Nothing is too Little
Bhakta Rick from Holland is currently in Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty in India. He daily goes for Book Distribution and is very enthusiastic even on bad days. His secret: A story he recalls from his home town. Bhakta Rick: Once a book distributor from Amsterdam came to my home town for book distribution. He had a bad day. He could distribute only two books in the whole day. He was very frustrated. "I have never done...
Krishna Always Helps
We were distributing Srila Prabhupada's books in the trains at the train station in Bangalore, South India. Often it is difficult to distribute even a one book to someone. Once I was approaching every person in the train and trying to show them our books but nobody was even touching them. So I entered one train going to Chennai (south india) and in this train, one air conditioned car had Srinivasa Govinda's pictures...
“This Bhagavat Gita will purify me”.
I was distributing at Ashfield, Sydney Australia. I stopped one elder India man just about to cross the road. He wasn't very happy to have me stop in his tracks. "Apka nam kya?" (what is your name Sir). I said "Mira nam Uddhav." He was a little surprised to hear a young Australian speak Hindi. I said "Deko bahagavan!" (look the Supreme Personality of Godhead)."Prabhupada book lelo." (lelo...
Gold in rubbish and the world is slowly becoming Krsnaized
While distributing books door to door in Thames, New Zealand, I came across a very sinister and vile man who spared no energy in his attempts to completely ruin my day with a torrential downpour of vulgarities and obscenities. It was as if he had been saving all of the frustration borne of a lifetime of unfulfilled desires and had finally found a suitable person on whom to deposit them. He even tried to sic his dog on me. Needless to...
Be More Aware and Picking up where he left off
Our ISKCON center in Seattle Washington is interesting because although no one lives in the temple there are quite a few devotees, sixty initiated. They recently had a four day Kumbha Mela Festival (the only one in the west) with Janmastami being the main attraction during the festival. Thirteen thousand people visited the temple during the four days of the mela and the devotees distributed almost three thousand dollars worth of...
Surprise Surprise
After a hard day of book distribution on Queen street, which is the main street in Auckland, New Zealand, our team decided to venture south for a bit of door to door, just to top off the evening. I was having a hard time on the street (as I usually do) and was not in the most devotional mood, still, out of duty we trudged our way through the unfortunate town of Old Papatoetoe, determined to acheive fame and adoration. Obviously, my...
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