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Lord Yaksa gets the Mercy
by Jiva Doya Prabhu from the Bhaktivadanta Manor in England I was distributing in South England, a small town. I approached a young couple that was not doing to well materially. She was crippled and almost blind, and his eyes were not functioning properly, he had these big thick glasses, and he was also a bit crippled. So I asked them if they had heard of the, "Lord of the Rings". They said they had. I never saw the movie but I knew that it was filled with all sorts of demons, wizards, mystic powers, and miracles. I told them that...
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Spoken by Ambarish das from Russia There is one ayurvedic doctor in Ukraine that also distributes books. He goes to a university and tells the administrators that he is going to give some lectures on ayurveda. He tells them, "Not only your bodily health should be good but your spiritual health is also important, most important. He distributes many sets throughout the country. In Russia no one can go to a school and preach about religion so I avoid the universities. But this doctor also used to teach at the universities so he knows how to...
read moreLord Ramacandra’s favor
TRANSLATION Sukadeva Goswami replied: After accepting the throne of the government by the fervent request of His younger brother Bharata, Lord Ramacandra ordered His younger brothers to go out and conquer the entire world, while He personally remained in the capital to give audience to all the citizens and residents of the palace and supervise the governmental affairs with His other assistants. PURPORT The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow any of His devotees or assistants to be engaged in sense gratification. The younger brothers...
read moreBook Distribution in the wild wild west
I just heard this story from Radha Kund Prabhu. This is from 1971 in St Luis Missouri USA. He was distributing in a parking lot when he approached a big man that was getting ready to enter his car. He asked the man where he was from. The man said he was from Texas. It turns out that this man had just returned from Vietnam where he had been fighting in the war. Radha Kund handed him a Krsna book and explained a few things about the book. Then the man pulled out a gun pointed it at his head and said "If this book doesn't have Jesus...
read more“Everyone is doing his best”
The GBC member means they will see that in every temple these books are very thoroughly being read and discussed and understood and applied in practical life. That is wanted, not to see the vouchers only, “How many books you have sold, and how many books are in the stock?” That is secondary. You may keep vouchers… If one is engaged in KŠa’s service, there is no need of vouchers. That is… Everyone is doing his best. That’s all. So we have to see that things are going on very nicely. So in that way...
read moreTirupati: A Beacon for the Rest of the World
When I was in Mayapura the devotees of Tirupati asked me to visit their Temple. For the past few years I have seen the Tirupati Temple go very high on the charts in the book distribution world newsletter. After being there a few days I could see why they have so much success. The temple president, Revati Raman Prabhu, is very enthusiastic to distribute books and this is the main activity at this temple. Twenty five devotees go out on book distribution every day, they have a traveling sankirtan party, they set up a table at the Balaji Temple,...
read moreAisvaya das in Taiwon – Book Distribution 101
So I'm in Taiwan and I enter one pharmacist shop. The trouble is that I have all these preconceived ideas that I've been in this area of Taiwan before and nobody will want more books. And these fears have been magnified by a few people already confirming just that. But I have resigned to the fact that I may as well do the duty and try to understand Bhagavan Sri Krsna's in control. What else am I going to do? It's funny because even though the pharmacist in the store is talking to a customer, he sees me enter dressed in my...
read moreHarinam and Book Distribution, the right and left hand of ISKCON
On the last morning of the festival after mangal aroti Hari Sauri Prabhu introduced everyone to the main person who manages the Mayapur festival, his holiness Bhakti Purusotama Swami, a disciple of Jayapataka Swami. He recived a loud round of applause. One addition to the Mayapura festival is a harinam in Kolcutta the day after Gaura Purnima. This year they decided to start it at the birth place of Srila Prabhupada. I had never been to his birth place so I was really looking forward to it. As we were driving to the house in a bus I turned to...
read moreThe Vrndavana Book Distribution Seminars
By Bhrgupati Prabhu There is a sentence in the Bhagavad Gita that is very inspiring to me whenever I read it, it goes as follows: When Krsna wants to do something, simply by His willing everything is performed so perfectly that one cannot imagine how it is being done". Sometimes we want to perform some service such as distributing books and it may be difficult but if we are sincere then Krsna will help in an amazing way, as book disstributors experience all the time. We could take a picture of all the devotees that are distributing books...
read moreMayapura festival Book Distribution Seminar by Manidhara Prabhu
Here's some of Manidhara's seminar: When I saw Prabhupada my dreams were over to enjoy this world. It's time to get real. So I joined the movement and within a couple of days I was on the street distributing books. In Kali yuga there are no sruti dharas, whatever they hear it goes in one ear and out the other. Therefore we need books, and we have the best books these books can purify anyone who takes to reading them. Sankirtan helps us come to the point of why we came to the Krsna consciousness movement: To become a devotee, and...
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