Despite Discouragement
I was going door to door in Hamilton’s poorest area (ruff looking state houses) when I saw a young man dressed like a hoodlum on a BMX. I stopped him and said, “Hey! Are you a rapper or break-dancer?” He stopped and managed to give me $2 and take a 'Raja-Vidya.' I found out that he lived up the driveway where I would go after the house I was about to approach. So I told him to tell his mates and brother I...
A Drunk, a Car accident, a Candle & Chocolate
We were distributing books in Lithuania, in a town called Panevezys, in the former Soviet Union. I entered an old dormitory, where usually poor people live. I decided to start from the fifth floor. Before entering the doors to the corridor of the fifth floor, I met a drunkard. He took and looked at a book, but was without money. So I wished him good luck and continued. I came to the first door, and I understood from the smell of...
Book Distribution Bus Party Part – 02
We were 7 people on the bus party to Amravati, a district in Maharashtra state of India. This happened in a village called Shirajgaon. I was doing door to door book distribution and seeing a mediocre response I decided to do go for the banks and offices. I came to know that there is a local Maharashtra bank at walking distance from my location. so I was knocking doors and enquiring from the villagers. It was 11am. Mostly the...
Book Distribution Bus Party Part – 01
It is a common knowledge that Hindus and Muslims are not the best of friends. There is always tension simmering between these two communities wherever they stay close together. My experience is not any different either. But this village called Bhabhulgaon in District Akola of Maharashtra was a little different. It so happened that this guy was probing the ‘Bhagavad Gita As It Is’ with inquisitiveness. And then he...
A Dose of Karma
I was walking near the Culver Hotel in Los Angeles, and I saw a woman on a bench, smoking (and looking freaked out). I showed her a Bhagavad-Gita. She said she could not sleep because she was sure there was a ghost in her hotel room. I said that this will solve the problem: These sacred mantras liberate ghosts. We chanted a mantra together from the second chapter. She was amazed. She had almost died...
Don’t Be Discouraged
I traveled from Ahmed Nagar to Pune early one morning by bus, so I was chanting. By the time I completed my chanting, there were 20-25 minutes remaining for the bus to reach Pune. I thought I could try to distribute two Marathi Bhagavad-gitas that I was carrying all the way from Pune to A'Nagar & had not had any opportunity to distribute, as another book distributor had his BGs to show to all. I went from one seat to another,...
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