Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s Appearance Anniversary
Sent by Bhakti Vikasa Swami In a lecture on this occasion in 1976 in Mayapur Srila Prabhupada quoted his Guru Maharaja: Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada . . . continued that “There is no need of establishing many temples. Better we publish some books.” He said like that. He said that “We started our Gaudiya Matha in Ultadanga. The rent was very small, and if we could gather two-hundred-fifty rupees, it was...
Country Compassion
Dear devotees It was a Saturday. Four of us set out in the sankirtan van to Campbelltown on the south-western outskirts of Sydney. It's kind of like a country town with tama guna farmer type people. This day it was rather quiet when we arrived. Usually only two devotees go there but this day we had four. So I felt bad because there was not many people around and it was my idea for four of us to go there so I decided to leave the...
Ninety Three Year Old Lady Gets the Mercy
SOFIA, Bulgaria One morning during the recent Prabhupada marathon, shortly after arriving at our sankirtan spot, I opened a box full of Srimad-Bhagavatams. A curious lady came by and looked over my shoulder. She was ninety-three years old! "What is this?" she asked. Usually such old people don't buy anything; they just tell us how big their library is and how learned they are. Expecting she was like that, I tried to at...
A Set for Someone
Arvind Prabhu, a devotee in the Brahamchari Trainee group of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty was one of the leading book distributors in the recently concluded book marathon. He recalls an interesting experience about distributing a Srimad Bhagvatam set: I met a Gujarati man travelling with his 18 year old son. I offered them a book and the son took one English Bhagavad-gita. I offered the elderly man Srimad Bhagvatam....
My best Book Distribution experience
On one Sunday morning in Seattle waterfront, Veda Narayanan Prabhu and myself were distributing books. We had a good number of books distributed in spite of few stopping to take a book. By 3.00 PM we were tired and headed back to the car. We continued to distribute books on the walk back to car. I reached the curb side where our car was parked and was waiting for Veda Narayanan Prabhu who was talking to two tall African American...
A Life of Adventure
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Mantreal, Canada One morning recently I was on my way to offices from the temple with some books. I was already late, so I was hurrying to the metro to try some other areas. I found that the metro station was not operating, so the lady in charge told all of us to go outside and a bus would come to take us to another metro station. I went out and was hit...
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