Full Surrender
Oct18

Full Surrender

Haribol Prabhus! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently, Niranjana Swami told me about an interesting person in Kiev, Ukraine. This person is an Orthodox Christian, but became attracted to Krsna consciousness after getting a book. He tried to live in the temple as brahmacari, but it was to foreign to him. So he went back to live in the Christian monastery, though still chanting sixteen rounds a...

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Godess Kali Priestess Gets the Mercy
Oct18

Godess Kali Priestess Gets the Mercy

October 14, 2002 Haribol, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here is one small book distribution story. Three of us from New Vrindavan had stopped off at a renaisance festival between Columbus, Oh and Cincinnati last weekend. As we were distributing from car to car during the incoming, I approached a really open minded looking young guy with his friends. I presented the Bhagavad Gita and started to explain,...

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Sankirtan in Turkey
Oct18

Sankirtan in Turkey

While attending the Russian Vaisnava Festival I had the pleasure of meeting a devotee named Krishna Prema Dasa that goes back and forth across the Black Sea to do business in Turkey. Some months ago he was bringing in a trunk of Srimad Bhagavatams to distribute to the many people who speak Russian there. He had the books under other cargo and was hoping to slip by the Turkish authorities but was stopped by their customs agents. As the...

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The Potency of Prabhupada’s Books
Oct09

The Potency of Prabhupada’s Books

October 9, 2001 Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada's transcendental book distribution. I just wanted to share a nice experience we had in Athens, Ohio recently. My friend Mukunda Madhava and I were distributing books on the campus there, and I met one guy who was really interested and took a Quest for Enlightenment. He said he would pass it on to his friend, Luke. He told me that this friend of his had...

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Nitya Krishna Prabhu
Oct03

Nitya Krishna Prabhu

While hearing book distribution scores being read out at ISKCON's Moscow center, I was surprised that an especially appreciative cheer went up when the name of Nitya Krishna Prabhu was announced, as his score was not among the highest. On inquiry I discovered that Nitya Krishna Prabhu was the blind devotee I had seen a few times at ISKCON Moscow, and that he somehow or other goes out alone daily for book distribution, either to...

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We Want to get a Certificate from Krsna
Oct02

We Want to get a Certificate from Krsna

"What if people don't want to hear our message?" Pradyumna asked. "The people might not understand our message, but Krsna will be pleased," Prabhupada replied. "And that is our mission. They thought Jesus Christ's mission was stopped. They killed him. But his mission was attained. He preached three years only, but so many followers. He pleased Krsna. We must not be disappointed that no one is hearing...

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