Power of Books
In Aurangabad, India, we mainly do door-to-door or shop-to-shop book distribution in the afternoon, and in the homes we mostly meet housewives, as the husbands are out working. Many times I wonder: Are the people reading our books or not? Are their lives changing or not? One day, I got my answer. A call came one afternoon from an elderly housewife asking for a Marathi Srimad Bhagavatam. It was the month of Shravan, when many people...
Working hard to push on this movement
Even more important than the knowledge of Krishna is the acting upon that knowledge, or devotional service. By the acting he realizes his knowledge and becomes complete. So I am very much encouraged that all you young boys and girls are working so hard to please Krishna, and even I cannot give you any nice thing, still, because you have got some love for Krishna and your Spiritual Master, therefore you have given up everything for...
Book Distribution is taxies and What will this book teach me?
Devotees undergoing Brahmacari training in Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty, do book distribution five days in a week. To catch the local train from Grant Road station they take a cab from the temple and also return by cab. The journey is short and the fare is minimal, and traveling by cab saves energy, which enables them to distribute for a longer time. During the short journey sometimes wonderful events take place. The taxi...
Where there is will there is way
The ever-young Abhinandan Prabhu is undoubtedly the most fired-up book distributor of Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath Mandir's congregation. Even the difficulties that come with the advanced age of sixty-five, including a host of infirmities like diabetes, BP, loss of hearing, and the after-effects of fourteen operations, have been unable to stop him. He is just back from distributing books in super-austere conditions at the Dindi in...
On the bus
A Journey in the Dark Is there anything like a part-time book distributor? If your answer was yes, think again. All you need is to carry books wherever you go. Who knows? You may end up being an instrument of Lord Krishna's plan to give Krishna consciousness to a wandering soul. In this story Pancha Pandava Prabhu recalls: It was my birthday and so I decided to visit my parents in Bhiwandi. I boarded the bus to home in the...
Everyone can find something in Prabhupada’s books
I was approaching one old farm house at the end of a village while at least a dozen dogs started to bark loudly behind its wall. As I came closer this barking become louder and louder, as more and more dogs joined this barking concert behind the wall. I knocked on the gate and one dirty "Yamaduta" opened it and asked me what I wanted. I showed him books, and he quickly said that he is not interested in reading and especialy...
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