Nitai Pada Kamala
Jul30

Nitai Pada Kamala

Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are writing you on behalf of the Bhaktivedanta Academy, Mayapur. Recently the Mayapur authorities gave us the opportunity to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of Srila Prabhupada's Nitai Pada Kamala boat. Our plan is to have it fixed by the coming Gaura Purnima. We would like to use the Nitai Pada Kamala for...

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Buddha helps Book Distribution
Jul21

Buddha helps Book Distribution

Hare Krsna Prabhus and Matajis Here are some nectar stories about how Buddha helps the book distribution. Buddha helps Chinese man get Gita I was distributing door to door with Bhakta Rori in Hamilton, New Zealand. We were walking by one house when I saw that a Chinese man was already standing outside. I called out hello in Chinese and said the Chinese words for monk and temple. He seemed to be ready for me to approach him. I showed...

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An Ever Expanding Ocean of Bliss
Jul21

An Ever Expanding Ocean of Bliss

I was doing sankirtana on the main shopping street in Cardiff. I approached a well-dressed lady, who said she was a lawyer. I asked her " . . . . But do you know about the laws of material nature?" I opened the book "Veda" and showed her the picture of how the modes of nature move the living entity like a puppet. She seemed interested. However, as we talked a boy I met earlier interrupted by asking how much the...

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The Most voracious Tongue is cause of getting Bhagavad Gita
Jul21

The Most voracious Tongue is cause of getting Bhagavad Gita

I was attending my son's waterpark outing with his class in Vancouver when I overhead one of the other mothers talking about how she couldn't stop eating some chocolate she'd bought the day before. She was mad at herself because she had no self-control. Later, by Krsna's arrangement, she ended up in a chair beside me, so I told her that I overhead her conversation and that in the Bhagavad-gita it says that of all the...

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The Proper Medicine
Jul10

The Proper Medicine

Nityananda das from Oporto, Portugal, sent me this appreciation of book distrbution, and it is so beautiful that I thought to share it with you. Hare Krishna. Your servant, Giriraj Swami Dear Guru Maharaja, To continue book distribution I have to regulate myself in terms of having time to chant my rounds properly and read, rest, and eat nicely, and this is very good for me. No other activity can help me to regulate my life. Dear Guru...

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Christians Get Krishna’s Mercy
Jul09

Christians Get Krishna’s Mercy

by Sastra-krit Dasa (Los Angeles) I was distributing in downtown LA when two guys walked toward me. They were tall, with long flowing blonde hair, blue eyes, and tight T-shirts. They stopped when I said, "Excuse me. I'm stopping all the really koooool-looking guys today." After stopping, one of them said with a serious face, looking me straight in the eyes: "You know, we're trying to look like Jesus...

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