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Enthusiasm is all we need
Today, outside Tottenham Court Road Station, I met Carl, originally from Paris. I asked him what his proudest achievement in life is. He smiled & said it was arriving in London some years ago, learning English from scratch, completing his MBA & now serving as Head of Sales at a Finance Technology company near the London Bridge Monument. I offered him a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, however, Carl declined to take it. He explained that he had already read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch & that book had answered all his...
read moreKRISHNA REALLY CARES
Saturday evening I was having a rough time on sankirtana. Though books were going out, the pace was slow. One might think that Mayapur would be an easy place to sell Srila Prabhupada’s books. Then one needs to try it and see how it goes. I started wondering if the Supreme Personality of Godhead cared about my efforts to distribute His message. I knew that the people who purchased Srila Prabhupada’s books from me were benefiting. They were receiving Srila Prabhupada’s association. What I wasn’t sure of was if there was...
read moreThe ecstacy of distributing Krsna Book
My focus has been on distributing Krsna books. This is to prove that distributing these books does not impede ones ability to distribute a lot of books as I have noted devotees can be hesitant to distribute Krsna books as they think it may be “too direct”. In having this focus I noticed a lot of people already know about Krsna and they are very honest and glorify the Hare Krsnas. It has been very ecstatic, and a lot of people who I have met have come to The Loft. While in the heat of this Krsna book distribution I met a 6 ft 5in...
read moreTHE FIRE OF PURIFICATION
A boy approached our book table and listened attentively about the Bhagavad-gita, then gave a $10 donation. He told us how wildfires had swept through his community of Palos Verdes, destroying most homes, though his parents’ house was spared. He felt very sad because his high school had burned to ashes. It was his senior year there, and his eyes watered as he spoke. The boy didn’t have words to describe what he’d been through, but he was starting to find them. He said he knew there was something providential about the fire,...
read moreDistributing Books in Bars and Pubs
I now live in India with my wife, but when I’m back in Ireland I also go into pubs to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books when I move from shop to shop. I approch the staff members mainly, and quite often they take books. I tend to avoid the customers though, as talking to drunk people can be a real waste of time. It so happens that sometimes a customer may spontaneously decide to buy a book after hearing me talk with the boss or a bartender. Recently I was in a pub, but the owner was not interested. On my way out I saw a man put...
read moreWSN February 2024 – World Sankirtan Newsletter
Please see the attached PDF file for the latest worldwide book distribution results, which contains charts and images. WSN 2025 – February
read morePAWS THAT GAVE HIM PAUSE
As told by Pandava Sakha Prabhu, the following incident happened somewhere in Western Europe: While out on harinama and book distribution one day, a group of devotees were confronted by some Christian ministers, who constantly insulted them and even hired some skinheads (neofascists) to attack them. Dressed in black shirts with swastikas, the skinheads came in front of the devotees brandishing stakes, clubs, and chains. Not knowing what to do, the devotees froze until one brave devotee stepped up to the skinheads and started insulting them,...
read moreFROM BUDDHA TO KRSNA
While visiting Milan, Italy, I met a devotee who had previously been a Buddhist monk. When I asked him how he became a Vaisnava, he said he once had a teacher who taught Shaolin Kung Fu. He would come to the Buddhist monastery to teach the monks. “One day when he came he was singing. He had brought a harmonium and was singing very beautifully. When I later asked him what he was singing, he said he was singing the Damodarastakam. I wrote down the name and later looked it up online and found out it’s about Krsna. “The next...
read moreTHE OFFENSE, THE REMEDY, AND THE REMINDER
I went to one factory in Russia to distribute books. On meeting the secretary I asked to see the director. She went to tell the director that someone wanted to meet him. When he came out and saw me, he asked if I was a Hare Krsna. I said, “Yes, I am.” He then said to the secretary, “Don’t let him go, I’m going to call the police. These people should be crushed like cockroaches.” I quietly slipped out the door and went on to other places. What happened afterwards was amazing. When the director went home, he...
read moreTHE MIRACLE OF SRILA PRABHUPADA’S BOOKS
One year ago, a young girl named Kavita Kukde met me. She looked troubled, lost, and full of doubts about life, and even about the existence of God. As we spoke, I felt inspired to give her a copy of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita, told her how powerful this book is, and encouraged her to read it with faith. That was all. I never expected to see her again. But on 6 March 2025, after one whole year, we met again. And when I saw her, I could hardly believe my eyes. She was not the same girl I had met before. Her face glowed with peace, her...
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