BBT International Editorial/Marketing Meeting
Oct23

BBT International Editorial/Marketing Meeting

I heard that Prthu prabhuäs bus party in America wants to distribute Bombay also prints several very nice hard bound Bhagavad Gita s. The variety helps sales. Religious books are big sellers in America and Srila Prabhupada's books should be in stores. The Movies "Bagger Vance" (Bhagavan) and Satyaraja Prabhus book GITA ON THE GREEN" wil be released on November 3. It will be a great boost for GITA sales and all...

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Birthday Nam
Oct04

Birthday Nam

…On a previous maha-harinam, of course on saturday, we were approached by one business man and friends loitering outside of a cafe. He approached asking if we would come inside to sing happy birhtday to his colleague. The man was then brought to Danavir Goswami who at first told him that we just chant Hare Krishna. In reply to this the man said 'I am willing to make a considerable donation', and as H.H. Danavir Goswami...

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Having a Hard Day
Oct02

Having a Hard Day

Dear Book Distribution Arena, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thanks for all the encouragment to go out and try to make anothers day better. Here is one story from the airport in Los Angeles. The day was Bhaktivinode Thakurs merciful appearance day and Mrtyujaya Prabhu and I were distributing books in terminal five, Delta. Los Angeles has a very beautiful arrangement for book distribution, being...

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Selling the Full Set (brahmastra)
Sep01

Selling the Full Set (brahmastra)

But why to distribute the Full Set of Prabhupada's books? Why not a lesser amount of books? In our war against Maya, we have to utilize our complete arsenal. Back to Godhead, as Srila Prabhupada described, is a single bullet. A subscription to BTG sent out monthly through the mail is like automatic fire. Then there are the paperback books. Each one is like a grenade. They are something more likely to remain in a person's home....

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Get the Mercy
Aug27

Get the Mercy

When Srila Prabhupada was present on the planet although there were a few thousand devotees, people thought there were millions of devotees all over the world. Wherever one would go he would meet devotees. There are still many devotees but now when people meet us they ask "Where have you guys been all these years?" I guess it is time to wake up and go out. My experience on harinam is that people are very eager to meet...

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Book Distribution on Janmastami
Aug25

Book Distribution on Janmastami

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! As usualy this year Janmastami festival in Lithuania was held in camp near Vilnius. More then 200 devotees from Lithuania participated and HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami was the main guest. After big kirtan and long lecture about the reasons why did the Lord comes (based on BG 4.9), Maharaja mentioned about the importance of studying the Lords pastimes, reading Srila...

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