The Nectar of Book Distribution in Bharat Varsa
This year in India I had my most ecstatic time. First off, usually I don't distribute books in Mayapur during the festival, because there's so much going on. But upon seeing so many book distributors this year, I got inspired to distribute. Interesting: there were so many devotees, so what I found was that I had to look for the people who didn't have beadbags and didn't wear dhotis and kurtas. They had to be wearing pants and shirt and no tilak. It was pretty easy. I would just ask, " Do you like Krsna?" They would...
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My wife, Saswati Radhike Devi Dasi, and I were distributing Bhagavad-gita one evening near our home in Baguiati in Kolkata. We set up our tables and Srila Prabhuapada's books as usual. We were very eager to distribute books that day. We started announcements regarding Srila Prabhuapada's books. A few people took a Bhagavad-gita. Suddenly we met a lady and her small daughter. When my wife asked the lady to get a Gita, she said that she will contact us later. She said she is initiated and that her gurudeva gave her the name of an author...
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A girl sitting with her friends in a bus responded to the offer of a Gita: "I have a Bhagavad-gita at home, I don’t need another one." I asked whether she had Bhagavad-gita As It Is. She arrogantly asked, "What does it matter? They're all the same." I replied, "Well, all buses are the same, but you are sitting only on this bus." She said that this is because she had to go to the place where this bus goes and the other buses, though they look like, don’t go there. "Precisely!" I replied....
read morePrayers Answered By Krishna
I am doing four days of traveling book distribution every week. Last week we were in southwest England, doing the coastal towns that sankirtan devotees have not regularly visited for ten to fifteen years. In one town I met an old English gentleman who told me he had just finished reading Gandhi's biography and was praying that he could acquire a Bhagavad-gita. I showed him the book and the quote by Gandhi on the back, and he nearly broke down in tears. He was convinced that God had arranged our meeting. He offered a £50 donation and...
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I was on sankirtan with Mangal-Aarti on a bitterly cold winter afternoon at Eaton Centre and had spoken to a few people and was just recuperating from the snow and rain a little, standing in the shade. A man walked by and I asked him,"Have you tried yoga or meditation, sir?" He stopped for a while, as I showed him some pictures, but I could tell he wasn't going to buy a book. He walked away, but from the corner of my eye I spotted a thin, tiny man with an old, torn jacket and a little hat and a cigarette in his hand. He pointed...
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