At the right place at the right time
Lord Caitanya's causless mercy isn't something mysterious, in one sense. It really enters the hearts of special souls via the medium of the sankirtan devotees. Thus everyone has an opportunity to remember Krishna, though they may be almost unaware of it. About two weeks ago, coming back to Durban from Johannesburg, as usual I brought books with me on the bus. I began observing the passengers, who looked sleepy or else quite...
Book distribution must go on
I shall never forget the ecstasy when we received the first shipment of Bhagavad Gitas. They were delivered right to the door of the storefront one evening at six o'clock, just before the evening kirtana. Afterwards, I stood up to give the customary concluding announcements. But this time, I held in my hands this beautiful purple-colored book and practically cried as I announced that finally your labor of love was published and...
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...
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,...
“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...
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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