A very appreciative lady
We were just leaving the temple with Dayal Nitai Prabhu (DNP) and Nitai Caran Prabhu (NCP), and were in the train going to Paris. As usual I had some books in my hand. A lady sits next to me, and I can see that she is trying to read the title of the first book of the stack. So I ask her: “Are you trying to read the title of my book? It is Bhagavad-gita.” She then tells me that she is into spirituality. I tell her that this...
Where do all our Bhagavatam set customers come from?
We were busy serving customers, when I saw a couple sitting peacefully under our book display and reading the books. I became curious to know more about them, whether they are devotees, customers, what they were reading and if they would possibly take a Srimad Bhagavatam set. As soon as I approached them, they started glorying the books they were reading. She was reading The...
Paris sankirtana rewards an atheist
It often happens that people just give a nice donation but do not take a book. Someone will say, “I like what you are doing, but I think that you should give the book to someone who really needs it.” But THEY REALLY need it, too! So I was wondering how to give someone the book at this point in the conversation . . . Recently, I met an atheist in Paris. He doesn’t like religion and God. So I told him, “No problem. I...
Cultivation led to this set sale
This relationship began back last year. We had a kitchen-extraction cleaning at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, NZ, so I rang up the company who previously had been collecting our oil every month. A gentleman answered the phone, and once we got talking he asked me whether Bhakti Lounge is connected to the Newlands temple. In response, I said that we’re not directly linked to them, but our centre is the contemporary version of a Hare...
Srila Prabhupada in Boston 1969
“We must not be disappointed that no one is hearing Krsna consciousness. We will say it to the moon and stars and all directions. We will cry in the wilderness, because Krsna is everywhere. We want to get a certificate from Krsna that, “This man has done something for Me.’ Not popularity. If a pack of asses says you are good, what is that? We have to please Krsna’s senses with purified...
A blissful day, in a determined mood, in and around Liverpool
The rain was torrential. My path to the bus stop was blocked by floods underneath rail bridges, twice. I watched two firemen drag an old man, soaked up to his neck, out of his car, which remained almost completely submerged in the five-foot-deep trench of water he had tried to drive through. “A good start to the day,” I chuckled to myself. I was trying Great Crosby, a small town outside Liverpool (home city of The Beatles and Bhakta...
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