Book Distribution Bus Party Part – 01
It is a common knowledge that Hindus and Muslims are not the best of friends. There is always tension simmering between these two communities wherever they stay close together. My experience is not any different either. But this village called Bhabhulgaon in District Akola of Maharashtra was a little different. It so happened that this guy was probing the ‘Bhagavad Gita As It Is’ with inquisitiveness. And then he asked his son to call another person from nearby house to have a look at the book. I asked him “Have you...
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I was walking near the Culver Hotel in Los Angeles, and I saw a woman on a bench, smoking (and looking freaked out). I showed her a Bhagavad-Gita. She said she could not sleep because she was sure there was a ghost in her hotel room. I said that this will solve the problem: These sacred mantras liberate ghosts. We chanted a mantra together from the second chapter. She was amazed. She had almost died eleven times, and she is used to seeing herself from outside her body. She is a bit ghostly herself. She...
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I traveled from Ahmed Nagar to Pune early one morning by bus, so I was chanting. By the time I completed my chanting, there were 20-25 minutes remaining for the bus to reach Pune. I thought I could try to distribute two Marathi Bhagavad-gitas that I was carrying all the way from Pune to A'Nagar & had not had any opportunity to distribute, as another book distributor had his BGs to show to all. I went from one seat to another, approaching one person and then another. Some said they had it. I tried to persuade them, then, to give their...
read moreDoor to Door Book Distribution
We had a door-to-door campaign in Pune India for the last ten days, which was an extremely satisfying experience. It's very encouraging to go home to home and meet many people who respond very positively to our book distribution. Some anecdotes . . . When my wife and I went to a house in Patang Plaza, a boy opened the door and called his mother. She came to the door with a Bhagavad Gita in her hand and told us that she'd recently gotten it from a friend and had started to read it. In fact, she was reading it when we knocked on her...
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I was distributing at Pierce College in the Los Angeles area the other day when a student came up to the book table. I showed him the illustrations and explained some philosophy. While I was speaking to him, another student arrived and listened to our conversation. When I asked the first student for a donation, he said he didn't have any money. I was going to give the book to him for free since he was interested and I have some sponsors for books, but then surprisingly, the student who arrived during our talk said, "I'll pay for...
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