Book Distribution & the Flute joins the Harinama on the Durban Beachfront, Promenade on Fridays, RSA
Book Distribution & the Flute joins the Harinam on the Durban Beachfront, Promenade Hare Krishna Dear Friends, Well Wishers, Countrymen, Vaishnavas & Iskcon Universe Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. "So the sadhus, they take the risk of becoming friendly and merciful to the fallen conditioned souls, and they preach the message of Godhead. Therefore their mercy is required. They are merciful by nature. By nature, they are merciful. One who is sadhu, one who is...
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I was on Queen st on a usual dreary Auckland rainy day when I stopped a young man who was without shoes and wearing shorts. Over a brief introduction I found out that he repairs boats for a living. I presented the Bhagavad Gita to him and was about to give my usual rundown on the contents when he stopped me in my tracks saying "Do you mind if I just read the back of this for a minute?" "Sure." I said and with great difficulty I stopped talking, waiting patiently in the cold, while he read through the contents on the back...
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After a week of book distribution with Bhrgupati Prabhu at the University of Oregon in Eugene, we traveled north to the Portland temple for the Sunday feast, after being on traveling sankirtan for about three weeks. At ISKCON Portland there was a kirtan, Bhrgupati gave a talk, and prasada was served. A local devotee, Parama Karuna Dasa, invited us to stay at his home for the next week. His family hosted us nicely and exhibited many good qualities of saintly Vaishnavas. His two sons, Gopal and Rama, are ten and eight years old, yet they are...
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Colonel Pant lived diagonally opposite and one house up the street from me in South India for the past four years. Besides neighborhood concerns like the erratic water supply, the garbage disposal problem and so on, we would talk about Indian and world affairs and other things, with me injecting a little philosophy now and then. Several times he had brought me atta, canned cheese and other things that were issued to him and his family from the canteen but were in excess of needs. His wife, a dour and unfriendly woman who even refused prasadam...
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Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Recently, I was in Estonia, where there are fifteen brahmacaris completely enthusiastic to distribute books and the holy name, and ten more devotees from other countries just joined them. Not long ago, they got a bus for traveling around Europe to distribute the mercy of Lord Caitanya. The deities of Jaganatha, Baladeva and Subhadra are the main part of this transendental adventure. But there is a problem: In Estonia and many European countries, it is...
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