The Best Birthday Present
This is about how the biggest book distributor in the USA, Bhakta Jaya Khush, came to Krsna consciousness. At his tenth birthday party, someone gave him as a present: Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita As It Is. At the time he thought, "Who has the nerve to give me a book for my birthday?" Ten years later, he's a music producer traveling around with a famous musician. This musician is quoting the Bhagavad Gita to Jay Khush, who's shocked that a famous African-American is quoting the book of his religion to him (he was born...
read moreBook Distribution is sooo Sweet
After a wonderful seminar by HG Radhika Raman Prabhu, it was so enlivening to go door-door to distribute sets. Inspired by the lecture, Jamuna Mataji took a set for her cafe. Then we went in an area where no one wanted to accept a Gita, but we met one Chinese lady who happily took Gita and a Chinese book. She also learned the Maha mantra and she chanted in her own sweet way saying, " Hale Krishna". We met two families who took SB. One family we met, she was a doctor and her two sons were so inquisitive about the pictures in the...
read moreBy being instruments we are part of the whole symphony
One day, I forgot to pray before doing book distribution. And no books were going out. Suddenly, I remembered and offered my prayers to Srila Prabhupada and asked for his blessings. And the books started going out. Prabhupada showers his unconditional and immediate reciprocation upon souls desiring to be instruments in spreading Lord Chaitanya's mission. At times, we think we are the doers, but then we are made to realise that we're just instruments of the Lord's will. Entering into a prayerful mood before performing any...
read moreMuslim extremist takes a book
Krishna's mercy is powerful. I met a Muslim extremist on a college campus in Southern California. I showed him the Bhagavad Gita and explained the science for a minute or two. Unfortunately, he threw the Bhagavad Gita back at me and flatly refused it. He began to shout, "This is bogus!" I asked if he followed the Islamic tradition, and he said, "Yes, Allah is the only God!" Krishna gave me intelligence at that moment. Instead of lashing back at him and defending the supremacy of the Bhagavad Gita, I countered him with...
read moreIncredible Experience of Book Distribution by Mayapur’s youth
Hare Krishna, dear devotees! My name is Radha, I’m 19 years old and I am a student in my final year at Sri Mayapur International School. I want to share with you my incredible experience of book distribution in London this summer. I hope that it will please the senior devotees and reassure them that book distribution is still alive and well. And I hope it will encourage all the devotees of my age to give it a try. Here is how it started: for a long time I had wanted to feel myself like a real, active preaching brahmacarini from...
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