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Thomas Merton distributes Prabhupada’s book…
Haribol prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here is a little story from our book distribution efforts so far this month. It was late morning, before any of the lunch hour crowd hit the street. I stopped an older lady who was walking by herself. I asked her if she liked to read. She was friendly, but said she was not interested because she was Catholic. "My parents are also Catholic", I replied, "Actually, I used to be an Altar Boy (assistant of the priest during mass)". She was a...
read moreLord Caitanya’s Movement – Simply Amazing!
We give books to anyone and everyone! We give books to devout people, we give books to butchers, we give books to soldiers in Iraq. We give books everywhere! Once one of our book distributors in Holland was distributing books in the offices of a business, and the authorities didn't like it and called the police. So he ran with his books into the street. He had the box of books in front of his belly and was running and running. As the police chased him, he turned the corner into one street – but he saw that it was a dead end! He...
read moreWe Want to Get a Certificate from Krsna That . . .
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The Srimad-Bhagavatam says that in the present age people in general are short-lived, lazy, misguided, unlucky, and, above all, always disturbed. In such an all-encompassing degraded atmosphere, to find someone willing to take up Krsna consciousness seriously is very, very rare. But we have to soldier on. We know Krsna wants us to distribute books that glorify Him, so we do it. As Prabhupada says in one conversation: Pradyumna: "What if people don't...
read moreAll the Book Distributors Will Go Back to Godhead
FRIENDS OF THE BBT DECEMBER NEWSLETTER Full Version: http://friendsofthebbt.org/newsletter/Dec08.html The Story of the Prabhupada Marathon by Madhava Smullen It may surprise you to learn that with over 464 million copies sold since 1965, Srila Prabhupada’s books have reached more souls than those of bestselling author Stephen King, who began his career at roughly the same time. To date, they’ve even sold more copies than the record-breakingly successful Harry Potter series an amazing achievement for books on a spiritual...
read moreThe Glorious Cell Phones
I stopped two young Chinese ladies which is something I usually do not do. We were having a good exchange but still they didn't seem so interested in the books. Then all of a sudden the cell-phone of one of them rang. She answers and goes a little distance from us. In my mind I was thinking: "That's it! My sale is finished now." But still I struggled to maintain a conversation with the one that was not on the phone. The one speaking on the phone comes back and asks, "What is the name of the book?"...
read moreHaving Faith in Krsna’s Empowerment by Sivarama Swami, Budapest
Audio lecture on Having faith in Krsnas empowerment by His Holiness Sivarama Swami on 05 December 2008 Download
read moreGuru Krpa
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Guru-krpa is the nectar that we are all aspiring for: yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado, yasyaprasadan na gatih gato 'pi. Recently I experienced a small fraction of the import of this. Here in Los Angeles we began the Prabhupada marathon on the first of December, so Svavasa Prabhu has been encouraging us to increase our sankirtana. At the same time several of our brahmins are sick and a few are visiting India, so our pujari department...
read moreMarathon Book Distribution Nectar
Books that No one wants Avtar Lila Dasa, a devotee in BT, regularly goes out for book distribution. He recalls an interesting event that took place recently: I was distribution books in the local train, when a man who initially seemed disinterested, suddenly called me. "See I am a housing financer," he said. "You seem to be well-educated, isn't it?" "Yes, sir you are right," Avtar Lila replied. "I am a post graduate engineer." "Oh, wonderful," the man was surprised. "But how come you...
read moreWhen The Books Talk by Murari Gupta Dasa
Although in his fifties, Rajahamsa Dasa, a member of Bhaktivedanta Institute, Mumbai and Berkley, regularly goes out to di stribute Srila Prabhupada's books. This August, I saw him at ISKCON Belgaum. He would pick up books at 2 pm, load them on the carrier of a bicycle, and ride to the local railway station . There he would board the train and distribute books till the next main station and then return via another train to the temple at 8:30 pm or later. If the train was late he would join his partner in doing harinama on the platform and...
read moreThe Prabhupada Marathon
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The annual Prabhupada Marathon is here again, this is a great opportunity to spread the glories of Sri Krsna and His dear devotee Srila Prabhupada. Sankirtana is the Yuga Dharama and brings good fortune to all. There is no doubt about it. The performance of Sankirtana is the panacea for all the problems of the world. All our earthly problems are due to ignorance of our eternal spiritual nature. Sankirtana, the group chanting of Krsna's holy names is so...
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