Our Mission, To Make Them Fortunate
Sent by Bhakti Vikasa Swami Bhagavad-gita 16.6 — South Africa, October 18, 1975 Unless one is bhagyavan, very fortunate, he'll not go back to home, back to Godhead. He will rot here. So this Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to make people bhagyavan. If he wants, he can become bhagyavan. That is our attempt. We are creating so many centers. We are teaching how to become bhagyavan, fortunate, how to go back to...
Ganesa
Recently on the occasion of the Ganesha festival Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty launched the distribution of a special edition of BTG on Lord Ganesha. Priced attractively at Rs. 5/- and available in three languages, the edition is meant for mass distribution. In Jan-Feb, the special low-priced issue of BTG on Lord Shiva also met with high level of success. Caitanya Ananda Prabhu, who regularly distributes books in the local...
Steady Determination is More Pleasing to Krishna than a Big Result
We were on our way to the Moedown Music festival in Up-State New York to distribute BBT books to around 10,000+ music fans. However, after an hour-long search of our van at the security check point, we were turned away because of the exorbitant amount of books in our vehicle. After cleaning up the mess they made of our personal items and leaving, we were stopped 15 minutes later by a New York state trooper because the concert security...
The Mercy of Lord Caitanya
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada. The mercy of Lord Caitanya I was distributing books on Lincon Road a corner of shops in Auckland New Zealand. Many people were taking books.Coming towards me where two young boys, I concluded before stopping them that they were either on drugs or depressed, need I describe more of there morbid expressionless faces. As we talked I discovered they were...
Book Distribution in Iceland
Two weeks in Iceland One day I was distributing in the city of Reykjavik and I approached a man on bicycle who looked a little drunk or poor D like that …it turned out that he was really interested. He asked, "How much?" I said, "Just give something as a donation to the monks." He found nothing, but immediately he was thinking what to give me instead, he took a silver ring from his finger and gave it to...
Real Selflessness
Real Selflessness A book distributor has to be well-versed with philosophy to answer all challenges. Satyananda Prabhu of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty India, narrates his experience with a challenger: I was distributing books in suburban railways in a fairly crowded compartment announcing about the root cause of our problem, when suddenly a man sitting in between two others shouted loudly, "Just tell me in one line...




