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Haribol Prabhus! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently, Niranjana Swami told me about an interesting person in Kiev, Ukraine. This person is an Orthodox Christian, but became attracted to Krsna consciousness after getting a book. He tried to live in the temple as brahmacari, but it was to foreign to him. So he went back to live in the Christian monastery, though still chanting sixteen rounds a day. Some years ago he decided that he wanted to visit India, so he started saving his money for the trip....
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October 14, 2002 Haribol, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here is one small book distribution story. Three of us from New Vrindavan had stopped off at a renaisance festival between Columbus, Oh and Cincinnati last weekend. As we were distributing from car to car during the incoming, I approached a really open minded looking young guy with his friends. I presented the Bhagavad Gita and started to explain, and they were really interested. Then I noticed their mother was there. I was thinking, oh no, she'll...
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While attending the Russian Vaisnava Festival I had the pleasure of meeting a devotee named Krishna Prema Dasa that goes back and forth across the Black Sea to do business in Turkey. Some months ago he was bringing in a trunk of Srimad Bhagavatams to distribute to the many people who speak Russian there. He had the books under other cargo and was hoping to slip by the Turkish authorities but was stopped by their customs agents. As the trunk was heavy they demanded to know the contents and he told them it was Korans. They broke open the trunk...
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…LILAS… "BUDDHIMANTA" MEMORIES Päëòava vijaya däs (USA) Buddhimanta had never met Srila Prabhupada and the president of the San Franscisco temple, Kesava das thought he should since he was the "biggest" book distributor at that time. They were all in Los Angeles and Buddhimanta had just come in from a day of distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. He had distributed about 100 small books at a store right near the temple. When he returned from sankirtan, Kesava said to Buddhimanta that...
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VANCA KALPA… ALL DECENT MEN By Mahat-tattva däs What follows is a summery of Dravida Prabhu’s talk delivered at the last Sastra Dana program on October 5th. Sastra Dana means giving charity of books. Srila Prabhupada was so successful because he was constantly giving. He didn’t come here to take but to give Krishna consciousness to as many as possible. Srila Prabhupada said that all DECENT men want to give service to humanity, but the only thing is they don’t know what that service is. Hospitals, feeding the poor,...
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BOY GEORGE By jïäna-cakñus däs (USA) The following story took place some time back but it can still be used. The day was Saturday and we were at the Plaza in Kansas City. As we approached one group of men, the thought came to mind that they were either drivers or passengers on some bus. Mostly because of the badges they had dangling around their necks. This is common for public transport bus riders in the U.S. to have their bus badges around their necks. After asking them if they were riding or driving the bus, they...
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DISTRIBUTOR OF THE WEEK LAGUNA BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY By Maureen Maher Dear Sastra Dana devotees, Sri Krishna is so kind to have made a nice arrangement for Laguna Beach Public Library to receive a selection of Srila Prabhupada’s books. Here is how it came about. On one beautiful sunny Friday afternoon in September, I headed down the hill to the library on my first attempt at offering the Sastra Dana program to the staff. A little anxiety struck: what if I embarrass Srila Prabhupada or the Sastra Dana devotees with some foolishness or...
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October 9, 2001 Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada's transcendental book distribution. I just wanted to share a nice experience we had in Athens, Ohio recently. My friend Mukunda Madhava and I were distributing books on the campus there, and I met one guy who was really interested and took a Quest for Enlightenment. He said he would pass it on to his friend, Luke. He told me that this friend of his had been trying to get him interested in Krsna consciosness. I was a little curious to find out more about his...
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…LETTERS… FROM LAGUNA BEACH Letter from Maureen Maher Dear Sastra Dana Prabhus, You don’t know how much it means to me to receive the Sastra Dana newsletter (especially when nice prasadam is enclosed). Being away from New Dvaraka all week is made so much easier with your inspiring publication arriving in the mail. Thank you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! BOOKS IN MEXICO Letter from Vamsi däsa’s family Haribol Mahat-tattva Prabhu. I just wanted to tell you that we distributed the books we got from you a couple...
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WHO ARE THEY DISTRIBUTOR OF THE WEEK By Mahat-tattva däs Svayambhuva Prabhu is coming from an Indian background, from Gujarat. He is an initiated disciple of His Holiness Hridayananda das Goswami. The initiation took place over 15 years ago, maybe even 20 years ago. He has been a resident at the New Dvaraka community for about 10 years. Prior to that he lived in Panama. Although he has a full time job, he helps Rabindranatha Prabhu (the head pujari in New Dvaraka) with Deity worship and he is the main assistant of Nirantara Prabhu (the...
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