Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 12
Jun21

Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 12

LETTERS JAILS ARE NOW BECOMING GOLOKA VRNDAVANA A letter from Jivananda dasa, a prison inmate Dear Mahat-tattva dasa Prabhu, Please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances! All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada! Syamasundara dasa Prabhu has told me about your kind and wonderful service called Sastra Dana Project, and that you send him lots of books to send to prison libraries and inmates. I want to say thank you....

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Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 11
Jun21

Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 11

A THIEF By Mahat-tattva dasa A few days ago I went to a Starbucks coffee shop near New Dvaraka to donate some of Srila Prabhupada’s books. I go two or three times a year to this shop to replenish the books we previously donated, because sometimes people steal them from coffee shops. No one should steal, of course, but still we think this is wonderful because it means people are interested in reading them! One of Krishna’s...

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Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 11
Jun21

Los Angeles SD Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 11

TURN A MUNDANE ERRAND INTO A VISIT TO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD By Bhaktin Sara Bock If you are living and working outside the temple community, you probably perform many daily activities like going to the bank, grocery store, or gas station, or driving your kids around. When these activities are done in Krishna Consciousness, they are not mundane. But how to maintain this Krishna Consciousness with all the distractions and responsibilities...

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Book Distribution from Mumbai
Jun17

Book Distribution from Mumbai

"We Just can't do it!!" Bhakta Parimal rejected the proposal. As they turned to me, I flustered, "Well..er..mm, I mean" I was not sure myself. Vitthaldeva Prabhu insisted, "Prabhus, this is the best time to do it. Let's just go for it". We had our apprehension, although we knew it wasn't a bad idea after all. We wondered how the crazy Mumbaiites would react. Will the people appreciate our...

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Starting a Discusion
Jun17

Starting a Discusion

Dear devotees and Candrasekhar prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I liked your point about giving a very straight forward presentation of yourself as a representative of ISKCON when disributing Prabhupada's books. I did stickers and a few books nine years ago. I am indebted to the devotees who gave me the opportunities to do this service, but it was more or less explained to me that if I...

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