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Lee Love
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are two stories from the previous Fridays, the 12th, encounters While out with Bhakta (Rupa) Richard of Denver we were talking about increasing the amount of donations that we would accept from the donators. So the amount of 50$ US was thrown out and we went from the van to the parking lots here in Missouri for a shot at it. As it turned out one very tall and hard to miss dark skinned man came out of a cafe only to find the me waiting for him at his...
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I was reading the Srimad Bhagavatam and came across this very nice purport: Great personalities of the material world are very eager to render welfare service to human society, but actually no one can render better service than one who distributes the knowledge of spiritual realization in relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All living entities are within the clutches of the illusory energy. Forgetting their real identity, they hover in material existence, transmigrating from one body to another in search of a peaceful life....
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Dear Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. In Terminal One, LA Airport, today, I was moving around, looking for prospective customers to take Srila Prabhupada's books, when I noticed a group of young men hanging around casually and appearing like prime candidates for some mercy. So I approached them, but was pointed in the direction of one young lady amongst them, who seemed to be some sort of manager or spokesperson. She was lively and intersted as I hit her up, handing her a copy of Science of...
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VANCA KALPA… INTELLIGENT PEOPLE SHOULD HELP By Nitika Thapar Hare Krishna! Please accept our humble obeisances. Our last Sastra Dana meeting was held at the New Dvaraka temple on the Holy Appearance Day of Sri-Rukmini Devi and was well attended. The evening started with bhajans glorifying Lord Krishna, and was followed by a brief talk by Dravida Dasa, one of the oldest and most scholarly disciples of Srila Prabhupada. Prabhu stressed the importance of book distribution via donations of "sastra" to the suffering souls in order...
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ON MY WAY TO JOIN THE TEMPLE Narrated by Sarabha das, written by Mahat-tattva das Until the age of 18 or 19 I was like everyone else – occupied with attempts to turn my materialistic dreams into reality: good job, big car, house, another house, apartment, beautiful wife, even more beautiful mistress, and lots of reddish-cheeked children. Everything was like that until one day, even now I don’t know why and how, I suddenly got a completely different vision of that dream—the realistic one. Family fights I didn’t see any...
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LETTERS Vamsi Prabhu (Tomas Haroutunian) is a house holder whose family is a staunch supporter of the Sastra Dana program. Vamsi Prabhu’s family is one of those who would like to see Srila Prabhupada’s books distributed all over the world in profuse quantities, replacing all mundane literature. Although they are busy with their family obligations, they take advantage of every situation to grace someone by giving him one of Srila Prabhupada’s books. The following is a short letter sent to us by Vamsi Prabhu. Herewith I would...
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from www.timesofindia.com S.K. Jain is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Maharaj… Bryan Adams offers mangoes to soothsayer By Sangeetha Cavale BANGALORE: Real life can be stranger than fiction and dreams are the stuff that life is made of. And sometimes, those dreams come true. Astrologer S K Jain got a call on Saturday from Dubai-based event organiser Padma Coram, saying that Bryan Adams wanted to call on him. Next morning at 10, Bryan Adams arrived at the Jain's residence on Wheeler Road in a hired Tata Sumo taxi, mangoes in...
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Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. On our morning walk today, Brighupati Prabhu started in fits of laughter. We enquired as to what the fun was and he related a pastime he had yesterday at LAX. Prabhu was in his favourite spot, Terminal Six, and was hitting up a basketball player. The guy was unable to offer a donation for a hardback, so Brighupati Prabhu offered to swap it for a paperback. He agreed so Brighupati went to get one for him from his stash of books, kept behind a bank of monitors...
read moreExcerpt from a Marathon Class by H.H Bhakti Caru Swami
Excerpt from a lecture by H.H Bhakti Caru Swami on 13th December 1987,in Radhadesh, Belgium. We should try our best to distribute these books. However, just to distribute a book to someone is not enough. They also need to be inspired to read them, and for this it is very important that our dealings and personal behavior be exemplary. (…) People have to respect us in order to respect our philosophy. it is most important to remember that while we are preaching, we must make people realize that we care for them. (…) People are not...
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Hare Krsna Prabhu's, I don't think there's another temple in the world that has the facilities for book distribution like that of London. You walk out of the temple make a left, walk one minute and there's tens of thousands of people walking up and down Oxford Street. Due to the compassion of the sankirtan devotees many of these souls are receiving the mercy of Lord Caitanya. There's twelve devotees that go to Oxford st and other areas around London every day making the London Yatra last month number two in the world for...
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