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Anyone Can Take a Book
by Caitanya Chandra Das (Porto Alegre, Brazil) As I distributed books last Sunday morning in the park, I saw one guy who seemed a bit gloomy. I stopped him and started my usual mantra: "Hello, I'm from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. We're distributing some books about spiritual knowledge. They" He interrupted me and said, "I'm looking for a girlfriend. Can you help me?" Before I could reply he repeated the question, adding a note of desperation: "I reeealy need a girlfriend. Can you...
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On the bus, en route to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa, we stopped at a rest stop. Coming back into the bus, I noticed a young man, and said to him: "By the way you are dressed, it looks like you are on your way to the Grahamstown Arts Festival." He replied that he was going to the festival, and his accent sounded Spanish. So I greeted him in Spanish, and he said that he is from Brazil. I introduced myself, telling him that I am a traveling monk and that I am also going to the festival. I told him that I teach yoga...
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My wife and I currently reside in India. Usually, when we travel by train, I take books with me to distribute. En route from Kolkata to Chennai, I went to distribute and, as sometimes happens, could distribute only one big book. On my way through the compartments one morning I met a young Muslim and showed him the books. He told me in broken English that he lives in Navadvip, nearby our Mayapur temple and was now traveling to his work place. After that I went back to our compartment. Later, in the afternoon, I again tried my luck, but people...
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