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Marathons in Germany
Marathon in by Sadbhuja Dasa This was my second Prabhupada marathon in Germany, and I have my own van, which I share with two other devotees. During this Marathon I was distributing around sixty-five books a day. My senior devotee, Varaha Prabhu, put together a tour for me. One day he called and asked where I will be distributing the next day, and I told him the name of the city. He said in an encouraging way, "Oh, that's a very good city; if You don't distribute a hundred books there, then you are in maya!" I was really...
read moreBook Distribution by the Congregation
By Vijaya das Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was recently asked by my Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to go to Silicon Valley (near San Francisco) to see how Vaisesika Prabhu has stimulated an explosion of book distribution there. Svavas Prabhu was hoping I could learn how to duplicate their success in New Dvaraka. I was quite impressed, to say the least. One weekend a month, all the devotees in the congregation go out to distribute books. During the month I visited they went out a...
read moreFinal Results for Bhaktivinoda Thakura MSF of June 2008
Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was recently asked by my Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to go to Silicon Valley (near San Francisco) to see how Vaisesika Prabhu has stimulated an explosion of book distribution amongst the congregation there. Svavas Prabhu was hoping I could learn how to duplicate their success in New Dvaraka. I was quite impressed, to say the least. One weekend a month, all the devotees in the congregation go out to distribute books. During the month I visited they went...
read moreBook Distribution in Book Fair, Surat(India)
Hare Krsna, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, In the first week of February'08, a book fair was held in Surat, where we congregational devotees also put a book stall of books of Srila Prabhupada. It is really rejoicing to say that in the 80 hours that the fair lasted, we were able to sell approximately 4000 books, that is every 1.20 minutes we sold one of Srila Prabhupada's books. That was all possible due to the grace of Srila Prabhupada and the Vaishnava acharyas. Two months back in the BG marathon we received some Bhagavad...
read moreA Free Man
I was at Newyork Airport, in New Jersey, selling books alone in 1987. I was having a bad afternoon. About 5.30 P.M. it was difficult to even stop people. I started to become a little desperate, because for twenty minutes I could not stop one single person. Then I started to pray to Krishna to help me (it works every time). One Indian man come out of nowhere and walked right toward me at a very slow pace, though the other people around us were going very fast. I showed him the large Gita and said: Bhagavad-gita! He answered loud and clear: How...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 8
Dedicated to Srila Prabhupada and all the Vaisnavas Not Only Cleaning Clothes Whereever I go, I try to bring some books to place in a library or a recreation center, etc. On one mission we had to pick someone up at another base, and when we picked him up he reminded me that I had to retrieve some laundry I'd dropped off the last time I was there. So off we went. I walked in and gave my ticket, and the fellow behind the counter found my bag and had this huge grin. "Sir," he said, "does this bag belong to you?"...
read moreOne Day of Book Distribution on Melrose Avenue
Melrose Avenue is probably the most degraded Avenue in LA, but it is also the best place in LA to meet people receptive to Krsna consciousness. It was a hot June day, so I found a place in the shade. To my surprise, the store I was working in front of was called "Maya." I looked into the window and saw it was a gift store. I saw some pictures of Siva and Ganesh, and sure enough there was one of Maya Devi herself. Before people would "go into Maya" I would distribute a book to them, and when they came "out of...
read moreShop to Shop Sankirtana
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! This last weekend Bhrgupati Prabhu and I went to the San Francisco area of California to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. The first day we went to downtown Santa Cruz. At first I was a little bit skeptical, I had never gone shop to shop before. I went into the first shop with Bhrgupati to watch how he did it. He approached the people the same as he would anywhere else, but he would approach the manager or owner first, then the employees, then the...
read moreAttention Book Distributors to be!
By Danavir Goswami If you would like to be personally trained by one of ISKCON’s best book distributors, here is the opportunity of a lifetime. Paramesvara dasa Brahmacari (placed first in USA distribution 2006 and 2007) has happily agreed to share his realizations and association with those wishing to learn the art. He will be available starting August 20, 2008 for two types of training programs: Program 1: Traveling sankirtan book distribution. Trainees will travel in the van with Paramesvara Prabhu and go out with him daily. Program...
read moreNice End for a Heavy Day
Please accept our humble obeisances, Jaya Srila Prabhupada! On our Sri Narasimha marathon we were traveling in central and eastern Finland, in areas called Savo and Karjala. Different flavors of tamo-guna, mixed with a pinch of rajo-guna. Savo especially has a reputation for being a heavy place for distribution. One day we were in Kuopio, the main city of Savo. The fact that I needed to drive our car back and forth to the repair shop didn’t make things easier. We had a 250km drive in the evening, so we had to stop a little early. I...
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