Pious police and security officers get books
While distributing books from a table at a local college, I had one of the garlands of Sri Sri Rukmini-Dwarkadish (the Los Angeles Deities) on the book table. The garland attracted people with its beautiful colors and fragrance. It particularly caught the attention of a female security officer. She was so attracted to the garland that she ran over and said, "Where did you get this? It's beautiful!" I told her that it was...
Mysticism in Melbourne
Whilst distributing on Queen Street in central Auckland, I stopped a man from Columbia. Sebastian used to be a peace activist, arranging protests against the drug trade, and now he is earning a Ph.D. at Melbourne University. As I presented Bhagavad-gita, he showed much interest. Then, however, he started intently examining the back cover of “Hiding in Unnatural Happiness” which I was holding in my other hand. Suddenly he grabbed the...
Mercy at the mall
It was a quiet day at the shopping mall where I had my book table, and I was praying for some mercy. A South Indian lady was eager to take many books and wanted to give me only a couple of dollars. Then a gentleman (Nayak) showed up and said, “Give her whatever books she wants. Don’t worry about the money; it’s on me.” I thought he was her husband. So she took what she wanted and gave $2 and walked away. This...
Experiencing Krishna’s magic
Recently, I got the opportunity to visit Baltimore, Maryland, to attend the 2017 American College and Research Library Conference. This event is attended by thousands of North American college librarians looking for new books. I traveled from Los Angeles with Sura Dasa, a veteran in book distribution. Together we experienced quite a treat. The first day started out very slow, with hardly anyone taking a book. I became restless...
Thrilled and blown-away by special customers
In February, I had a book table set up in an Indian shopping mall in Atlanta. A lady walked by, along with her teen-age son. I called them over to give them some prasada. I gave both a spoonful of maha-halava. The mother said, “We have all these books.” The boy liked the new BBT book by my Gurudeva, Devamrita Swami, and she bought it for him. A couple of weeks later, the boy, Nikhil, approached my book table and put a nice...
An unsung hero
Last year, when I was in Ljubljana, Slovenia, I was invited to visit Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990s the devotees there had a big temple, which eighty devotees lived in. There were thirty-five full-time book distributors. Now, unfortunately, they have no temple. But there is a book distributor carrying the baton: Dharma Dasa (an appropriate name). Before he joined ISKCON he was a hardcore atheist. But one day his mother came home with...
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