Monthly Sankirtana Festivals Turn Little into Lots
By Madhava Smullen In Silicon Valley’s Hare Krishna community, a new book distribution effort is turning into a juggernaut that could be the future of ISKCON’s outreach. When the predominantly householder community decided in 2004 to find a new way to fit book distribution into their nine-to-five lives, they created a “Monthly Sankirtana Festival.” Their motto? “Many people doing a little bit.” The...
Sastra dana Radhadesh
Hare Krsna, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We would like to let devotees know about how successful is the Sastra dana program here in Radhedesh, Belgium. Mother Rupa Manjari and her son-in-law Mahaprabhu prabhu are taking care of it and in only two months they got very nice results. There are many visitors coming almost every day here and four displays have been installed in the Reception, in the...
New Book Distributors First Taste of Nectar
During the December marathon at Daulatabad, Aurangabad . . . by Rajiev Puri. Our spot for selling books, a book stall, at Daulatabad (a tourist spot en route to the famous Ellora Ccaves) was the same as last year's. But the vendor crowd around there was unhappy to see us there. When the official in charge came and objected to our stall being put up at the entrance of the fort and asked us to remove it immediately, the vendors...
More stories from the villages
Stories about our last week in Finland . . . I approached a lady sitting in the car and showed her The Science of Self-realization. She put it aside immediately and took a big bible into her hand. "I already have a book. I'm on the way to a Bible-group meeting, and I work for the Lutheran church," she informed me. Good, I said happily. Then you can also take one to your priest there! She was suprised, looking like a big...
Prabhupada’s Books – The Ultimate Prison Escape Plan
ISKCON’s Prison Ministry traces its roots all the way back to 1962, when Srila Prabhupada visited Tihar Prison in New Delhi. “If you give me the chance to speak to all the members of the Jail,” he wrote to superintendent Sri Puri, “It is quite possible for me to turn them into ideal characters.” Yet it wasn’t until 1988 that Candrasekhara Dasa established the official ISKCON Prison Ministry in the...
Fall Down by Murari Gupta Dasa
Exploits of a young book distributor No, we are not talking about someone's falling from the path of devotion. We are speaking about the modus operandi of one of the youngest book distributors in last December's marathon: Vanamali, the son of Rajesh Dodeja and Gita Mataji. He is seven years old, but the devotional mood he displays clearly points to wisdom beyond his years. His technique? Just grab a book,...
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