Only “That” Bhagavad Gita Please
My wife, Saswati Radhike Devi Dasi, and I were distributing Bhagavad-gita one evening near our home in Baguiati in Kolkata. We set up our tables and Srila Prabhuapada's books as usual. We were very eager to distribute books that day. We started announcements regarding Srila Prabhuapada's books. A few people took a Bhagavad-gita. Suddenly we met a lady and her small daughter. When my wife asked the lady to get a Gita, she said...
All Bhagavad Gita’s Are The Same
A girl sitting with her friends in a bus responded to the offer of a Gita: "I have a Bhagavad-gita at home, I don’t need another one." I asked whether she had Bhagavad-gita As It Is. She arrogantly asked, "What does it matter? They're all the same." I replied, "Well, all buses are the same, but you are sitting only on this bus." She said that this is because she had to go to the place where this...
Prayers Answered By Krishna
I am doing four days of traveling book distribution every week. Last week we were in southwest England, doing the coastal towns that sankirtan devotees have not regularly visited for ten to fifteen years. In one town I met an old English gentleman who told me he had just finished reading Gandhi's biography and was praying that he could acquire a Bhagavad-gita. I showed him the book and the quote by Gandhi on the back, and he...
That is the Best Book
I was on sankirtan with Mangal-Aarti on a bitterly cold winter afternoon at Eaton Centre and had spoken to a few people and was just recuperating from the snow and rain a little, standing in the shade. A man walked by and I asked him,"Have you tried yoga or meditation, sir?" He stopped for a while, as I showed him some pictures, but I could tell he wasn't going to buy a book. He walked away, but from the corner of my eye...
Marathon Experiences by Harish Rana, India
Dear Mahabhagavat Prabhu, Thank you very much for your detailed marathon report. It's very enlivening and very motivating every time I read it. Its amazing that you can keep yourself going during the full marathon period despite of odd weather and circumstances. I totally agree with you that India is much more pouplated than Canada or other countries and has upper edge and moreover most of the people here at least believe in God...




