Transcendental Sound Vibrations
Jan11

Transcendental Sound Vibrations

On Christmas Eve, I was trying to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books around the famous Haight/Ashbury intersection in San Francisco. Bhakta Matt and I were distributing together all day. Dusk was upon us at about 6pm and the mode of darkness began strongly saturating the atmosphere. On almost every corner a maddened vagrant was yelling some nonsense or aggressively interrupting one of our interactions. Bhakta Matt and I agreed...

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ISV Distributes 36,552 Books in Annual Prabhupada Books Marathon
Jan08

ISV Distributes 36,552 Books in Annual Prabhupada Books Marathon

By Raxit Jariwalla Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! ISV’s annual books marathon ‘The MSF of 32,000 Books, which began in the last week of September 2011 was concluded on January 4th and the Final Results were offered to Srila Prabhupada and the Deities at the Wednesday night Gita class at the ISV temple in San Jose. In a letter to Hrdayananda Prabhu dated 21 December 1974,...

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“Make Them Happy and They Will Take a Book”
Jan08

“Make Them Happy and They Will Take a Book”

Yes, a jolly devotee at the book stall can make others happy and thus distribute many books. Many times in the name of selling books we become desperate and frown at people who do not buy. Well, such attitudes may often turn away probable customers. Mahesh Hande Prabhu, age 25, is an active youth member at the ISKCON temple in the Chowpatty section of Mumbai. Every day he and his friends have been setting up their book stalls for two...

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Chowpatty fields another book distributor
Jan06

Chowpatty fields another book distributor

"I want to do something. . . . I want to do something," said Srivas Thakur when he met us on Sunday in our transcendental book "godown," or book warehouse. We offered him various options for book distribution: door-to-door; stalls at the nearest railway station; sastra dan. Srivas decided to try them all. During the day, while in his office, he'd try sastra dan through his contacts; in the evening, the stalls....

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The Woodford Festival (Australia)
Jan05

The Woodford Festival (Australia)

I found out what my health problem was and then started treating it, hoping I would be healthy enough to distribute books at this festival while in Oz. By Krsna's mercy I was 90% better, so I was able to distribute. This festival attracts 60,000 people every year. It lasts six days, and people mostly just camp out the whole time, as we did. Ajita Prabhu (the president of New Govardhana) and his team of seventeen devotees were...

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Sankirtan nectar in London
Jan03

Sankirtan nectar in London

Recently, I stopped a middle-age lady and gave her a Sri Isopanisad. She took the book, looked at the cover, looked at me and said, "Can I please have one more book like this?" I happily gave her a second copy. She looked at me holding an Isopanisad in each hand and asked me, "Can I please, please have one more?" I said, "Of course", and gave her another one. Then, holding three books she said, "My...

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