December 5th, 1975
Ramesvara, head of the American division of the Book Trust, reported a recent new record in book distribution. In a one-day competition, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta temples distributed 5,406 hardbound books, with some individual devotees selling over two hundred each. Ramesvara's report was dramatic. "Our men are willing to do anything to please you, and all of them have dedicated their whole lives to distributing these...
Krsna! help me!
Dear devotees Town Hall, Sydney, Australia. In the heart of Sydney's hustle and bustle, with all my might, I was attempting to distribute Prabhupada's books. After half an hour nothing was happening. I could hardly even get someone to stop let alone take a book. Heavily governed by the mode of passion I was loosing my enthusiasm and I still had the whole day ahead. So I cried out loudly, many people would have heard, Krsna!...
Book Distribution in Slovenia
I distributed a book for a ten-euro donation to a woman with a young boy. She does yoga, and I told her that I do it, too. She took interest when I told her that the difficult goal of yoga is easier to reach by kirtan-yoga, the chanting that she could hear near us, performed by three devotees. These saints (on the the cover of the TLC), I said, taught kirtan. Because she works nine hours a day and then takes care of her son, she has...
Book Distribution at the Universities
A guy came to my table and said, “Three years ago you showed me the Bhagavad-gita and I really wanted it and told you I would be back to get it. When I returned you were gone. But now I have money I would like to get it." Delayed book distribution. I was showing the BG to one gentleman, he expressed his interest but said he was a Christian. He said, “If you can show me in this book where Jesus is praised I’ll...
Prabhupada’s books are time bombs!
It was hot summer day in May 2003. I was preparing for medical entrance exam and was completely exhausted by the long hours I had put. Add to it the tremendous anxiety about carrier and future. I desperately wanted to read some inspiring book, which would give me some peace of mind. I started searching books on the shelf. In the corner was Bhagavad-gita As It Is. It had been kept on my book shelf for nearly ten years. I opened it and...
Don’t judge the book from the cover……..
That it was a really cold day made book more necaterian. Nobody was stopping, all of a sudden this student passed by with his huge headphones I waved to him, smiling he took off his head phones. I presented the gita saying everyone with a smile gets to see a copy. He (His name was Tom) happily grabbed the gita opened the book and started reading. He said he studies religion and phylosophy and he really liked this NETI NETI (not this,...
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