Soccer Fans Join Brazilian Devotees in Chanting Amidst World Cup Fever
By: Madhava Smullen ISKCON News on July 11, 2014 Bhakti Narasimha Swami with a football fan in Sao Paulo Author’s note: The following article will refer throughout to “soccer” as football, as it known in Brazil and throughout most countries. Although World Cup host Brazil is still reeling from a 7 – 1 loss to Germany on Tuesday July 8th, football fever still grips the country as the World Cup barrels towards...
The power of prayer and it’s never too late
While we were trying to sell books for three hours in Nelore, house to house, nobody was ready to take even a single book. It was getting late in the evening, but still praying in our hearts to Srila Prabhupada, we were determined to try. We thought, "Let's try for five more minutes." Two people came. We showed them books, and they took fifty-three books. Our hearts filled with gratitude to Srila Prabhupada, we left for...
The power of the holy name
While talking to a doctor during book distribution in Nelore, I saw a man standing a little distance away. After giving nine books to the doctor, I approached the man. His friend said, "No, no!" before I could even open my mouth to speak. I requested the first man to say Hare Krishna just once. That one-time Hare Krishna from his mouth led him to ask where I came from and what I was doing. Then, introducing myself, I started...
President of India Presented With Bhagavad Gita As It Is Deluxe Edition
HH Gopal Krishna Goswami met the honourable President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 12th June, 2014 at the President’s official residence in New Delhi and presented him the BBT’s deluxe edition of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is along with the maha-prasad of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi. Maharaj thanked the President for inaugurating ISKCON’s Pune center last year and invited him to inaugurate ISKCON...
Book distribution is Leipzig Germany
In Leipzig a devotee opened the a Govinda's after many years of there being none in the city. And inspired by devotees in Oslo, he made a rule that all devotees who distribute a book or go on a harinama can eat for free. Coming from a meeting with the Govinda's crew, I told this to the bhaktas on the traveling temple-bus – in jest, because Govinda's crew had invited us anyway, but Bhakta Andreas took it really...
On Ekadasi in Germany: Drinking the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Dear Fellow Book Distributors, Please accept my humble respects at your feet. All glories be to the uttama book distributor, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada! The Srimad Bhagavatam says (1.18.13): "The value of a moment's association with the devotee of the Lord cannot be compared to the heavenly planets or salvation,…" Last Ekadasi (late May) it so happened that we had been traveling for a...
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