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...
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...
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...
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...
Sankirtan seminars in Mayapur
On the first day of the 2011 sankirtan seminars in Mayapur, Navina Nirada Prabhu related a nice story about a Russian sankirtan devotee. While distributing books he met another devotee distributing, so he asked him, "Which temple are you from?" The other devotee asked, "Temples? There are temples?" It turned out that the young man had received a book from someone and had become very inspired by reading it. And when...
A Most Auspicious Ekadasi
by Gokula Lila Dasi One late Wednesday afternoon I went to a mall in central Auckland to distribute books. But about a half hour after I arrived the shops began closing, leaving just a few shoppers, the patrolling security guards, and me. Desiring to continue distributing, I went to the new warehouse parking garage near the mall that I'd learned about a few days earlier. It wasn't so busy, yet I had some sweet exchanges. Not...




