ISV Monthly Sankirtan Festivals Smash Records and Illusions
By Akruranatha das In case you have not heard the news, ISKCON of Silicon Valley in San Jose, California (ISV) distributed over 23,500 books for its December 2009 Monthly Sankirtan Festival, doubling last year’s ISV record, and putting ISV in third place for the month in North America. ISV also finished third for the year in North American book distribution. Especially noteworthy is that ISV is a small temple with no full-time...
Srila Prabhupada’s Preaching is the most Potent
Hare Krishna, In October 2009 BBT Sydney received a letter from a lady requesting some of Prabhupadas books. At the top of the list was Srimad Bhagavatam. Little did Marie know it was an 18 Volume spiritual bomb she was asking for. The letter from Marie was emailed to the ladies at the NZ Auckland Loft preaching centre. I arrived at Marie's place 15 minutes from the Loft with BGH,QFE,YEWW and SB1.1. Marie is a 65 year old lady...
Story From Slaughterhouse
At the end of one day during the maraton I visited a slaughterhouse, overcame the guard, and saw an unpleasant, abominable view, dead cows and calfs, blood everywere (on the floor, on the walls, on the doors, …) and only one Ukraine man cleaning after the slaughtering. Before that I neither saw the slaughterhouses nor something similar. After wieving through this scene, I became litle upset and angery and was looking for someone...
Tapping on the Brhad Mrdangam in Texas
Sankirtan is alive and well in Radha Kalachandji Dhama in Dallas. Srila Giriraj Swami came through and impressed upon everyone the importance of taking part in book distribution. He reasoned that all of our activities should be directed towards that goal, using the example of India Railways where they say that all of the different jobs everyone does are to work together towards keeping the wheels of the train rolling. In an attempt to...
Nectar Story from Down under!
Central Train Station, Sydney, Australia… We were behind enemy lines in the train station complex, dropping bombs in the form of Srila Prabhupada's books with haphazard frenzy. Like timed explosives they were killing the materialistic tendencies of every conditioned soul who ventured near. *Sentries deployed, motion sensors fully activated, acquiring target… A young couple who just finished high school. The girl likes...
Life saver
Cronulla Beach, Sydney, Australia. Bhakta Josh from Brisbane and I were having a great day distributing Prabhupada's books at the beach. We took a short lunch brake and went for a swim to freshen up. On the way back to our books I saw a man with a tattoo on his chin and spontaneously, I said "how's it going mate?". "Good" he said a bit surprised. I had no books at the time, we were just running past in our...
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