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Srila Prabhupada Letter to Yogesvara, December 28th 1971
“If there are ample books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books.” “If there are ample books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Cyavana, December 26th 1971
“So far books are concerned, it appears that it will be difficult to bring books there from other places, due to financial reasons of the government, so whatever they will allow you to send, you may send to the book fund and receive that amount of books. Try to get big books in this way, especially for our life members, by persuading the government to allow us. For other books we can print in Nairobi through that Mr. Patel who owns a very modern press facility. Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity. Without...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Sri Galim, December 17th 1971
“One thing, you say that literature distribution is low; actually, the test of the strength of our preaching work is that we sell many books and magazines. So what is the difficulty? Simply preach very sincerely to anyone and everyone, and go on in this way preaching more and more, and the demand for our books will...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Hiranyagarbha dasa, November 22nd 1971
“A man is known by his notions and by his words. But sometimes it may appear that he is doing something, but he may be thinking something else. So a man is really known when he speaks, then everything is revealed. So if this Mayavadi sannyasi does not speak, then he can fool everyone. But if you force him to speak he will expose himself, therefore he is silent. Even he remains silent, we shall speak very loudly and expose these bogus men. Let our philosophy be challenged by anyone and we shall defeat them. I want that you distribute our...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Badrinarayana dasa, November 18th 1971
“You have been my student for some time, and I consider that you are one of the big men who are assisting me in this vast work, so I am naturally concerned for your well-being. I want that you should give up this idea of outside living and working and regard it only as a temporary trick of maya. I need such strong men as yourself to stick with me and together we shall go back home, back to Godhead. If you have no other engagement, I would be greatly pleased if you could take up this work of selling my books and literatures everywhere,...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Sridhama dasa, November 17th 1971
“You state that you will be the largest distributor of Back to Godhead in the world. This statement is very pleasing to me, because more than anything I want that my students should distribute my books and literatures profusely all over the world, and this should be our foremost concern, how to do it properly. But one thing, now you must try very hard to live up to your promise of becoming largest...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Lalita Kumara, November 15th 1971
“If you simply push on this one activity of distributing my books, your all success will be there. I have hatched this ‘transcendental plot' for getting money by selling my books, and if we stick only to this plan, and use our brain for selling books, there will easily be sufficient money. I have recently informed the GBC to allow each temple to keep 25% of the money they collect from direct book and magazine sales for temple maintenance, 75% to be sent to book fund. Supposing you can sell 800 dollars a week worth of...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Karandhara, October 9th 1971
“Regarding printing our books and literatures, I may inform you in this connection that I saw one bulletin of ‘Indian Railways' in which it was specifically advised that every railway servant should see to it that the wheels of the carriages or vehicles must be moving always, which means that the railway is going nicely. Similarly all of us should see that our literatures are profusely distributed. That means that our missionary work is going on nicely. Otherwise we are simply sleeping and eating. The literature we have...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Nityananda and Kanya, August 26th 1971
“I am so glad to hear that your program is going on so nicely there in New Orleans and especially that sankirtana and Back to Godhead distribution are so successful. That is very encouraging. This sankirtana and Back to Godhead distribution is our main business and you should give as much energy in this direction as possible. Also your traveling sankirtana party to various universities in the Southern cities is wholly approved by...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Professor Kotovsky, June 24th 1971
''Whatever is done by a great nation or a great man is followed by ordinary persons, so it is my mission to distribute the treasure-house of India's transcendental knowledge to the whole world, and your cooperation in this connection will be a great...
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