Prabhupada Sells the Gita
Apr29

Prabhupada Sells the Gita

I was outside Foodtown in the Mt. Eden section of Auckland. I had three "Journey of Self-discovery"s in my bag. A short man in his 60s with a long white beard called out to me as he emerged from the supermarket's sliding doors: "Got the Bhagavad Gita?" I told him "Sure! I've got a few copies in my car," and began accompanying him to the car, which was parked a few yards from the entrance. As we...

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Nectar story from Toronto
Apr12

Nectar story from Toronto

Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada I met this man at Finch and he told me we had met before 2 months earlier. When I inquired he told me he had taken the Bhagavad gita and he even confirmed he had read bits of it. I offered him another book and his first reaction was that he has his own practice and no more books. So I did not push him but then he asked me ÒI have read that Bhagavad gita, what is...

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Gaura Purnima Sankirtana lila from Okinawa,Japan
Mar22

Gaura Purnima Sankirtana lila from Okinawa,Japan

Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Yesterday an amazing thing happened while Gita Govinda was on Sankirtana.Ê I was out chanting with a mrdanga in my usual spot and my friends walked by with a donation box for the earthquake victims. I called them over and dropped a 500 yen gold coin in their bucket and gave them a mantra card for their daughter. Gita also gave a small donation on...

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Sankirtana anyplace, anytime!
Mar20

Sankirtana anyplace, anytime!

Hare krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! My wife Bhaktin Shannon and I were moving from our base in Arkansas to New Vrindavan. After a few hours of driving, we decided to take a break and take advantage of a local mall in the suburbs of St. Louis to distribute some books and Prasadam. It was 9pm. We noticed most of the people were milling around the Starbucks on the corner. We struck up...

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The Second Day of Seminars in Mayapur
Mar15

The Second Day of Seminars in Mayapur

Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. On the second day of the 2011 book distribution seminars in Mayapur, Sadbhuja Prabhu, the president of the Leipzig (Germany) temple, spoke. He said that a scholar in Germany did a survey of religious movements around the world and found that every decade hundreds of movements begin and stop. One of the main prerequisites for a movement to last, he...

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Paramatma and the time bomb affect
Mar13

Paramatma and the time bomb affect

I was distributing books at the University of California Irvine campus in USA with Sachitanoy prabhu when I saw a young lady near by sitting and reading something. I looked closely and to my surprise she was reading "Krishna the Reservoir of Pleasure." I saw her reading and reading with a huge smile in her face. She finsihed the pamplet and as she was leaving I asked her, "Did you liked what your were reading?" She...

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