A book distribution report to Bhaktivinoda Thakura from ISV
Dear Bhakti Vinoda Thakura, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!! namo bhaktivinodaya sac-cid-ananda-namine gaura-sakti-svarupaya rupanuga-varaya te I offer my respectful obeisances unto Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda, who is transcendental energy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is a strict follower of the Gosvamis, headed by Srila Rupa. We are gathered here on the most auspicious occasion,...
Brazil’s congregational sankirtana – Sangita
The initiative Sangita (Congregational Sankirtana) started in 2012 in Belo Horizonte and then spread in Brazil. Currently, this initiative goes on in four cities (Belo Horizonte, Recife, Caruaru and Campina Grande). But we’ve had some version of the program in other cities: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Joao Pessoa. The results are interesting. I’m sharing some details about the program to show the strength that...
Kids go out
After the Vyasapuja, Advaita told me he was feeling sleepy and did not want to go on book distribution. I told him, "Sure, you can take rest. But do you know that today's book distribution is an offering to Vaisesika Prabhu for his vyasa-puja day?" He responded "Oh, then I will go." At ISV, kids are growing up watching offerings being made to Srila Prabhupada throughout the year, and I felt it certainly has...
A very unusual donation
What a great day for door-to-door sankirtana! One exchange really touched me. A young, beautiful teenage girl of Caribbean descent opened the door. When I asked to see her parents, she said that they weren't home. Then she asked why I was there. I showed her the books in my hand and asked her whether she'd heard of yoga. She looked at the books I had and wanted the one with the yogi on the picture (The Perfection of Yoga). I...
Chanting saved my life
Hare Krsna, Jagannath Mishra Prabhu and I happened to knock on a door, and a devotee named Meghnauth Baboo Ram opened the door. He looked surprised to see us holding up the Bhagavat-gita and other books. He said that he'd just finished reading the Gita and had placed the book on his altar when he heard us knocking. So we gave him the Krsna book. Jagannath Mishra wanted him to say the Hare Krishna maha-mantra along with us. Some...
A Receptive Soul
I met a lady, Natalia, who worked as a clinical psychologist at a health and well being centre in Adelaide, Australia. I showed her the Bhagvad Gita. She excitedly told me that she had recently heard about the book but could not remember the context in which she heard about it. I showed her the pictures and told her that we are not this body. Then I talked to her about the subtle body and explained the picture with the chariot and the...
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