Full Surrender
Oct18

Full Surrender

Haribol Prabhus! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently, Niranjana Swami told me about an interesting person in Kiev, Ukraine. This person is an Orthodox Christian, but became attracted to Krsna consciousness after getting a book. He tried to live in the temple as brahmacari, but it was to foreign to him. So he went back to live in the Christian monastery, though still chanting sixteen rounds a...

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Godess Kali Priestess Gets the Mercy
Oct18

Godess Kali Priestess Gets the Mercy

October 14, 2002 Haribol, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here is one small book distribution story. Three of us from New Vrindavan had stopped off at a renaisance festival between Columbus, Oh and Cincinnati last weekend. As we were distributing from car to car during the incoming, I approached a really open minded looking young guy with his friends. I presented the Bhagavad Gita and started to explain,...

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Sankirtan in Turkey
Oct18

Sankirtan in Turkey

While attending the Russian Vaisnava Festival I had the pleasure of meeting a devotee named Krishna Prema Dasa that goes back and forth across the Black Sea to do business in Turkey. Some months ago he was bringing in a trunk of Srimad Bhagavatams to distribute to the many people who speak Russian there. He had the books under other cargo and was hoping to slip by the Turkish authorities but was stopped by their customs agents. As the...

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Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 20
Oct13

Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 20

…LILAS… "BUDDHIMANTA" MEMORIES Päëòava vijaya däs (USA) Buddhimanta had never met Srila Prabhupada and the president of the San Franscisco temple, Kesava das thought he should since he was the "biggest" book distributor at that time. They were all in Los Angeles and Buddhimanta had just come in from a day of distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. He had distributed about 100...

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Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 21
Oct12

Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 21

VANCA KALPA… ALL DECENT MEN By Mahat-tattva däs What follows is a summery of Dravida Prabhu’s talk delivered at the last Sastra Dana program on October 5th. Sastra Dana means giving charity of books. Srila Prabhupada was so successful because he was constantly giving. He didn’t come here to take but to give Krishna consciousness to as many as possible. Srila Prabhupada said that all DECENT men want to give...

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