A happy day
Hare Krsna, On March 13th I attended the sannyasa initiation of Uttama-sloka Prabhu, whose new name is Bhakti Rasayana Sagara Swami. Later, while we were waiting for prasada, a devotee sat next to me and asked whether my name is Vijaya. We talked for a while, and then he said, "Can I tell you of an interesting thing that happened to a friend of mine. He works in New Delhi, and every day he sells a Bhagavad-gita in the train on...
50 Books For the 50th Anniversary: A Follow-Up Memo
Hare Krsna, I have a few comments to make on the ten guidelines complied by Divyasimha for ISKCON's 50/50 campaign. 1. The "How to" which you have prescribed is very good for those wishing to do the street in the traditional ISKCON way. The challenge is how to engage the maybe 80% of congregation and ex-ashram members who are not on that level of sadana or maybe none at all! Otherwise we run the risk of making sankitana...
The Mysterious Hand of Krsna
Last week I was distributing books at Moor Park College, close to Los Angeles, when a couple of curious students came to my table. I showed them the books, and they looked really impressed by what they heard, and saw in the illustrations. But when I asked if they would give a donation and take the books, they declined. I wished them a nice day and thanked them for giving me their time. Two days later I was in San Fransisco...
Malawi Mellows – A Beer in Right Hand and a Bhagavad Gita in the Left
A Sankirtan Report form Malawi Blantyre, one of the major cities of Malawi in Africa has a population of approximately 800,000 people of which 400 are of Indian origin. Malawi is one of five poorest countries of the world. Two years ago, Murari Das from Tanzania, on the order of his guru HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami started preaching and distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books in Blantyre to people of both the African and Indian...
Big news from the Far East/Middle East division of the BBT
Hare Krsna, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! In a historical first for all BBT divisions worldwide, we are extremely excited to be offering for sale, beginning this month, the first nine (of an eventual thirty-six) very specially designed foreign language titles produced by the Far East/Middle East division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (www.bbtfeme.com). Several years in the making, the cover...
Friendship beyond this world
I was walking up Bloor Street when I met two guys. I thought they would never stop, but interestingly they did, and I started to talk to them about The Perfection of Yoga. Even then I didn't realize how sincere these two were. One of them wanted to know more about mantras. I asked him how he knew about this, and he said that he was in jail and started to 'like his mind' and other inmates told him about mantras. I'd...
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