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Marathon Inspiration talk, by His Grace Brgupati Prabhu
Marathon inspiration talk, by His Grace Brgupati Prabhu: November 20th, 2002 The book distribution marathon is not like an ordinary marathon. In an ordinary material marathon, only one person wins. But in the book distribution marathon, there may be one person who will distribute the most books, but everybody is a real winner. There can be an unlimited number of winners in the book distribution marathon. This is because anybody who really surrenders and participates in it with full enthusiasm, really putting his or her heart into it, will...
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Thank you, Vijaya prabhu, for the wonderful service of churning and sending out the sankirtan nectar. The following is a recent response from a student in Boulder. We recently met with him for a couple of days, upon returning to Colorado. He is already organizing a Krishna conscious club on campus. It is inspiring to see Srila Prabhupada's words penetrating the hearts of these sincere seekers. Your servant and friend, Tusta Krsna das Letter from this student: Hey Tusta, This is Marlin, the guy you met on the Boulder campus. Wow. I am...
read moreChowpatti (Mumbai) Book Distribution
"I had heard this one before. Not wanting to waste any more time with him, I left hurrying to catch up with the other devotees of the Gaur Nitai Harinam party". Rakshit Shetty Prabhu, a regular member of this fired up group, doing Harinaam Sankirtan all over Mumbai, witnessed this event as his convictions about book distribution became stronger. "I am sorry, I don't have any change. Actually I want to buy a book but unfortunately I…", these are standard excuses, offered by many reluctant people during book...
read morePlease be Patient
"Please stand in a line. We promise there's enough for all, and all of you will definitely get books." This is not simply a book distributor's dream but a reality, many a time witnessed by the bus party devotees. The bus party headed by H.G. Rupa Raghunath Prabhu visits various towns and cities, in and around Maharashtra. First, an advance party gets confirmations from a few companies, sometimes with a little persuasion, for distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books. A timetable is chalked out for the coming 2-3 weeks,...
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Dear Prabhus Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. A few weeks ago the GBC somehow asked me to take up the service of being the book distribution minister. First of off I'd like to thank Navina Nirada Prabhu for all the service he did as the BDM, he distributed thousands and thousands of books and also encouraged devotees all around the world to do the same. I pray that he bless me that I will also be able to make a contribution to the preaching mission of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. My plan is to travel to...
read moreUrdu Gita Report
SRILA PRABHUPADA'S BHAGAVAD-GITA AS IT IS PUBLISHED IN URDU by Amoghalila das At the end of August, 2001, Srila Prabhupada's complete Bhagavad-gita As It Is, translated into Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, went to press in Karachi. In early October the first copies came back from the printer. Within the next two months, devotees around Pakistan distributed over four hundred copies of this long-awaited book, undisturbed by the political unrest in their country. In 1985, Yasodanandana Prabhu (the late Prof. Yashpal Bhatia)...
read moreLos Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 24
MEDITATION A letter His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami sent to his disciples’ conference Dear devotees, Please accept my best wishes and blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, by whose mercy we all now have the chance to chant Hare Krishna. The month of December marks the Srila Prabhupada book distribution marathon. Throughout this month devotees throughout the world will be making special efforts to distribute more of Srila Prabhupada's books. Some will go out daily for long hours solely for this purpose. Others will make...
read moreThe Power of Prabhupada and the Hare Krsna mantra
In one small city in Spain I walked over to a man sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car and handed him a copy of The Science of Self-Realization. As he looked at the beautiful photograph of Srila Prabhupada on the cover, I spoke to him about the book and about the chanting of Hare Krsna. On the seat beside him I noticed a large knife, some whisky bottles, and what appeared to be a package of illegal drugs. The man accepted the book gave a donation and I left. A half an hour later he returned and asked to speak with me urgently....
read moreLos Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 21
CRELA PRABHUPÄDA Letter to Tamala Krsna, 17 March, 1970 Your marriage with Madri Dasi is a good news, and now with greater enthusiasm execute Krishna activities as I have advised Gurudas also. We must be fully equipped, and the preaching work by pairs of husband and wife will be an unique example to the world. Formerly the Acaryas were generally all Sannyasis, but Lord Caitanya, in His instruction to Roy Ramananda, who was a confidential devotee of Lord Caitanya, but a householder and responsible government official, Governor of Madras,...
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…letters… …letters… …letters… HIS WORDS ARE TRANSFORMING Letter from Guy Ralph Hamilla Thank you Prabhu for that wonderful story. I have felt from the beginning of my process of Krishna Consciousness that Srila Prabhupada brought me to the Temple. When I read Hari Sauri Prabhu's "Transcendental Diary, volume 1", the clear instructions of Srila Prabhupada placed me directly on this path. His first instruction I began to follow, seemingly from a power that was not me, was to chant the Maha...
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