Transcendental bartering
Recently, I needed to get the guru-parampara photograph framed for our home altar. Because of its peculiar shape, the photo required customized framing. I located a framing company in Perth and drove to their showroom. The clerk attending me, David, was friendly and talkative. And he recognized Srila Prabhupada and mentioned having previously seen him. I told him that he is the founder-acarya of the Hare Krishna movement. David has...
Tormented mother reconnects with Krsna
I was on traveling Sankirtan with Sevaka Vatsala Prabhu during the recent Prabhupada marathon. One morning we had planned to visit two country towns in Waikato, New Zealand, that rarely get done. Given that some driving was involved, we were hoping to get off to an early start. Unfortunately, that very morning, our gas cooker started to acting up leading to considerable delays in cooking breakfast / lunch. After dropping off Sevaka in...
Sankirtan Story By Titiksava Karunika Das
We had rented a house in Santa Cruz, CA. About 6 or 7 Brahmacaris trying to start a preaching center. I guess it was about 1981. Some of us were doing prasadam distribution and some were selling incense. I was one of the guys selling incense. I remember it was pretty tough and usually I couldn’t collect much. One day I approached a young couple and tried to distribute something. You know the line “we’re passing these...
The Music From an Open Bhagavatam
Dec 22 in Cisco San Jose: Off late, I was not getting a chance to go into a room to read Srimad Bhagavatam. Hence I started reading little portions at the desk at work as I got the opportunities. One of my colleagues, who joined the team a week ago, saw the open Bhagavatam and asked about the book. He flipped through the pages, and next day he borrowed the book and called the temple to inquire about buying the Bhagavatam. Sri Gopal...
Prayer Worked
We changed locations twice, yet the books were not distributed. At our third location, all of us formed a circle and prayed to Lord Chaitanya: kathañcana smrte yasmin duskaram sukaram bhavet vismrte viparitam syat sri-caitanyam namami tam. After the prayer, as we turned outward, a pious couple was walking by. Parantapa, Niharika and Advaita narrated to them the glories of the Bhagavatam. Abhijeet narrated the glories of Lord...
A Blessed Butcher
Recently, my parents put in a new kitchen and stored the old one at my place, in the garage, while it was sold on TradeMe. When it sold, a man came around with his trailer to collect it. It was a large kitchen, and it took him two trips to collect everything. Each time, it took him a long time to load the trailer and tie stuff down, and, as he worked, he told me about his life: what his children were like and how he had moved to New...
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