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No 1 Women Sport Star Receives Bhagavad – Gita
By bh. Mohan The day before elections we set a book stall in Laksmi Narayana Temple in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. All of a sudden the crowd became excited seeing famous athletic Olympic medallist and ex. world record holder in running Mrs. Susanthika Jayasingha entering the Temple. She was accompanied by election candidate Mr. Priyanda Patiran and the body guards. After taking darshan of the Lord she passed by our book stall where we called her closer and asked her which language she prefers. She told that Singhala, and we immediately gave her...
read moreLove is the Power
During 21 year of sankirtana practice I understood that the most important thing in spiritual book distribution is your purity. The more you love God, the more spiritual vision you have to help people. Sankirtana is divine love and compassion. Nothing more. It does not have anything with material business. You can try, but nobody will take scriptures from your hands. Rather some of them will spit in your face, because they are demoniac or atheistic. Or see your real motive. And even more, they do not know Who Krishna is, so they don't...
read moreSelling Books After Class in Russia
by Mahadyuti Dasa In Nizhny Novogorod, a city in Russia, after a Bhagavatam class attended by about thirty devotees, I told everyone that Srila Prabhupada once said that anyone who doesn't attend mangal-arotik will be fined and the fine is to sell one KRSNA book (lecture in Los Angeles, 1 June 1972). And then I said that since most of them had missed mangal-arotik, they each had to buy a KRSNA book and distribute it. Here's what they bought: 14 KRSNA books (six sets and two singles) 2 Bhagavatams...
read moreBook Distribution in Mahattan and Los Angeles
In Manahatan New York Rama Raya has done harinam every day for eight months in Union Square, so the atmosphere is transcendental. It is very easy to distribute book there because the kirtan is making everyone happy. Tovah, dressed like a conservative Jew, was excited about the Gita since her yoga teacher always told stories about Krsna. She gave such a big donation that she also got the KRSNA book. Another girl was just coming from a "spinning" class. That is a Sufi thing. She was very happy to get the Gita. Some men required long...
read moreRussia – A Special Place
Recently, while attending the annual Russian festival, I heard from the sankirtan devotees about some special book distributors. There is one team of distributors, father and son, both clad in saffron, who have great success distributing books together. During the sankirtan awards ceremony, they received awards for their outstanding service. Then there is Vacaspati Prabhu, who has no arms. He's been distributing books for the the last fifteen years. He tells people, "I have some great books I'd like you to see, but I can't...
read moreIndian Youth at a Crossroads
Inspired by a godbrother expert at distributing books, I accompanied him to a mall in Bangalore, as a newbie book distributor, to distribute Bhagavad Gita As It Is. Bangalore is one of India's westernized cities, with a widespread technology industry and supporting technology schools. I walked up to a pair of technology students who had just entered the mall and placed a Bhagavad Gita in their hands. Young adults in India are at a crossroads, confused between the indigenous Indian and Western cultures; these two were the best samples of...
read moreMotelGita Participates at the AAHOA Conference in Dallas
MotelGita participates at the AAHOA Conference in Dallas March 18th, 2011 – Members from the MotelGita Houston team participated in the AAHOA Convention in Dallas this week and bagged Orders for 2,500...
read moreMotelGita participates at the Annual AAHOA Convention in Las Vegas
By Akruranatha dasa On June 16 – 17, 2011, devotees from the Motel Gita Project (www.motelgita.org) attended the annual convention of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, requesting the owners of hotels and motels to include a copy of “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” in their guest rooms, as is commonly done with Gideon’s Bibles. The Motel Gita project previously had booths at AAHOA’s annual national conventions last year in Chicago and in 2009 in Washington, D.C., as well as in...
read more231 Bhagavad Gitas Placed
MotelGita has placed 231 Bhagavad Gita's in following Motel's 1. Starlight Inn at H.B, CA – 49 2. Colonial Motel, CA – 60 3. Coast Motel, CA – 26 4. Rodeway Inn, CA – 48 5. Torrance Travelodge –...
read moreThe Gita Arrives Timely
Janardana was accompanying me on door-to-door book distribution in Adilade Australia for the day. Before we left, I had prayed to Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai and Sri Sri Radha-Shyamasundara here at Adelaide temple that They send us to some souls ready for the mercy of Srila Prabhupada. We ended up at a small beach town and parked the car. We went to the first house. It was a flat with a couple and their two children. I presented the Gita and explained that it is for relieving stress and teaching about higher values in life. They both seemed to...
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