There are No Material Impediments To Book Distribution…….
Mar14

There are No Material Impediments To Book Distribution…….

I want to acknowledge an amazing feat of faith, surrender and dedication. Srila Prabhupada's warrior, Adhoksaja Prabhu, born in Russia, has been living and preaching in Germany for quite some time. He has almost completely lost his sight. He has only 20% vision in one eye, while the other is blind. In a such a state, most people become dependant on others and angry at God. But he took it upon himself to go out during the...

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Disappointment Gives Rise To The Highest Pleasure & “This is My Request”
Mar01

Disappointment Gives Rise To The Highest Pleasure & “This is My Request”

Once I was distributing books at Chicago's O'Hare airport. A young, adventurous couple was carrying huge backpacks, and they kept running back and forth to the ticket counter. It turns out they had missed their international flight; their long-awaited vacation now appeared to be totally cancelled. Agonizing and trying to comfort each other, they were beyond depressed. I approached them and told them that this book explains how...

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Blissful “Arabian Nights”
Feb27

Blissful “Arabian Nights”

As part of the marathon season, devotees went *door to door* for a couple of weeks to distribute books. Today was a special and historic day for the Toronto Sankirtan Warriors. We visited an apartment at Kipling & Finch last week, where there were many Arabic-speaking members of a household who did not understand English. Unfortunately, we did not carry any Arabic books. So this week we packed Arabic books, but only to run out of...

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Book Distribution on India’s Trains
Feb16

Book Distribution on India’s Trains

“If one can please a pure devotee of the Lord, such action means immediate satisfaction of the Lord, even though such a person is not officially qualified to receive the mercy of the Lord.” (Srila Prabhupada's letter to Yeager, Dec. 20, 1970) By our book distribution, the super-pure devotee Srila Prabhupada is pleased, and the Lord's mercy touches us even if we are not officially qualified to receive it. There are...

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Ukraine Sankirtana Wins the War
Feb06

Ukraine Sankirtana Wins the War

This year the Prabhupada December Marathon in Ukraine was quite unusual with people really damaged by the news of the war on the eastern side of the country. There were various series of drafts of many thousands to the army, there was mourning for war victims and acts of terrorism. It was doubly unusual, because due to the war the whole country suffered from heavy depression with the local currency rate...

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Easy, if we remember Lord Caitanya
Jan13

Easy, if we remember Lord Caitanya

Recently, I read an article on book distribution and came across an amazing verse. It mentions how even difficult things become easy if we remember Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I was deeply touched by the verse (Cc. Adi 14.1). So on the following Sunday I went out for book distribution to the homes of Baroda (Gujarat, India). For one and a half hours there was no positive response, and I was...

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