A Christian Pastor Becomes a Devotee
About a month and a half back I posted a story about how when I was going shop to shop in Lilongwe, Malawi, a pastor who worked as a manager in a car showroom bought four books from me and expressed interest in buying a Bhagavad Gita later. Well, I went back to see him periodically to find out how he was doing as he read through the books. He went through them very methodically — highlighting, underlining, and marking many...
Krishna Is All Attractive
This is the third year ISKCON Hong Kong participated in the Hong Kong Book Fair. One evening during the fair a lady visited our booth and I struck up a conversation with her. I learned she was quite fond of religion and was a vegetarian, so I recommended that she purchase the Bhagavad Gita. She refused, claiming she was too busy to read, and then left with her two full shopping bags. After a little while she returned and started...
An Appeal for the Book Distributors
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In 2002 the GBC asked me to be the minister of book distribution. Since then I have been traveling around the world trying to encourage book distribution. One of the obstacles to book distribtuon that I often see as I travel in the third-world countries, and sometimes in first- and second-world countries as well, is that many temples cannot afford...
There Is a Name Written in Each Book
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am just finishing up a North American tour, on which I did book distribution and conducted seminars. It has been very enlivening. While traveling I had the good fortune of Jayadvaita Maharaja's association in New York City. He gave a very nice class the evening before I left. He spoke about book distribution (it's always nice to hear our...
What a prayer to Prabhupada will do …..
Maha Buddhi dasa "Bhaktitirta Swami, who was Ghanasyam before taking sanyasa was on book distribution with me in the 1970's distributing full sets to the colleges. We went to a small college and found out it was a holiday. Ganasyam decided to give it a try anyway. I said, "Why do you want to waste your time and mine, it's a small school and it is a holiday!" Ghanasyam said, "Alright, I'll just go to the...
Caitanya Mahaprabhu
By Yadavendra Das My dear readers, Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of Iskcon and Institutor of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust! Here is a very wonderful and true sankirtan story: Yesterday, 20 July 2010 while on Book Distribution in Brisbane, Australia, I met an Indian lady from South India of all places, who gave her name as Tanya. I replied to her:” But that’s not...
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