Mercy
Most sankirtan devotees probably feel uncomfortable when a Christian priest enters the distribution scene. Quite often they just give you trouble, but there have been quite a few occasions when they turned out to be positive and encouraging. Here are couple of very interesting stories. We were distributing in a small town near Helsinki, called Tuusula, and it was quite a good day. There is one good parking lot (It looks like a small...
Book Distribution Marathon
Dear devotees, Again the December book distribution marathon for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada is nigh. Again devotees from all over the world will be making even greater sacrifices than usual in their sincere endeavors to distribute more and more of Srila Prabhupada's wonderful life-changing books. Due to the climate, book distribution can be especially difficult in much of the northern hemisphere during December, yet we have...




