Chanting and distributing books near an old ashram
I am a recovering addict. Although I met devotees eleven years ago, I have not been able to maintain the four regulative principles. Over the past four years, I was on a methadone program, and now I am in the process of detoxing from that poison. For the last four nights I was unable to sleep, and just last night I slept for a few hours. By Krishna's mercy, because my body finally had enough stability and a little energy, I begged...
Urdu Bhagavad Gita at His Doorstep
I was part of the group named Gita express which would book distribution in local trains after the job hours. We would do book distribution between Kharghar and Panvel stations. I would make announcement in the trains. Many would see me well dressed and thought that I must be really earning good from this Gita selling business. But when few people did ask me, I showed them my office card and told them that I too like them was a...
Book distribution nectar in New Zealand
Hare Krsna, My guru, Devamrita Swami, once asked whether we ever distributed in a small town called Tokoroa. Many small towns in New Zealand rarely get visited, so on our most recent trip, to fulfill his desire, this town was one of the first places we stopped at. Bhakta Dennis and I started off in the town centre and then continued distributing door to door in the evening. We had many wonderful exchanges, but here I will describe...
London book buyers impressed
While in London recently, I tried to go out daily on book distribution with my son, Haridev. One day, a young lady stopped to talk with me and she took a book. As she was walking away, she had a realisation, and she stopped in her tracks to say, "You just took away my anger" in a baffled tone of voice. I thought, Lord Caitanya is so kind to let me witness Him taking away someone's anger. Another day I had an exchange...
Krishna’s agent
I returned to the brahmacari ashram after a really tough day on Queen Street in Auckland. Although I was out only for a short time, all I received was abuse; not one book went out. Feeling fallen and useless, all I could think was, "After all my years of distributing books, why won't Krishna use me as an instrument?" Entering the temple room, I offered obeisances to the Lord. As I rose, I found a young man facing me,...
Lord Caitanya’s mercy in unpredictable and unexplainable
Hare Krsna, It's such a pleasure when Krishna sometimes shows us the immediate chain of somebody becoming a devotee through the books of His pure devotee. And how sweetly Krishna does it! During the Srila Prabhupada Marathon, London's Soho Street temple was out there on the streets, with grihasthas supporting it from behind. We got over 1,500 sponsored copies of "Chant and be Happy." At the last day, when Christmas...
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