Touching the soul
Sivarama Swami writes: Thirty years ago I was doing the Prabhupada marathon at the Chicago airport. One afternoon, we devotees were so intoxicated by distributing books that we decided to show that one doesn't have to speak to sell books, that book distribution just depends on our state of consciousness. So we didn't speak. Just after loading my bookbag with (20) maha books I tapped a man on the arm and looked him in the eye....
Book Distribution
I am distributing a few books in London during this marathon. I met a girl from Boston who is studying at Cambridge University for a year. We talked about her field of study (classics), and she got a book about the classical Indian culture. A retired BBC journalist with lots of time to read also got one. So did a young beer-drinker about to sit down at a table on the sidewalk outside Little Jack Horner's pub. An Estonian girl with...
Let us distribute the books with great enthusiasm
The devotees are going out each day to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. This is such a wonderful, wonderful service. To give a person medical assistance is good because it gives the person relief from the bodies for some time, but to give a person the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, as Srila Prabhupada has reveled to the world through his books; is to give the person the opportunity to enter into the spiritual world, it is...
Hospital book Distribution
I went on book distribution with a Bhaktin who is modest and would not like me to advertise her name in this story. She helped me see a new aspect of book distribution, so I must glorify her. We set up a table in a parking lot where I'd had some luck distributing books in the past. However, only a few people bought books, and several hours had gone by. She said to me, "I think we should distribute books in hospitals. Would it...
The Book Distribution Initiative
by Madhava Smullen Book distribution has changed since the “glory days” of the 1960s and 70s. Most devotees are now householders with jobs rather than fulltime missionaries. But is this necessarily a bad thing? Perhaps we can use change in our favor, take advantage of newfound experience, maturity, and wisdom, and create new, innovative methods that will usher in the most successful era of book distribution yet....
Krishna Consciousness is for the simple hearted
Today we were distributing in Oxford, the intellectual capital of England. I tried stopping Anglican Priests, College Professors, Buddhist Monks and a Nun, but had to settle for a humble 83 year old Bus driver,in his uniform and still working for the same company since 1948! He took a book with glee and promised he would read it when he got home from work. It made me realise how Prabhupada’s message really is for the simple...
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