Four Things That Happened After I Decided I Am Not The Doer
My godbrother Yasodeva and I were distributing books – the perfection of Vaishnava dealings – in Parramatta, Sydney. Srila Prabhupada called this place "pramada," because its full of crazies. I was off like a rocket. There were a lot of charity workers on the street, so I was walking from one end of Church Street to the other, trying so hard to be the doer. Even with all my expertise, nothing was happening. On my...
From a subway to the Temple on Wheels
I was on my way to an evening talk by Radhanatha Swami, and when I got off the subway, I saw a young man and offered him Srila Prabhupada's books. He found them interesting and gave a donation for them. Then I asked whether he would like to go to the evening program and learn something about the ancient Vedic wisdom of India from a very interesting and wise devotee of Krsna. He said that he was a little busy, but that he may be...
The Perfection Of Vaishnava Dealings
Me and my godbrother Yasodeva prabhu, the perfection of Vaishnava dealings, were distributing in Parramatta, Sydney (Srila Prabhupada called this place pramada, because its full of crazies :-)). I was off like a rocket. There was a lot of charity workers on the street so I was walking from one end of the Church street to the other trying so hard to be the doer. Even with all my expertise nothing was happening. On my own I could hardly...
The Big Bang joke
Many years ago I was distributing books from a book table at a rest stop in California, and one man came and saw that we are a spiritual organization. He started speaking about everything actually beginning with the Big Bang. I said, "Earlier this morning there was a pile of rubber and steel on the parking lot here and someone put a stick of dynamite under the pile, blew it up, and now we see that the Mercedes Benz over there has...
Saving a life
I did sankirtan in the same spot in Gothenburg, Sweden for the whole month of the 2016 Prabhupada Marathon, except for one half hour on the last day, when, for some reason, I decided to try the other side of the walkway. There I stopped a well dressed man, aged 36. I told him who we are and what our books are about and said that these books help with everyday problems like stress and depression. He looked at me with a shocked look,...
Coming to Krsna by reading books
On my way to take prasada at a devotee's house, I asked him how he joined. "When I was seventeen, I started asking the big questions about life and reading books on philosophy. My father observed this and told me that he'd gotten a book ten years ago from the Hare Krsnas — it was in the attic. So I went up there and found the Bhagavad Gita, very dusty. I brought it down to my room, wiped off the dust, and started...
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