Innocence of heart in buying books
We went door to door preaching. We started with an apartment and knocked on the door. A lady opened it. We introduced ourselves, and she allowed us to come inside. Trying to be friendly, we asked her well-being and slowly started showing her Srila Prabhupada's books. As we took books out, she started grabbing them one after another, turning their pages. Within five minutes she selected eleven books. After inviting her to the...
Success for Fylgessio and a pleasant surprise
I was in Papatoetoe (a quiet south Auckland suburb), talking to a Fijian Indian gentleman, who agreed to buy the Gita and went into the post office to get some money. As I was waiting for him to come back, a car suddenly pulls over to the side of the road, and an African boy comes running over to me, exclaiming "I need to speak to a monk- to ask some questions. Can I take your number? And can we meet sometime?" I gave him my...
Animal killing means “no justice”
It was in a small Australian country town. My first impression was that it was a health-food shop: So and So Natural Foods. The sign in green and white conveyed freshness and lightness. Once inside, I saw that it was in fact a butcher’s shop. Some clever butchers “go with the flow” and advertise with slogans such as “chemical free,” etc. I made my standard presentation, during which the fairly young...
Devotees don’t do wonders, but wonders happen around them
Hare Krsna, Recently, we had a day full of wonders. It was cloudy, but by Lord Krishna's grace the rain stopped. Taking it as the Lord's will, we packed books and made a move to distribute books. We planned to go to a marketplace. But we were just a few steps away from the temple when it started raining again, getting heavy within a few seconds. What to do now? We were already out, and for Srila Prabhupada's sake we did...
A BTG helped build a temple
In the 1980s, devotees procured ten acres in the greater Vancouver area on which to build a temple for Sri Sri Radha-Madanamohan. We didn't have a lot of laxmi, but lots of enthusiastic book distribution was going on. A German gentleman, who had a heavy equipment business, was quite successful, but he had a heart condition. So his wife decided to have an affair with a man who was a lawyer. They acquired a Taser, with which they...
BTG’s hold on an avid reader
A few years ago, I ran a samosa booth at the annual Vancouver Folk Festival. Customers who purchased samosas would receive a small book with each purchase. A middle-aged woman was very friendly and inquired whether we were the Krishnas. I confirmed that we were, and she responded by saying that when she was a teenager she was playing in the rain in her driveway when she came upon a Back to Godhead magazine lying discarded on the...
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