French revival

Temple in France

Dear Vijay prabhu Please accept our humble obeissances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. This month of december 2003 has been for a few of us here in France an auspicious time of revival and rejuveneration.From external apparent setbacks of management problems,which could just plunge us in an ocean of despair ,Krishna has shown that the only soothing way out of it was and is forever book distribution.

Not many of us on the call, but enough to build up a part time team.My wife,Ananta Rupini devi dasi, Gopaswami prabhu, both of them Prabhupada's disciples,Bhakta Laurent, a congregation member and myself.

Due to a very poor personal health, my wife did mostly appointments with health stores for selling them vegeterian cookbooks.Gopaswami, who is since more than 15 years village doctor, has taken one week out from his very busy schedule to relish door to door(that he had not done for 15 years as well). Bh Laurent,congregation member since about a year, took also one week out of his job to get initiated in the sankirtan magic, and he got addicted to it. The results came at the end of the month:350 books distributed(they will be sent soon to the international SK newsletter).It is not much compared with some other places, but it was particularly enlivening, as we felt so much Sri Chaitanya's and Srila Prabhupada's mercy on us for bringing so many souls to them,and for bringing again scores of books distributed from France,whose name had completely disappeared from the Sankirtan world since more than 6 years.Except for bh Laurent, who is 25 years old, the other three of us are more around 50, but we feel that this book distribution activity is ever fresh, nava yauvanam, and never getting old.Same contacts with the people, soul to soul,same occasional struggles with the mind, same transcendantal work of Paramatma guiding the people, and same astonishing daily miracles.Out of many nice contacts, I recall particularly one couple of butchers.In the past I tried many butchers, who sometimes took a book, but most of them were very gross people.These ones,from the beginning, seemed more refined, I would say,cultivated.It was the end of the day, they were relaxed as they had no more customers.They really took interest in the discussion about the eternity of the soul,confided to me that they were not after wordly pursuits.Instead of going always for bigger money, bigger shop,that they had before, they preferred to go for a simpler life, eager to read more and more and learn…very surprising for butchers!Finally, they took 2 Srimad Bhagavatams very happily.

Another nice guy was a teacher who bought 2 Krishna books and a Coming Back precisely to be equipped with the real source of Vedic wisdom, as he was not at all trusting the manuals given to him by the french government regarding the history and culture of India,which he considered as falsified.He was really eager to read them, for teaching the real stuff on his next course on Hinduism.

Praying for your mercy and deeply appreciative of the wonderfull efforts done by thousands of sankirtan devotees daily around the world,

Your Servant

Nitai Gaurasundar das

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