I felt like it was the right thing to do.
While visiting Denver, I went up to Fort Collins, just north of Denver, with some devotees to distribute books and chant at Colorado State University. The students were exceptionally nice, taking Bhagavad-gitas enthusiastically. The devotees have a nice program there, every dayuesday. they have an attractive harinama, sitting down in the middle of the campus. Fifty yards down the walkway I had a table full of Srila Prabhupada’s books. After the harinama and book distribution, we all went to a reserved room on campus where we held a...
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Over the last few weeks, I took some time off from my regular services and went out on book distribution in the Perth area to promote an event organized by The Sacred India Gallery. The gallery regularly organizes meditation evenings to target people new to Krishna consciousness. The gallery is under the guidance of Bhurijana Prabhu and his wife, Jagattarini, disciples of Srila Prabhupada. On one of my book-distribution outings at the local shopping center, I showed a Science of Self Realization to a lady in, perhaps, her early fifties. I...
read moreThe Purifying Waters of Door-To-Door Book Distribution
After our taking a swim in the river along the gorge between Otaki and Napier in NZ, Ameyatma bathed me in the purifying waters of his door-to-door book distribution mission just before the sun went down. We knocked on about twenty doors and took turns doing the presentation of Srila Prabhupada's books. It is a bit inconceivable how sweet and gracious the people of Napier were. One lady, whose name is Storm, raced to beat us to the door and had it open before we got there. She was eager to chat with us and told us she already has all of...
read moreA Wealthy Beggar
Over the summer I've been traveling with book distributors from the Simhachalam temple in Germany. They distribute Srila Prabhupada's books in southern Germany and in Austria. One day I was in the center of St. Poelten, Austria. An older woman approached me with her hand out, begging for coins. Her skin was somewhat dark. She could have been a gypsy; Roma is the more politically correct term. Wherever I've been to distribute books, beggars are not uncommon. In Germany and Austria, some, like the lady who approached me, are from...
read moreBook Distribution in the Grand Canyon
On my way to Denver I went to see my old friend Ganapati Swami at the Grand Canyon. He's an unsung hero in our society, and also my siksa-guru for book distribution. He's been distributing books for the past 45 years. Not many devotees know about him because he stays mostly in the USA, going from college to college year after year for decades, often by himself. He's a diksa-guru but has stopped initiating; his interest is in reading Srila Prabhupada's books and in distributing them, which he does very well. Maharaja has a...
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