Blissful “Arabian Nights”
As part of the marathon season, devotees went *door to door* for a couple of weeks to distribute books. Today was a special and historic day for the Toronto Sankirtan Warriors.
We visited an apartment at Kipling & Finch last week, where there were many Arabic-speaking members of a household who did not understand English. Unfortunately, we did not carry any Arabic books. So this week we packed Arabic books, but only to run out of them within a couple of hours. Devotees met many Arabic speaking families who generously donated laxmi and showed interest. The moment we showed them an Arabic title, they were inquisitive and happy.
Since we ran out of books, Radha-Mohan Dasa agreed to drive all the way back to the temple to bring more Arabic books. This made a huge difference in today's book score.
Our score (drumroll!) for "our Arabian night," which included over fifteen devotees out for more than nine hours, was more than two hundred books, of which seventy-two were Arabic books. This was the first time in Toronto we distributed that many Arabic books in a single day.
After a super-ecstatic weekend, along with this great score and by the efforts of so many devotees, we surpassed our goal for the number of books distributed!
Your servant, Anjan
TO ALL TEMPLES AND SANKIRTAN PARTIES WORLDWIDE … PLEASE NOTE! YOU can also get Srila Prabhupada's books in Arabic — as well as in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi and Vietnamese. Most of the international BBT divisions are already carrying them, or will be soon!
With their award-winning and culturally-focused cover designs, these beautiful books are the most popular with the foreign tourists, foreign students and urban communities who have been asking, if not begging, for our books in their own languages for about 30 years! They often reach out for them and can be very generous too!
To see these books and to share in the above Sankirtana BLISS, please go now to the website of the BBT Far East/Middle East division at BBTFEME.COM!
Your servant,
Vijaya dasa
www.iskconbookdistribution.com
