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Punjabi Businessman Orders 2,800 Bhagavat Gitas…….
Hare Krishna ! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga ! All glories to Srila Prabhupada ! All glories to all the sankirtan devotees at all the times ! A sikh business man visited ISKCON Temple. He started speaking about his charitable nature. At that time His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj was at New Delhi in India. This sikh businessman met His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj and communicated the goodness of their holy book. " Guru Granth Sahib scripture."ÊTo which Maharaj added that both the Bhagavat...
read moreHave you got a story to tell?
All glories to Sri Krsna sankirtan! I was doing books in Swanston street Melbourne Australia. I stopped a young man rushing by and enthusiastically showed him the book and said what it was about. He said "Na mate gotta go." So I just continued approaching others. Then one hour later he came running back and said, "Hey mate I took off before, but something is telling me you have a story to tell. Can we catch up?" So I met him at our restaraunt in Crossways. He asked, so I said, "Yes, I have a story to tell, of my...
read moreMy heart jumped……….
Dear Devotees, We were in Marylands Sydney. Madhavendra Puri prabhu was unleashing his attack on the main street while I was ducking in & out of the mini mall covert style. One male security guard was too busy getting to know the girl (Mayadevi) in the shoe shop to notice me. So I was getting some real nectar hits against maya. One big lady from New Zealand appeared in my vision. Kiwi's are always favourable so I was excited to stop her. She was happy to be holding one of Prabhupadas books. As I was talking to her I noticed a female...
read moreMaktar the Bhakta Part2
Maktar the Bhakta continued…. We had met three times at Govindas, I thought it time to bring him even closer to Krsna so I invited him to my home for dinner. I cooked nice prasadam. While we were taking prasad he asked me "Can Krsna appear in a dream?" I told him yes, I'm reading in CC about the lord appearing in His devotee Madhavendra Puri's dream. Also when I was a young boy on New Govardhan farm I would sometimes have nightmares of drowning or sometimes demons would attack the farm and Krsna would save us." I...
read moreWhen it rains it Pours
The Panihati Festival was in Atlanta was great. Devotees from all over the world converged on New Panihati Dham for the festival due to HH Jayapataka Swami being present. It was his first time traveling outside india since his stroke. Many senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada were present. Excitement was in the air. I was talking about book distribution with some senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada, they told stories of the seventies and how they distributed books in the airport. The stories were amazing and despite leaving the next day for...
read moreMaktar the Bhakta Part 1
We were distributing in front of a church in New Town, Sydney. One African bodied man popped his head out of an African restaurant next door. He said "What you got?" So I showed him Bhagavata Gita. He said "I got no money but can I have the little book (Perfect Escape written by HH Devamrita Swami)?" Though I thought he had been a bit abrupt I gave it to him and continued my service. The next time I went to New town he rolled up on his bike, he is a chef at the restaurant. He said "I want the big one!" So I gave...
read moreWithout humility, we can succeed at nothing………
I distributed books in the upmarket Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. On the 3rd floor I met a young Indian man wearing neck beads. I asked him where he got the beads, and he told me that they were Rudaksa beads and that he was a brahamana. I told him that I was a traveling monk from South Africa and asked whether he was from Nairobi. Yes, he said. He owned a travel agency in the mall. I showed him a selection of books, to which he replied that he has most of them. I suggested that he take books as gifts for his clients and friends....
read moreWhat a counting game, just numbers, no souls….
Hare Krishna I was distributing in Kassel, a big city in Germany. It was during the Marathon. I had a quota of 100 Books a day. I really wanted to distribute that much. The previous days had been very nice. But this day my mentality became that of an ass. WORK WORK WORK. No compassion, no Krsna, no taste…. Oh what a counting game, just numbers, no souls….uff tough stuff. In the first 3 Hours I distributed 25 books. I distributed from 9 – 12 then I took a break and again from 2pm to 7pm. That was my schedule. Well, my heart...
read moreThe Never Ending Book Buyer
The day was looking to be a typical day on sankirtana it seemed. All of a sudden I heard my sankirtana partner, Uddhava Prabhu, having an animated discussion. He laughed out loud all of a sudden. It was hard to tell from his laugh if he was jubilant or upset. The man left his company and walked down my way. I wasn't sure how to react but he approached me. He engaged me in conversation and started to tell me all about different words in Sanskrit. I wasn't sure if any of it was bona fide but he seemed to be very favorable to the...
read moreHis name is Krishna
There is a young lady who came to live in our temple in Sao Paulo Brazil three months ago, she is 19 years old and is fire up to distirbute books, a few days ago she told us a nice story: "I stopped one lady, showed her a book, explained it a little, then after looking at the book for a while she said: "Hey, wait a minute, Krishna! This is the name of my son." I said: "Oh very nice, so you like the Hare Krishnas?" "No, I have no idea what this is. I gave this name to my son becouse I had a dream with this name...
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