Start of Marathon
Today is Diwali in Tamilnadu and other Southern states. Devotees of ISKCON always take oportunity of any good festival wherever people gather in mass to distribute Srila Prabhupada's transcendental books for the enlightment of society. Yesterday, the Bazaar streets of Salem was packed up as like the other cities. Devotees of ISKCON Salem utilized the crowd to push the books. Diwali book distribution was planned as a initial good...
Prabhupada Marathon
By Vijaya Dasa Dear Vaisnavas, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! That most auspicious time of the year, the Prabhupada Marathon, is coming to us very soon. The Prabhupada Marathon is total bliss. Why? Because this sankirtan movement is as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “anandambudhi vardanam” it is an ever expanding ocean of bliss. It’s an oportunity to imerse ourselves in giving...
Nectar
A heartfelt prayer Raj, from Pandav Sena in UK, is on sabbatical in Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath Temple, Chowpatty. He recalls an interesting incident . . . Your Servant, Murari Gupta das One day I went to Sri Sri Radha-Rasbihari temple with my friends. There some devotees bought books to distribute on their way back in the train. I also bought some Tamil books to give to my parents in Sri Lanka. While returning, my friends started...
OSAKA
After some days of procrastination and dealing with an infected tooth, I finally got out to try and distribute some books. I always find it amazing that even though I have been doing it for so many years, and everytime it is bliss, I still find so many excuses to do something else. The first 30 to 60 minutes were pretty dry. The spot has some pretty down and out people. Gradually some were taking and as I got rolling the donations...
Crazy or not?
Last year I was in LA for a short time. One morning I was waiting for a bus to go downtown to distribute some books when I saw an older women nearby who looked very interesting. She seemed crazy — talking to herself, wearing a simple dress and home slippers. I thought, "Krsna, who is she? She's also a human being and deserves Your mercy." After a couple of minutes she came directly up to me, trying to say something...
Iraq Nectar
Hari bol Prabhus, Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! Just wanted to pas on this story. I was sitting in the ashram reading and someone knocked on the door. Naturally I just called out, "come in," and to my surprise it was an Indian gentleman, he was there to fix something. He walked in and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the altar with my Thakuraji's and fell flat on the floor to pay...
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