College preaching
May18

College preaching

Dear Prabhu's Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! While distributing books at Irvine Valley College in Southern California, USA, I met one interested person who bought a Science of Self Realization then he went to his class. An hour later he returned and wanted to return the book, he said he didn't agree with Prabhupada that illicit sex leads to materialism. I asked him if he believes in God....

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Workplace book distribution.
May17

Workplace book distribution.

Hare Krsna Prabhu's, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! My name is Hamsagati das. I met devotees in Atlanta in October 1973. The Temple devotees, Deities, Tulsi and especially the liberating info in Bhagavad-gita so impressed me that I bought items from their store: Spiritual Sky shampoo, inscense and sold them to co-workers at my place of employment. Pretty soon we realized that full-time book...

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Monkeys Wash Potatoes
May14

Monkeys Wash Potatoes

by Jaya Gurudeva Dasa Srila Prabhupada once told a story about a group of monkeys on an island who started washing their potatoes, after seeing another group of monkeys that lived on the other side of the island washing potatoes. A similar thing happened in German Switzerland in the mid-nineties. One of the most empowered book distributors I have ever met was distributing in a parking lot–when he saw a young man sitting in a...

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It’s our Right To Distribute
May13

It’s our Right To Distribute

After attending the festival of inspiration in New Vrindavana I was feeling inspired so I went out to distribute books. Right now I'm stuck in Columbus Ohio for a few days till I can get my motorhome running better so there weren't very many choices for me for distribution spots since I have to walk. A short walk from the temple is a place on high street where there is a barnes and Noble book store and some cafe's so I...

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Spot Life
May13

Spot Life

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA I was doing book distribution, door to door, in London when a 14 year old boy answered the door, he took a perfect questions perfect answers book. I suggested he show it to his father, he closed the door and a short while later is father appeared from the basement with the same book in the same hand. I said (for fun) "a moment ago you were a young boy and now you've got a beard! Doesn't...

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Determiation to get Srila Prabhupada’s books
May13

Determiation to get Srila Prabhupada’s books

Time and again we have been told that best way to preach is to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books and often we also think that the best way to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books is to preach about them. But an experience during book distribution marathon this year revealed the reality to us. During last year's marathon we had set up a stall at the local Shani (Saturn) temple. It is in a Muslim locality and the two boys...

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