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“I’ll be back!”
A presentation by Navina Nirada Dasa at the NE BBT symposium, South Germany on the 1.15.2000 Dear Devotees, I feel excited to be here and hear all these wonderful presentations and see all these documentations of Srila Prabhupadas present book production and distribution. I just came from Mayapur where we completed the Sankirtan Academy. In this Vaishnava Academy we will soon host the MIHE, Mayapur Institute of Higher Education. Over twenty-five teachers will give courses, some of them sastric, others like yoga or cooking. All of you are...
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Dear Navina Nirada prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your feet, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you from the core of my heart for all the services especially related to book distribution you have done in ISKCON. Your letter was quite open and frank but very encouraging. The society needs that now more than ever. I did not have the courage to write directly to the conference because I doubt anyone would care to hear from a devotee like myself who has distributed relatively few books in his devotional life (25...
read moreDood to Door
I was distributing in Auckland with a few Bhagavad Gita's, after an hour or so I ran out, we still had some SB 1.1.s, but I was lamenting a little because I'm pretty attached to Bhagavad Gita's. Bhakta Luke and myself went up to a door, a man answered, I told him we're monks, going around distributing these wonderful books about self realization and how to be satisfied and peaceful in life. He said he wasn't interested in taking a book but would like to give us a book. I said, alright, thinking we may be able to talk to...
read moreExcerpt From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter
A BOON TO PREACH Our activity is preaching. Yes, flood the whole world with the message of Mahaprabhu. We are gosthyanandis not bhajananandis. Bhakisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami has said, prana ache tanra sehetu pracara : “He has life therefore he is preaching.” His heart bleeds seeing the suffering of the jivas. So he goes out not caring anything for himself. Go out and preach! Inculcate Krishna consciousness onto them. Let their suffering be done away with forever. Yes, this is the heart of a sadhu. Then he accepts disciples and...
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I was distributing in Brisbane, Australia. I pulled over an alternative looking couple and gave them my spiel. They liked my sense of humor but said that they were Christians so they weren't interested. I showed them the Chapter on Christ and just asked for a donation and somehow or other they were inspired and they just threw in ten bucks. I was going to tell them more but they said that they were in a hurry for a doctor appointment for their unborn child. I asked them if it was a boy or a girl and whether they had picked out a name yet....
read moreAn Article for the Book Distribution Conference
Here's an article you can post on your conference, not from me, but as a contribution from Premanjana dasa, president of a center in Holland, who is traveling with Lokanath Swami in India. This is a newspaper article that appeared in The Times of India from Saturday 1-January-2000 about Gita Jayanti Celebrations. (Reporter: Parmarthi Raina) GITA JAYANTI CELEBRATIONS On December 19, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Noida celebrated Gita Jayanti, in commemoration of the day Bhagavan Sri Krishna recited...
read moreHelp from the Lord Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness through books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. Two Forms of the Lord One day in Prague in 1996 I was supposed to be distributing books, but I couldn't get up the nerve to approach anyone. After a while I became upset with myself. "How can you just sit here while these people walking by are searching for the very books you're holding in your hands? Do something!" At last I pulled myself together and showed a book to a young man...
read moreMercy Amid Mayhem Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
FOLLOWING ARE excerpts from the diary of Aisvarya Dasa. Based in San Diego, he travels throughout America with other devotees, distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. Saturday, June 13, 1998 Washington, D.C. We'd just come from New Vrindavan, so after the peace and serenity of farm life, my mind was having trouble coping with being thrown into this mayhem the Tibetan Freedom Concert, an outdoor rock concert at RFK Stadium. Then I remembered that in a short while Lord Jagannatha would be happily gliding down New York's Fifth Avenue...
read moreMercy in the Factories Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness through books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. Srila Prabhupada's Blessings I was distributing books in a factory and had just signed up one hundred workers to each take a set of books (fifteen books in each set). When I went to see the director for payment, he sent me to the chief accountant, but she refused to give me the money, saying she had nothing in the treasury. A few days later was the anniversary of Srila...
read moreIrresistible Attraction Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa HERE ARE SOME letters of appreciation from recipients of Srila Prabhupada's books: Ignited with the Fire Of Krsna Consciousness I want to thank you for being a critical part in my life. Without the distribution of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's books, I would never have been ignited with the fire of Krsna consciousness. My first contact with Krsna was at my friend's house. I saw the book The Science of Self Realization lying on the floor, and at that moment I felt an...
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