When it rains it Pours
The Panihati Festival was in Atlanta was great. Devotees from all over the world converged on New Panihati Dham for the festival due to HH Jayapataka Swami being present. It was his first time traveling outside india since his stroke. Many senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada were present. Excitement was in the air. I was talking about book distribution with some senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada, they told stories of the seventies...
Maktar the Bhakta Part 1
We were distributing in front of a church in New Town, Sydney. One African bodied man popped his head out of an African restaurant next door. He said "What you got?" So I showed him Bhagavata Gita. He said "I got no money but can I have the little book (Perfect Escape written by HH Devamrita Swami)?" Though I thought he had been a bit abrupt I gave it to him and continued my service. The next time I went to New...
Without humility, we can succeed at nothing………
I distributed books in the upmarket Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. On the 3rd floor I met a young Indian man wearing neck beads. I asked him where he got the beads, and he told me that they were Rudaksa beads and that he was a brahamana. I told him that I was a traveling monk from South Africa and asked whether he was from Nairobi. Yes, he said. He owned a travel agency in the mall. I showed him a selection of books, to...
What a counting game, just numbers, no souls….
Hare Krishna I was distributing in Kassel, a big city in Germany. It was during the Marathon. I had a quota of 100 Books a day. I really wanted to distribute that much. The previous days had been very nice. But this day my mentality became that of an ass. WORK WORK WORK. No compassion, no Krsna, no taste…. Oh what a counting game, just numbers, no souls….uff tough stuff. In the first 3 Hours I distributed 25 books. I...
The Never Ending Book Buyer
The day was looking to be a typical day on sankirtana it seemed. All of a sudden I heard my sankirtana partner, Uddhava Prabhu, having an animated discussion. He laughed out loud all of a sudden. It was hard to tell from his laugh if he was jubilant or upset. The man left his company and walked down my way. I wasn't sure how to react but he approached me. He engaged me in conversation and started to tell me all about different...
His name is Krishna
There is a young lady who came to live in our temple in Sao Paulo Brazil three months ago, she is 19 years old and is fire up to distirbute books, a few days ago she told us a nice story: "I stopped one lady, showed her a book, explained it a little, then after looking at the book for a while she said: "Hey, wait a minute, Krishna! This is the name of my son." I said: "Oh very nice, so you like the Hare...
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