Books for the “Yogis”
NORTH AMERICAN BBT NEWSLETTER On the subject of new markets for distributing Srila Prabhupada's books, the Sastra Dana program in conjunction with the “Temple Bhajan Band” has found a very lucrative audience for Srila Prabhupada's books. While the “Temple Bhajan Band” goes to the Yoga Studios to perform kirtan and distribute prasadam, the devotees have made good friends with the owners and managers of...
Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
Delhi 13th March, 1964 AN APPEAL TO THE VAISHNAVA SECT AND SPECIALLY TO THE VALLABHA SAMPRADAYA OF BOMBAY AND GUJARAT. SRIMAD BHAGAWATAM is very dear to all Vaishnavites and especially to the Vallabha and the Gaudiya Vaishnavas. The glories of Vrindaban and Mathura are magnified by these two Sampradayas, and the undersigned, as an humble servant of all Vaishnavas, has tried his best to render it into elaborate English version for its...
Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
SRILA PRABHUPADA UVACA: This transcendental achievement is so greatly valuable that no material happiness can compare to it. Prabhodhananda Sarasvati said that if one achieves the grace of Lord Caitanya he becomes so great that he does not care a fig even for the demigods, he thinks of monism as hellish, and for him the perfection of controlling the senses is as easy as anything. Heavenly pleasures become to him no more than stories....
From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter
SRILA PRABHUPADA UVACA: [Lord Caitanya said,] “The conditioned soul cannot revive his Krishna consciousness by his own effort. But out of causeless mercy, Lord Krishna compiled the Vedic literature and its supplements, the Puranas. The forgetful conditioned soul is educated by Krishna through the Vedic literatures, the realized spiritual master and the Supersoul. … In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his...
From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
I would like to congratulate the devotees of New Dvaraka for effectively organizing the Sastra Dana program, which engages members of the Vaishnava community in helping to distribute transcendental literature, especially the books of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. As Srila Prabhupada's movement matures into a "normal" society with people of all ages and backgrounds, it is vital that Srila Prabhupada's society, as...
Excerpt from the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter
Oh, your intense love for me. I am living for you. All over the world everything is going on. Money is coming and being spent. And I don’t have to worry. I am so much indebted. And I am taking much service from you all. That is a brhad-mrdanga; I am beating from my room and the sound goes ten thousand miles away. (Quotation 28 in Just As I Have Shown You (Mayapur, 1986)) Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at...
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