The potential for book distribution at funerals in India
Am I the first to discover the potential for book distribution at funerals in India? Diagonally across the street from my place, a few months ago a new family moved into what my (late) sociologist sister might have called lower to lower middle-class accommodations. In that time period, I noticed one of the family’s elder members becoming increasingly weak and once or twice being helped into an auto-rickshaw, obviously for a trip to...
The Gita reaches a man with another Gita
Mahananda Murari Prabhu was talking to people when he felt the good energy of Lucas and Manu, who passed by. He wished that he would have the opportunity to approach them later. So he was then happy when they reappeared in front of him. Wasting no time, he discovered that they are really nice. When he told them that he had seen them before, they responded, amusingly, “Really? Did we pass by you? Even though you’re so big...
Nice encounter at an outdoor table
On harinama in Porto Alegre, Manohara Saciputra Prabhu, the temple president, was called over by a lady named Cléia, to talk to her at her restaurant table. At that point in the harinama, he had run out of invitation cards and pamphlets with the temple’s new address, so Cléia asked him to write the address on paper. Manohara had just been chanting at the harinama, and he also had no books with him at the moment. She determinedly...
On their way home, back to Godhead
In the first photo: These people had read about Vedic culture in a book by a French scholar, so they receptively conversed with Bhakta Gustavo and purchased a set of books. In the second photo is Carol. She felt tired due to worrying about her own and her family’s futures in this difficult world. She found hope in the message she heard from Gustavo and trusted his recommendation to read some special books. In the third photo is...
Distribution on Radhastami
Mahananda Murari Prabhu met a friendly couple from Brasília in Curitiba. They are students of the world’s religions. He was once a Christian pastor, and at a certain point he realized that he should broaden his spiritual horizons. He began to welcome boooks from Eastern schools, as he did today, happily purchasing BBT books. Their photo is attached, and in another photo we have Neto and Emelin. They met devotees at other times...
Krishna is all-attractive, which attracts people to ISKCON
After a Food for Life program in Florianópolis, Bhakta Gustavo entered the temple and noticed two women outside, standing in front of the gate, looking inside at the temple room and the altar (visible from the street sidewalk). He invited them in, and their conversation culminated in them happily acquiring a Gita. (first picture) Carla and Paulo followed daily online classes and then finally visited us. They liked it so much that from...




