Gone Warped… back in six weeks! (1)
Jun28

Gone Warped… back in six weeks! (1)

Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In an attempt to send you some reports from my travels on this years Warped Tour I have used an old mailing list so if you do not want to receive these please, please, please reply personally to this e-mail and I will immediately take you off that list. I haven't distributed books or written about it for a while so I am very rusty on...

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Laundry Room Preaching
Jun27

Laundry Room Preaching

Haribol prabhus and matajis, this book distribution katha is very enlivening, especially to those of us (like myself) who are living outside of the temple but who would still like to be a part of the book distribution experience. sastra dana is a wonderful way to get srila prabhupada's books out to the public. one place that i like to place prabhupada's books is in laundromats and laundry rooms in apartment buildings. many...

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The Missing Link…The Follow Up and Character Cultivation Part 2
Jun25

The Missing Link…The Follow Up and Character Cultivation Part 2

The follow up is certainly an art, to package and tailor the Vedic siddanta according to the individual, to provide a user friendly medium where one can feel comfortable to approach Krsna Consciousness at a personal pace. People will become inspired by the individual and in the right atmosphere they will be the ones to mark the necessary changes in their life. The main encouraging theme is to just add Krsna. Interestingly enough in...

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Book Distribution from Mumbai
Jun17

Book Distribution from Mumbai

"We Just can't do it!!" Bhakta Parimal rejected the proposal. As they turned to me, I flustered, "Well..er..mm, I mean" I was not sure myself. Vitthaldeva Prabhu insisted, "Prabhus, this is the best time to do it. Let's just go for it". We had our apprehension, although we knew it wasn't a bad idea after all. We wondered how the crazy Mumbaiites would react. Will the people appreciate our...

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Starting a Discusion
Jun17

Starting a Discusion

Dear devotees and Candrasekhar prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I liked your point about giving a very straight forward presentation of yourself as a representative of ISKCON when disributing Prabhupada's books. I did stickers and a few books nine years ago. I am indebted to the devotees who gave me the opportunities to do this service, but it was more or less explained to me that if I...

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The Missing Link…The Follow Up and Character Cultivation
Jun17

The Missing Link…The Follow Up and Character Cultivation

Over the years so many seeds have been planted in the form of Srila Prabhupada's books but unfortunately the follow up in the watering of these beginnings has not been a priority. Distribution is a perfect formula but minus the cultivation places a governor upon the full throttle potential of the sankirtan yajna. As one must read the books in order to truly distribute them, the next stage of individual and collective nurturing...

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