A Change of Heart
Colonel Pant lived diagonally opposite and one house up the street from me in South India for the past four years. Besides neighborhood concerns like the erratic water supply, the garbage disposal problem and so on, we would talk about Indian and world affairs and other things, with me injecting a little philosophy now and then. Several times he had brought me atta, canned cheese and other things that were issued to him and his family...
A Bus is Needed
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Recently, I was in Estonia, where there are fifteen brahmacaris completely enthusiastic to distribute books and the holy name, and ten more devotees from other countries just joined them. Not long ago, they got a bus for traveling around Europe to distribute the mercy of Lord Caitanya. The deities of Jaganatha, Baladeva and Subhadra are the main...
Only Prabhupada’s books
We went on sankirtan in Zenica Bosnia. I knocked on a door and a lady opened. While I was showing her the books she noticed the books and said, "My husband likes to read this books." "Please call him." I told her. "He's not at home, he's at work. He works as a barber." "Madam, please phone him and tell him that I have books for him." The lady phoned him and said, "There is a young...
Satisfaction
Having walked into an office full of realtors in Kaohsiung, a city in the south of Taiwan, I looked around and decided that the best tactic to get these people to take books was to be bold – as loud and blasé as possible I said, "My Chinese is very poor," in my broken Chinese. "Is your English not bad?" This tends to bring a smile to the face of even the most stoic Chinese linguist. In this case, Mr....
A Real Christian finds Krsna
At the Friday-night harinam in Auckland, I was lurking around the peripheries of the devotees and talking to passersby. I saw a respectable-looking Maori woman sitting on the steps of Aotea Square watching the harinam. I felt a bit intimidated to talk to her, as she held herself with gravity and had a look on her face which I grossly mistook to be fear or at the least distaste. I approached her anyway, and in response to my attempts...
Royal Automobile man gets Krishna’s special mercy
On Monday, the 20th of May 2013, I went to mangal-aratik, as usual. I did not immediately realize that in doing so I had locked myself out of my sankirtan van, as I forgot the keys in the ignition lock. Neither did I realize that this was, in fact, Krishna’s special plan to bless an employee of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland with two books. Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita: “mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca, ..from...
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