Srila Prabhupada on Free Books
Letter to: Cyavana Vrindaban 26 October, 1972 72-10-26 Nairobi My dear Cyavana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated October 16 and 9, 1972, and I have noted the contents with care. Brahmananda is collecting many life-members in Zambia, and if there is financial crisis there in Nairobi, why not he should send you the money he is collecting? He is not going to open centres there, there are not...
From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter
SRILA PRABHUPADA UVACA: [Lord Caitanya said,] “The conditioned soul cannot revive his Krishna consciousness by his own effort. But out of causeless mercy, Lord Krishna compiled the Vedic literature and its supplements, the Puranas. The forgetful conditioned soul is educated by Krishna through the Vedic literatures, the realized spiritual master and the Supersoul. … In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his...
From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
I would like to congratulate the devotees of New Dvaraka for effectively organizing the Sastra Dana program, which engages members of the Vaishnava community in helping to distribute transcendental literature, especially the books of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. As Srila Prabhupada's movement matures into a "normal" society with people of all ages and backgrounds, it is vital that Srila Prabhupada's society, as...
Sankirtan stories from the RVC
We were on Harinam chanting outside a large cinema which is also a kind of shopping center etc. One middle aged man came out with his wife. Bhakta Ryan approached him and gave him a book. He immediately started to get his wallet out but his wife became very determined not to let him give a donation and started to physically drag him away. He was also quite determined to give a donation and although his wife was dragging him along the...
From Bhakta Ryan at the RVC
I was distributing books at a table at the April Foods day fair in a local community college. And the table adjacent to us was the pagan church. I overheard a conversation between one of the women behind the table and an older man with a long white beard standing out in the aisle. She was explaining that she was a lesbian and the head of the church and that that was ok and I kind of watched his reaction the whole time through the...
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