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Sastra Dana in Split, Croatia
Dear devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are some Sastra Dana activities from Split area. On 4th and 5th of this month devotees organized in city a seminar on Ayurveda with 86 participants attending. Seminar was delivered by Srutisagara Prabhu from Zagreb. Among ayurvedic topics he also preached Bhagavata philosophy and made people attracted to Vedic style of life. Many people who came on the seminar were mostly karmis (mainly the professors, doctors, lawyers and others from upper...
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Hare Krishna! Pamho. AgtSP! Here are some news from Rijeka: "Few adys ago I was in Central City Library in Rijeka where we before gave a few sets of Srila Prabhupada's books and on the shelves there were only one Bhagavad-gita, one Life come from life and one The Perfection of Yoga. All other books were borrowed to the readers of the library. And these books that were on the book shelves were covered with a sticking ribbon because of often use they were damaged. The pages were yelowish and there were a signs that the books were a lot...
read moreThe Doctor Gets the Mercy
I recently heard from a devotee how he came to Krsna consciousness, it's kind of interesting so I thought I'd share it. This person was in medical school when he found a "raja vidya" that his brother had recieved from a devotee. From reading raja vidya he decided he needed to read the Bhagavad Gita, which he found in the university library, he read it and found it interesting but not enough to give up his medical career and join the Krsna's. Then a few months later he found the Srimad Bhagavatam in the library, so he...
read moreBhakta Mathew
Here is a story of how, once again, Srila Prabhupada's books make devotees: One Bhakta Mathew from California was in England several years ago. He saw devotees doing Harinama and was amazed; he had never seen devotees before. After speaking to them a little, they sold him Science of Self Realization. One year later, as he was shopping on Haight Ashbury street in San Fransisco with his girlfriend Eileen, he saw a young man walking with a copy of Science of Self Realization. He asked him "where did you get this book!?" The man...
read moreBook Distributors are needed in Japan. by Kavicandra Swami
Book Distributors are needed in Japan. We have Gita Govinda devi, who has been one of the top mataji distributors in the world for 18 years. She needs a traveling sankirtan partner or two. We have many books in print and unlimited conditional souls just waiting to meet devotees. We also have Radhika Raman das Brahmacari, who is always among the top distributors. This is a great opportunity for any book distributor who wants experience new levels of intensity and variety in Sankirtan. Anyone who is interested in this missionary activity please...
read moreThe Change in the Heart, by Ekatma Das Finland
The below is a beautiful demonstration as to why we keep on passing out these wonderful books; the real nutrition for the heart of a preacher. The below is also an indication of the fact that we need to take exellent care of these wonderful spirit souls whom we have brought to the bright daylight of Krishna consciousness from the dense darkness of the age of Kali. Hello and Hare Rama. My name is Luka and I am from Slovenija. I'm not sure if you remember 3 girls when you were in Praha last year. They bought a book from you (Sri...
read moreIso Strikes Again, Devakinandana Das Australia
I was distributing on the same street that I've been writing about for the last three months in Brisbane, Australia. One Fat Asian student got an Isopanisad from me and I invited him to the Sunday Feast. I'm leaving for the Holy Dham in a week So I couldn't make it to the feast, but a devotee who attended told me he was there. He said," That American Guy was so kind, I didn't even have any Money, but he gave the book to me anyway. I've been reading it everynight and now all I want to do is learn the Bhakti Yoga. The...
read moreMarathon lecture by H.H Devamrita Swami part 1
Los Angeles December 15th 1999 Book distribution is the distribution of Lord Caitanya’s Sankirtana movement in the modern day. We should not have any doubts about it. This Christmas marathon is a chance given by Krsna how we can increase our service. Now, it is not endless. There is a certain amount of time and during those certain days you can focus on Srila Prabhupada’s mission, Lord Caitanya’s mercy and in this way you get bring your Vaisnava consciousness to a higher level. How is that possible? Because you have the...
read moreFrom the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
INTERVIEW WITH SVAVASA PRABHU (you don't wanna miss this one) Sastra Dana: What is the importance of book distribution today in this age as compared to the preaching of Lord Krishna's glories strictly in the form of harinam 500 years ago? Svavasa Prabhu: I don't think there is any difference, Prabhupada called book distribution "brhad mrdanga" – the greater mrdanga. The example of that is that if you do kirtana or harinam, you can hear that, maybe for a half a block, but if you actually give someone a book, that...
read moreFrom the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
SASTRA DANA AT THE UNIVERSITI OF CALIFORNIA AT THE IRVINE I recently had the opportunity to witness this glorious Sastra Dana program in action at the University of California at Irvine. As we were walking to the classroom the two prabhus, Arcita das and Mahat-tattva das, ahead of me were caring full boxes of books. I was considering what a labor of love this was. Those boxes were heavy! While Arcita das addressed college students on the science of Krishna consciousness, Mahat-tattva das handed out a variety of Srila Prabhupada’s books....
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