Hare Krsna Challange
While distributing books with the Weekend Warriors program in the Kingston section of London, I met a man of African nationality who was a little bit disheveled, with unkempt hair. He said, "I have your 'Bhagavad-gita As It Is.'" "That's great," I replied. "Have you read it?" "I'm in the process of reading it." So I showed him the "Veda" book, saying, "This is our...
Lord Balarama’s and Srila Prabhupada’s Mercy Flow
We were in Varna City, Bulgaria, on traveling sankirtan. It was Lord Balarama's appearance day. I decided to offer all the books I distributed that day to Lord Balarama for His pleasure. There wasn't so much time to distribute, though, because we had to do some cooking for the festival. I began to distribute around the camper that we travel in, and everything was very easy and blissful. For the past few years I've been...
Defeating the Illusory Energy
There is one young girl with a young child who has been visiting the temple in Los Angeles. However her boyfriend, the father to her child, did not like it. He ended up babysitting and making angry phone calls to her while she was trying to do service at the temple, (why are you leaving your child for so long? how could you do this? why do you like that Hare Krishna anyway?) He did not like the devotees. She is a generally a good...
That smells like Krishna
I had a short window of time for books the other day, so I went to Cuba St. It was an odd time of the day, but Krishna is in control so I thought that He could make the right people come by even at this time, even in this weather. Sure enough, I met some wonderful souls, but the last encounter was striking. This young man wears all black and has several piercings and tattoos. As he walked by, he was focused on filling his cigarette...
Madhumangala in South Africa
One Saturday, waiting in the car park with the devotees who were having a swim at the beach after a long harinam downtown, I approached a tattooed surfer guy loading his surf board onto the back of his truck. I introduced myself and told him that I was a travelling monk. "You're a monk, that right?" I told him that I was based in San Diego, where surfing is part of the local culture, and that he should there one day. We...
Book Distribution in Ukraine
Yesterday after a seminar I gave at the annual maha festival in Russia I asked if any of the Sankirtan devotees had any stories they would like to share, so one devotee told us of this incident: He was going door to door in one posh office complex in South Ukraine, when he went to one office he met a man that was very interested in reading the books. He was going through a change in his life, he wanted to know about God, and give up...
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