Sooo greedy to distribute books
May23

Sooo greedy to distribute books

My sankirtan spot is right outside Crossways and Urban Yoga (our Hare Krishna restaurant and preaching center) on the main street of Melbourne. I stopped a boy, Shannon, who was attracted to the Bhagavad-gita. He decided to take the book and explained that he thinks young people don't realize they can die at any moment. He had been in a car crash at the age of eight and given a 20% chance of surviving. So after that experience he...

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Krsna, they say You Distribute the Books
May20

Krsna, they say You Distribute the Books

*Sankirtan, Bosnia, during war time, 1994.* I had been trying to distribute a book for a whole day. I was exhausted, fried and lacking inspiration. I didn't know what to do. People were closing their doors in my face, throwing me out of their firms, shops… what a nice opportunity for purification! By Krsna's mercy I somehow remembered a sankirtan instruction: "Krsna distributes the books!" So I thought,...

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Krsna’s Mystical Hand at Work
May16

Krsna’s Mystical Hand at Work

Yesterday morning, a young couple visited the temple up on the hill here in Kalamunda, in Perth, Australia. I talked to them and showed them the Gita. I mentioned that the book explains all aspects of life, not least the types of food that are best to eat. I opened the book to find the reference, and by Krsna's mercy the verses were right there on the first page we turned to. We discussed for a while the benefits of a vegetarian...

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Sankirtan in Detroit, some of my first Sankirtan adventures
May14

Sankirtan in Detroit, some of my first Sankirtan adventures

It was my fortune that that I got a chance to spend the week of Gaura Purnima under the shelter of Srila Gurudeva Sankarshan Das Adhikari and Srimati Gurumataji Vishnupriya Devi Dasi in Austin, Texas. I was even more fortunate to have accompanied Srimati Gurumataji on book distribution, her enthusiasm was contagious and I had made up my mind that when I return to Detroit I will go on book distribution at least once a week. So when I...

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Don’t be Caught out Here without some of those Sweets
May08

Don’t be Caught out Here without some of those Sweets

Completely sweet. Reminds me of the time I was stopped by a policeman while distributing books in Daley Plaza in Chicago. He said "What's in the bag?" My heart rate went up and I thought I was going to be harassed and told to move on. Then this big burly cop asked "Got any of those sweets?" Turns out he had received some prasadam sweets at the Chicago Ratha yatra and had never forgotten the taste. I did have...

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A Message From Beyond
May06

A Message From Beyond

While we were in New Plymouth the other day to run a few errands, Syama-gauri and I thought we'd try selling a few Gitas to a small quasi-spiritual book store in town, which also specializes in crystals, magic potions, fairy statues and incense sticks. A few weeks back, Syama-gauri had by chance meet one of the staff who worked there, and mentioned in passing that we had the Bhagavad-gita and other books from the East, and the...

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