“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...
The Battle of Easter
We assembled our phalanx one block away from the Home Bush arena (Sydney's Olympic facility). Rupa Raghunatha prabhu, Australias Bhisma of sankirtan, led the advance, because he was the most experienced and the only one who had been there before. I felt excited as I observed our little sankirtan army all ready to give up there lives for Srila Prabhupada. Some of the great worriers were; the small but dangerous Hrman Krsna prabhu,...
Thumbs Up
I was distributing at Mt. Roskill which is in central Auckland, New Zealand. I move up and down on both sides of the street, but outside the banks is the busiest and so I would also distribute there. But, of late, the National bank has a security guard who moves us along and doesn't allow us to distribute outside the bank. This guard wasn't envious or harsh at all, but persistent that we not distribute in front of the bank. So...
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