Supersoul fulfills my desire
Every Sunday, we do harinama at the same marketplace in Minsk, Belarus, for two hours. Usually I distribute books while it’s going on. Recently, when the harinama was already approaching the end, in my bag I had six books left: three big and three small, all with the same title. I started intensely praying to distribute all the books, but I was so unsuccessful that I couldn’t distribute even one. Finally, the whole harinama party went...
You just carry the books
I approached my temple authority, saying, “Aditya Rupaka Prabhu, can I do another service today? I think that today isn’t really my day for sankirtan.” He didn’t accept my argument, and he responded, “You just carry the books.” “But Aditya Rupaka, I have no inspiration to talk to people.” “Don’t talk, just carry the books. Say to yourself, ‘OK. Today I am just a carrier.’” As soon as I left the temple, I got the idea to walk to...
A coincidence, a blessing
I was distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books in Maribor, Slovenia. Now is the tourist time. Tourists are visiting the city from all over the world. While I was distributing I met a very special person. Why special? She told me that a few years ago she read Bhagavad Gita As It Is, and she noticed at the end of Preface that Srila Prabhupada wrote the Preface on 12 May 1971 in Australia. That is also exactly her birthday, and she is...
With the blessing and instruction from the Vaishnavas anything can happen
I just want to share a nectarian story from the end of May. Because of some family visit, I wasn’t going to be around Auckland for a mid-year marathon, so I tried to increase my book distribution a bit in May. I was aiming to distribute all the books I had in storage. As it came closer to the date of my flight, I was thinking that it seems quite impossible to reach that goal. On the night before my last day on books I did some...
The power of pictures
We had a book table in Hornsby, a northern suburb in Sydney. It was a cloudy day so there wasn’t much crowd. So I decided to walk around and approach people. I saw a young guy smoking and browsing through his phone. I approached him and asked him if he was from Hornsby and caught up a conversation. He said he was working in the supermarket and it is his break time. I presented the Bhagavad Gita but he was a bit reluctant and was not...
Krishna Sends Reminders
There are bumper stickers that say, “I’d rather be hang-gliding”. For devotees of Krishna it could read, “I’d rather be distributing books”. Book distribution is that beautiful experience that melts the heart and is not easily forgotten. However, sometimes we neglect to distribute books, so Krishna sends certain reminders. Here are several reminders I have experienced: Once I was standing outside the LA temple when a couple approached...
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