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Sankirtan – very very Glorious
“One should not desire to be elevated even to a place in the heavenly planetary systems if it has no propaganda to expand the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no trace of VaiŠavas, pure devotees of the Lord, and no festivals for spreading Krsna consciousness. It would be better to live perpetually cramped within the airtight bag of a mother’s womb, where one can at least remember the lotus feet of the Lord, than to live in a place where there is no opportunity to remember His lotus feet. I pray not to be...
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Service Opportunity Book Distribution Minister Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It's been almost two years now since me and my family have settled down here in Switzerland near Zurich. I'm happy that my days of continous world travelling have come to a pause. The stable situation of the grihasta ashrama is allowing me to focus and reflect. Realisation: "Quit while you are ahead!" Well then I'm way passed my time. Being a Book Distributor for almost 18 years,...
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Dear Devotees in this wonderful BDS forum, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thanks to all of you for your kind and inspiring messages about distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. All glories to the Sankirtan Movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu! Could we have more Book Dist. Seminars around the world? We'd like to learn & practice how to distribute books nicely. The experienced book distributors could travel & teach their realizations, methods and successes to everyone? your servants,...
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Dear Vaisnavas, Vaisnavis, Friends, Brijbasis, Countymen Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! One could have a field day describing the finer subtleties of Santa Cruz. Not that it's that subtle! When i ask tourists what their first impressions of this Northern Californian town is they normally take a few seconds to think about it and then look at me with a puzzled look. To keep things short i normally help them along with the suggestion that it's "hippyville". They nod profusely. Not...
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Dear Devotees in this wonderful BDS forum, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thanks to all of you for your kind and inspiring messages about distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. All glories to the Sankirtan Movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu! Could we have more Book Dist. Seminars around the world? We'd like to learn & practice how to distribute books nicely. The experienced book distributors could travel & teach their realizations, methods and successes to everyone? your servants,...
read moreGet the Mercy!
Dear Prabhu's Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada wanted everyone in our society to learn the art of book distribution. Why did he stress this so much? Because he knew that these books will change people's hearts and bring them happiness, just as they have, millions of times. He said that even if someone touches a book he benefits, what to speak of reading it, appreciating it, or becoming a devotee. A devotee is para dukha dukhi: he dislikes seeing others suffer. While this world is a...
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From Brisbaner Australia: Parigraha is a brahmacary from the Northern European countries. He visited Oz some time ago. While standing in front of Govinda's in the city, he gave a soft cover Gita to a Mr Wong who is a general practitioner. Mr Wong gave Parigraha $20 and was on his way. A few weeks later, we received a letter from Mr Wong stating how he appreciated the book he received and he gave a donation "to further KC". Enclosed was a check for: $4,000. I wrote back to Mr Wong, thanking him, and Dhruva Prabhu went over to...
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In the year 2000 I was going to Chicago for sometime to Distribute books and I came across a few quotes from Srila Prabhupada where he said that Chicago was the best place in the world to Distribute his books. I was meditating on this in Mayapura during the festival when I met a devotee named Tranakarta Prahbu. He was a distributor in Chicago during the seventies when SKP there was bigger than ever. He is a big Italian Devotee who used to bounce demons around at Chicago OHare airport when they would disturb the SKP. He was also a big...
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ANONYMOUS By Mahat-tattva däs A few days ago we were in Santa Monica, 3rd Street Promenade where we usually go to perform harinama-sankirtana. That day as every other day we had our standard setup with four devotees sitting on the floor, one playing harmonium, one mridanga and two devotees playing caratalas. Little aside to our left was our book table where beside the books we sell tapes and CDs of our own bhajans. After two hours of dynamic and ecstatic bhajans we started packing our equipment to go back to New Dvaraka when bhaktin...
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Braja Bihari Prabhu the sankirtan leader of Radha Gopinatha Mandir in Chowpatti India has sent this sankitan lila: "We were euphoric and I hadn't realized I had not slept for two nights. We were swept away by the sales in one company. Touching an unprecedented high for our bus party. It was non-stop excitement for us, to say the least." With permission available for setting up book stalls in many companies, we overlooked a few 'small' ones, preferring to go all out at the bigger companies during the marathon. One such...
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