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Coventry,UK: I had the great fortune to go out on a harinama on Lord Nityananda's appearance day. A pleasant gentleman called Robert, who was with his young daughter, wanted to talk with us. Both he and his daughter loved the harinama and wanted to know more about Hare Krsns. We were suprised when he told us his daughter's name was Ananda, an unusual name for an English girl. He told us the story behind her name: Many years ago he and his wife were devastated to learn that they would never be able to have a child for medical...
read moreFamous Musician Receives the Mercy
Gargamuni Prabhu from Slovenia wrote: I've just come from two harinams, in which we sit and perform bhajan-style chanting. In one small city in the north of Slovenia (near Dravograd), I talked to the most (or one of the most) popular singers in Slovenia. He writes good, sometimes funny lyrics that carry strong points about the stupid lifestyles people live. He accompanies himself with a guitar. He has been a vegetarian for many years and has some of Srila Prabhupada's books. He told me that "Life Comes from Life" changed...
read moreAnother Pre-judgement classic
I was on my first day on books with HH Devamrita Swami's team in Sydney, Australia. Inspired to seek some association I sought out some experience with the more experienced. We set out on my first sankirtana adventure in Sydney for the year, down to Town Hall. It was fairly busy, people would stop to look at the books and quite often take. As the day went on the mood started to sway the other way. Most people were still nice but they were feeling the day closing and they attempted to cherish their time a little more than usual. A wave of...
read moreDo not be judgemental
Often book distributors feel that they can judge who will take a book and who will not. Sometimes a truly seasoned book distributor may develop a sixth sense of sorts, but often our intuitions are plain prejudices and not indications from the Supersoul. The best method is to approach everyone with a book. Govind Kunda Prabhu, from Belgaum, recalls his experiences: I distribute books in long-distance trains. During the December marathon we would distribute for many hours in a day. Once, I entered a new train car wherein a well-dressed young...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 37
Pretoria, South Africa I arrived in Pretoria via Durban and received a phone call from the temple president that I would have to walk over to the international arrival terminal to get picked up with HH Bhakti Narasimha Swami. I met Maharaja at the airport and we chatted about the future of South African preaching. For the temple devotees it was nice for Maharaja to spend sometime at the temple. When senior devotees come to the temple, it charges the ashram devotees batteries and they are ready to go back out and preach. That evening I took...
read moreTexas Book Distribution
While distributing books in El Paso Texas I approached a young man who was a medical student. I told him that "In your biology classes they only tell you the symptoms of life. This book tells you what life actually is that permeates the body as consciousness." He bought the "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" One time while I was being rejected by someone who was trying to hand the book back, a girl with her Pakistani boyfriend overheard us and asked if we had a Hare Krishna center nearby. Her name was Govinda Gonzales,...
read moreThe joy of Book Distribution
Laxmi Narayana Prabhu, the head of ISKCON Pune's traveling sankirtana bus party shared this story. He recalls: I once went to a village and parking our bus in a square made an anouncement about the books. Many people came and were taking books. An elderly lady came up to me and asked for a Srimad Bhagwatam set in Marathi. I told her that only the first four volumes of the set were available and that set would cost her Rs. 880/- She asked the price of the first canto. "Rs. 150/- "I said." She opened her cloth bag and began...
read moreDo you know where I can get a full set of Srimad Bhagavatam?
Recently I got a call from this really nice couple. They are originally from Chennai but they have been living in Melbourne for a few years, they were introduced to krsna consciousness a year ago, now they have recently moved to Sydney. They invited me to come their house last Sunday. I did some books near their house in Banks Town Sydney and then went to their house in the evening. I actually went there hoping to sell a set but to my surprise I saw a new full volume of 1st canto sitting near their altar. I was happy to see them reading it,...
read moreMonk and parking officer
In a small mall in Campsie, South West Sydney, Australia, I spent the first half of the morning distributing to various types of people and Krsna allowed some very sweet exchanges. Then finally the security guard woke up or just clocked on and he asked me to leave. On my way out I saw this very sweet Phillipino boy exiting out the same sliding doors I was, so I hurried ahead and positioned myself away from the entrance and next to a row of parked cars. I approached him and put the Bhagavad gita in his hands and told him I was a monk. He was...
read moreNever Give Up
Hare Krishna. Please Accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 1 week to go and I leave for America. When I arrive I'll get my RV revved up for the biggest Book Distribution festival tour of my life. I can hardly wait. I have been in Perth, Western Australia now for six months. It was the biggest challenge of my life, due to certain circumstances but Srila Prabhupada said that Victory after great struggle is glorious. All in all a few thousand books went out, a few people are getting more involved with Krishna...
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