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Book Distribution Nectar by HG Vaisesika Prabhu, ISKCON Silicon Valley
Audio Lecture on Book Distribution Nectar by Vaisesika Prabhu at ISKCON Silicon Valley on 21 Dec 2011 Download Audio
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Amogha dasa, 18th February 1976
“I have received a letter from Gopala Krsna wherein he states that you are distributing our books to libraries. That is solid. Simply by bluffing words these bogus gurus and yogis are actually accomplishing nothing. But when the people read our books then they will get good...
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Distribute Books…Distribute Books… Marathon Message by H.H Kavichandra Swami Download
read moreBook Distribution Success Through Kirtan
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. During a recent visit to one main city in Khasadesa, our party distributed 225 Chinese Bhagavad-gitas. We did this through holding kirtan programs and making short, convincing presentations of Bhagavad-gita As It Is. We have found that once we capture peoples' hearts through kirtan, it is much more likely they will then purchase a book. I strongly believe that if we can combine kirtan with book distribution and prasadam, it is a very powerful way to...
read moreThe World Sankirtan Newsletter for November 2015
r, the most improved temple throughout the world was Toronto, with a 492% increase and 6,144 book points. In Toronto, in November, it's cold, but still the devotees did the yajna and had a huge increase. All glories to their determination to get Krishna's message out to people despite the cold weather! Of course, other places also get cold, like parts of Europe and Asia where the temperature falls below freezing. It may be cold in these places, but there are devotees with such warm hearts that they aren't affected by the cold and...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Nalinikanta dasa, 21st November 1975
“I have read the clipping and you have also mentioned of the women wearing karmi clothes and going into sex movies and bars late at night for collecting. So this kind of canvassing should be immediately...
read moreA Hostel in Downtown San Diego
USA Hostels A hostel in downtown San Diego Bhakta Pedro was first exposed to Krishna consciousness in Portugal, the country where he grew up. At one point he moved to the US where he spent the first couple of years traveling and enjoying himself. Eventually he settled down in Ocean Beach, one of the towns that make up the city of San Diego. There he lived and worked at the local youth hostel. During this period he again came in contact with devotees who revived his interest in spiritual life. Krishna consciousness became his passion so much...
read moreSouth American BBT
by Madhava Smullen Spanish is the second most widely-spoken language in the Western World. And while many of the people of South America are poor, their piety and respect for religion is such that they will part with their last pennies in exchange for a spiritual book. On top of that, even staunch Catholics show a warm receptivity to yoga and Indian philosophy. Yet rather than triumph, history only reveals a dark struggle for the Spanish BBT. Book distribution in Spain diminished in the late eighties and early nineties after the ISKCON...
read moreBook Distribution is Contagious
Recently, Udhayan Prabhu, one of the devotees attending the Bhakti Vriksha program in our house, met me in the train that I distribute Srila Prabhupada's books in every day. He was on his way to Mumbai, but he spontaneously volunteered to carry the books and distribute some books himself. We did a good number of books that day. A few days later I met one of the persons who had taken a copy of the Ramayana in English compiled by Bhakti Vikasa Swami that very same day that Udhayan Prabhu and I were distributing books in the train. This lady...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Ramesvara, 1st January 1975
“If we simply speak nicely to a person and try sincerely to get him to take the book he'll take it. Why should we adopt unfair means? We should not do anything which will create a bad impression or make us unpopular. People are after these books, they are hankering for them. We don't need to take cheating method. I never had to use any cheating method when I first began. I simply presented the real thing. Basically and practically speaking everything that is done sincerely for Krsna's satisfaction is perfect. But we have to...
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