Uncle Kamsa
In the early 1970s devotee-teams of matajis used to do traveling sankirtan. One of these devotees was Ananga Manjari dd. She relates a story that once happened at a fair. She and three other women were at a fair, and there one man was bothering two of the matajis by telling people not to give a donation. So they went to Ananga Manjari to ask what to do. She told them to go to another spot and she would try to deal with the problem....
Secret of Success
I remember Christmas eve of the L.A December marathon of 1996. His Grace Vijay Prabhu had decided to stay at the LA airport for as long as it was necessary for him to distribute 100 Bhagavad Gitas hardbound. Sure enough, late at night, he came back to the temple, having distributed that exact amount and having collected 1200 dollars. Yajna Purusa Prabhu asked him a very important question which I recall vividly. He said, "So,...
Ahh Mormons!
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. Doing books in Greece was super blissful. We did soft Gitas and Sri Isopanisads. When I saw that people were not interested I resorted to the old double reverse program by telling people that they definitely wouldn't enjoy the book and it was everything they weren't interested in and opposite of everything they believed in and whatever they do...
Interview with Brigupati Prabhu, October 2002
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Granted- I want name and fame. But I also want the book distributors world-wide to be pleased upon me. Some operate with the idea, "Krsna knows what I did; no need to tell anyone." But I operate with the idea that if devotees hear about my insignificant service, they will bestow their good wishes upon me, and that is my advancement. All...
For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada, from Czech Republic
Here are some stories from the sankirtan devotees in Czech Republic. Panca-tattva Dasa (Czech) wrote the following homage to Srila Prabhupada for his last vyasa-puja celebration: One afternoon I distributed your books in a full supermarket parking lot: the Hypernova store in Ostrov (the west part of Czech). I knocked on the window of a car. There sat a serious older man patiently waiting for his wife to finish a two-hour shopping...
Intimate Connection with the Supersoul
Once, at the L.A airport at Continental Airlines, Brigupati Prabhu and I were sitting in the airport seats, honoring prasadam as passengers walked by on the nearby isle way. At one point, an ordinary man passed, and Brigupati Prabhu stared at him for a long time. After this he turned to me and said, "Quickly! Go catch up to that guy over there! Sell him a Bhagavad Gita! He'll give you twenty dollars!" Without washing my...
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