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Changing Minds and Hearts 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. Follow the Leader In Lithuania we went to a construction site to distribute books. We found five Russian workers in a hut, preparing for lunch. "Hello, I have something for you," I said. Experience told me I had only a small chance of success. They seemed to be waiting for someone else. Still, I put my set of books on their small table. But under the weight, their lunches...
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Navina Nirada Dasa HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness through books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. Big Change for a Big Woman Another devotee and I and were distributing books in Lithuanian villages. In Darbenai, one of the larger villages, I was going to homes that were not much more than huts. I wondered how people could survive in such places. Hardly anyone was interested in the books. Krsna finally brought me to a big house with several good cars in the driveway. I met the...
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HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving them books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. Death Wish Stopped Once I was distributing Srila Prabhupada's books in a small city in Belgium, and I met a woman who listened very emotionally as I showed her a book. She told me she didn't need the book, because she had just bought some pills in the pharmacy (she showed them to me) and was on her way home to take them all at once and end her life. Shocked, I asked her why. She said...
read moreExpressions of Gratitude by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa IN TODAY'S MATERIALISTIC world, to interest people in Krsna consciousness is difficult. Devotees who perform the spiritual service of offering others books about Krsna often meet with rejection and indifference. When a guest once asked Srila Prabhupada how his disciples dealt with such negativity, he replied that they were not fickle; they could persevere because they understood the ultimate value of their work. Fortunately, devotees often see the results of their work, such as when they receive letters of thanks or...
read moreSomething Worth Hearing by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving them books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. I start with an experience of my own. While distributing books recently I met a young man very interested in Krsna consciousness. As we were speaking, he put in hearing aids to understand me. He told me that when he was a child his parents quarreled so much he wanted to lose his hearing, and after a few months he lost ninety percent of it. The doctors had no idea how it...
read moreThe Greatest Gift at Any Age by Udayananda Dasa
Udayananda Dasa IN JANUARY last year a woman in her early seventies came into my art shop at the local shopping mall. She bought several paintings for her home and while I framed them we talked. She told me her name is Harriet Barret, she is the mother of three children and the grandmother of seven, and she had been married for thirty-six years before her husband passed away in 1984. Somehow we got to the subject of reincarnation. When Harriet mentioned that she believed in reincarnation, I replied, "It's not a question of belief but...
read moreBooks Are the Basis by Navina Nirada Dasa
In this column we present the experiences and realizations of devotees who give Krsna consciousness to others by giving them Srila Prabhupada's books and other books on Krsna consciousness. The editors FOR MANY Hare Krsna devotees the most important activity is giving people spiritual knowledge. Without spiritual knowledge human life is incomplete. The most profound spiritual knowledge is found in the Vedas. Srila Prabhupada considered it his most important activity to translate into English the essence of Vedic knowledge. To spread...
read moreBlessed Granny by Sivarama Swami
In this new column we'll present the experiences and realizations of devotees who give Krsna consciousness to others by giving them Srila Prabhupada's books and other books on Krsna consciousness. The following is reprinted from last year's Vyasa Puja book, a collection of letters written in praise of Srila Prabhupada in observance of his appearance day. Ed. DEAR SRILA PRABHUPADA Please accept my humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to you on the celebration of your appearance day. While planning a...
read moreEager to Read About Krsna
Letters to the Moscow branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Every year, through the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust some 200,000 people buy a book of Vedic literature in Russian. And every day the Trust's office in Moscow receives letters of appreciation from people whose spiritual yearnings have long been repressed. Here we present a sample of those letters. THE BOOKS PUBLISHED by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust changed my attitude towards life completely. Lord Krsna is really present in these books, and the instructions given by His Divine Grace...
read moreOne Book In Bengali by Maha-Visnu Swami
This past February during ISKCON's annual walking pilgrimage in Navadvipa, West Bengal, a BTG photographer snapped a special encounter. Maha-Visnu Swami, the ISKCON devotee in the pictures, tells the story. ALMOST A THOUSAND devotees were walking together that morning junior and senior, men and women, young and old. We came to the place known as "Naimisaranya," where it is said that the Srimad-Bhagavatam was first spoken. In previous years we had never visited there and so I was excited. I knew that if we performed...
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