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...
The Multilevel Marketplace of the Holy Name
By Akruranatha Dasa The devotees of ISKCON of Silicon Valley (ISV) in San Jose are still glowing after recently completing the annual Bhaktivinoda Thakur Monthly Sankirtan Festival. They set for themselves the daunting goal of mobilizing 300 book distributors, but when the dust settled a record 556 people had gone out, with a net result of over 10,000 books distributed and over $18,000 collected in donations! On July 17th I...
Rock Festival Distribution in Finland
Jaya Srila Prabhupada! For the last four or five years we have distributed books to the crowd at the annual Tuska ("Pain") Open-Air Metal Festival in the center of Helsinki. The festival runs from Friday through Sunday during the first weekend of July. Compared to some other rock festivals, the crowd at this one is a little less intoxicated. They mainly go there because of the music. Actually, the fact that they're a bit...
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