More Nectar from Aisvarya Prabhu
One quick note: the previous story by Asivarya Prabhu was edited by Tattvavit Prabhu So back to Bhagavad-Gita 101; Krsna's the doer. You'd think I would learn that lesson after a few years! Luckily… na me parthasti kartavyam trisu lokesu kincana; there's no work prescribed for Krsna in all three planetary systems, otherwise he'd have his work cut out with souls like me. But still out of His causeless mercy he...
Saved by the Book by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa ONCE IN San Diego a devotee was distributing small books in a parking lot. As he approached one car he saw a young man sitting in the driver's seat. When the devotee knocked on the window, the man shouted, "Look, just leave me alone! Get outta here!" The devotee went on his way, but then he thought, "This guy's pretty bad off. He needs a book." So the devotee returned and stuck a small...
You Can Distribute Books by Navina Nirada Dasa
Navina Nirada Dasa FOR MANY YEARS members of the Hare Krsna movement around the world have gone out daily to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. These devotees want to give everyone the chance to learn the transcendental knowledge contained in the Vedic literature. Many people have come to Krsna consciousness simply because they met such a dedicated devotee who presented Prabhupada's books with enthusiasm and conviction. But...
Ask a monk any question
Hare Krsna, Whilst traveling around the planet, I've been performing a service called “Ask a monk any question.” I thought I could share with the devotees some book distribution stories. Day 25: on the boat to Labassa, Fiji Islands (Pacific Ocean) While working on the computer on the boat, an Indian passenger saw my dhoti and inquired whether he could ask me a question. “Of course,” I said, taking my sign...
The Power of Prabhupada’s Books by Navina Nirada Dasa
In this column we present the experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. The editors The Old Book Distributor ONCE WHEN I WAS selling books on a street in Germany I showed a teacher The Journey of Self-Discovery. He was skeptical and not interested in the subject. But then a man about sixty-five years old came by on a bicycle. He stopped and...
Some Stories
I had an interesting engagement today, I was speaking to one guy who was pretty interested and wanted the books but he only had a atm card so I said no problem lets just walk over to the machine (this works 95% of the time, just walk over to the machine with them) we walked over but he didn't remember his pin #, still, he really wanted to get the books, what to do? Then he remembered his wife waiting in the mall, he could get the...
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