Steady Determination is More Pleasing to Krishna than a Big Result
Oct10

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...

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The Mercy of Lord Caitanya
Oct09

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...

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Book Distribution in Iceland
Oct06

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...

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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...

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Making the Connection – Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books!
Oct02

Making the Connection – Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books!

The common thread of Srila Prabhupada's teachings in his books is that we are not this body but are pure spirit soul, which is the eternal servant of Krsna and that he is the father of everyone. By the mercy of Guru and Gauranga, during the three months we spent in Kenya and Tanzania, distributing Srila Prabhupada's books to the East African people, I found that even the most uneducated person, when he or she begins to...

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Dont Get in Krsna’s way
Sep25

Dont Get in Krsna’s way

Dear Devotees Me and my godbrother Yasodeva prabhu, the perfection of vaisnava dealings, were distributing in Parramata, Sydney ( Srila Prabhupada called this place pramada, because its full of crazies ). I was off like a rocket. There was a lot of charity workers on the street so I was walking from one end of Church street to the other trying so hard to be the doer. Even with all my expertise nothing was happening. On my own I could...

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