Cultivating the Reading Habit
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Ananta Koti Vaishnava Vrinda ki Jaya! I offer this nectar for the pleasure of all the Vaishnavas in this BDN group. I was distributing books inside a train in the Secunderabad Railway Station. I showed a person some of Srila Prabhupada's books (SSR, JSD, BG). He immediately refused, saying, "I don't want one because I'm just not in the habit of...
ISKCON Salem Travelling Party
We do door to door book Distribution in South India and we always carry Bhagavatam sets along with us in our book carts. Today Acharya Das and Tosana krishna das were doing book distribution in a street and suddenly one person approched our devotees and invited them to his home and our devotees had no idea of who this person is but they went to his home and he said a miraculous incident to our...
It’s Not Always Nectar in the Beginning
Today was chilly but sunny in Dallas. I had the day off from work, and it's the middle of the marathon. Still, I didn't want to go out. I thought, "Why should I do this on my one day off? None of the other devotees I asked wants to go on sankirtan. They're all enjoying, and I have to suffer? It would be easier for a suicide bomber to go to his job than for me to go out there." But . . . duty prevailed. So I...
Mercy at every step
It was raining, and I did not have much time to distribute books but Krishna had managed to let a few books go out…… I got my books ready, seeing everybody so busy going/coming and shopping. My mind told me, "Who is going to take a book in this hurry?" Still my desire was strong, and I approached a gentleman exiting a store. "Excuse me sir, did you see this book today?" "No, and I am not...
Book Distribution Bus Party Stories
Bhakta Rajeev Pandit Prabhu, a brahmachari trainee at ISKCON Chowpatty is visiting Villages around Kolhapur (maharashtra) along with 6 more of his batch mates. Here are his 2 good experiences. 1) BARGAINING ON BHAGAVAD GITA DISCOUNT ON DISCOUNT Travelling in villages, you may come across such people many times, who will ask for a reduced rate on an already discounted gita. Patiently answering them with logic...
Mercy of Lord Balarama
We were in Varna City, Bulgaria, on traveling sankirtan. It was Lord Balarama’s appearance day. I decided to offer all the books I distributed that day to Lord Balarama for His pleasure. There wasn’t so much time to distribute, though, because we had to do some cooking for the festival. I began to distribute around the camper that we travel in, and everything was very easy and blissful. For...
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