Now it’s his turn
Recently, book distribution in Gurugram (India) was interesting, because it helped someone who was showing a paramount interest in distributing the Bhagavad-gita. I said, “Do you have a few minutes? Do you have the Gita?” This man said, “I knew it would be my turn, if Krishna wanted.” “Means?” “When you were persuading people, one after another, to accept a Gita, I was listening to the views...
Australia’s first “fired up” Book distributors
The first Australian Book Distributor pioneers built the foundations of Australian ISKCON by selling 10s of thousands of Srila Prabhupada’s Books. I remember the first day Buddhimanta prabhu went out selling big Krsna Books in Sydney in February 1973, he first showed Caru dasa and Yasomatinandana dasa then gradually we all learned how to distribute big books. I had the good fortune to go out on Book distribution many times with...
Another life saved from distributing books
I was distributing books in Mexico. It was a very difficult day. Everyone was saying no, all day, and I had many books in my bag. It felt heavier as the day went on. Then I saw a young lady, and I was thinking of not approaching her because I had already received so much rejection. But I thought, “What’s one more rejection?” I approached her and offered her the Bhagavad gita. She didn’t say anything. Then I started telling...
Appreciation is an encouraging motivator
Last week I stopped a guy outside the Warehouse in Hamilton, CBD. His name is Kedan, and he studies at WINTEC (Waikato Institute of Technology). I showed him “Hiding In Unnatural Happiness”. Taking the book, he flipped through it. As I talked about the book, he asked, “Does this have anything to do with Hare Krishna and the guys playing music on the streets? Because if it does, I’d be interested. That looks...
Thrills in Wellington
In Wellington, recently, there have been some frightening looking billboards for a new “mocumentary” comedy television series, called Wellington Paranormal, wherein police hunt ghosts, werewolves, and paranormal phenomena. This made me recall a sunlit evening on the corner of Cuba and Ghuznee, in Wellington, during the December marathon. A man was hanging around in a high-visibility orange vest while I was distributing. He was on the...
Encountering the Police Chief
The first time I ever went out on door-to-door book distribution, I knocked on the door of a beautiful home. The man who answered was the chief of police, and he told me in no uncertain terms that what I was doing was illegal business activity. He said he was going to book me and that I had to appear in the police station the next morning. I was thinking that my government job was going to be finished. Krishna gave me the intelligence...