Ratha Yatra Los Angeles
Hari Hari We just had a really nice Ratha Yatra here in LA, they say it was the biggest ever. I was at the book both, behind me was a full set of the Srimad Bhagavatam so I started meditating on how nice it would be if I could distribute it. A half hour later an Indian man came to the table. I asked him if he had the Bhagavad Gita, he said he did, I then asked him if he liked to read, he did. That was all I needed to hear, I started...
Prague, Czech
I was on a train to Prague from Berlin, while I was in my compartment chanting gayatri a young man steps in and ask if he could come in because someone in the other compartment is smoking. I invite him in and he starts a conversation while I'm chanting gayatri, what to do. Then as he's eating his cake I take it as a chance to finish. Then we started talking, it turns out that he is from Culver City California, where I was...
Los Angeles. SD Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 16
SRILA PRABHUPADA LOCAL LIBRARIES Letter to Jagadisa I am so pleased to know that your efforts at placing our books in the local libraries is successful and it is especially heartening to learn that they already have got our books on their shelves. EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED Srimad Bhagavatam 6.10.6 Cäëakya Paëòita says, san-nimitte varaà tyägo vinäçe niyate sati: everything within this...
Los Angeles SD Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 16
VANCA KALPA… PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE By Mahat-tattva das Srila Prabhupada said he would never die, that he would live forever in his books. When two of Prabhupäda's sannyäsés were taking leave of him, he smiled pleasingly and said, “I may stay or go, but in my books I will live forever." When he heard that forty thousand hardbound books had been distributed in one week, he said, “If book...
Be an Instrument
H.H Hridayananda Goswami, "Yes; one should be humble. But at the same time one should recognize the incredible opportunities which Prabhupada is offering us to represent him in a very significant way. It reminds me of a phrase from the Bible which is inscribed on the Philosophy building, Emerson Hall, at Harvard University. I am sure it is a tremendous embarrassment to the current occupants of that building, who are often...




