Close Relationship with the Lord
When I just joined the spiritual movement I believed Prabhupada and spiritual authorities so much, therefore I did what they asked. That was my success in book distribution. Senior devotees helped me, I was praying to scriptures, to Prabhupada, and they made me their instrument. I felt that it was not me who distributes books. I felt it even more, seeing people reactions. Some of them cried, some of them were jolly, some very spiritual, etc. So different spiritual moods. Someone was afraid to take a scripture in his hands because of many...
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When I joined brahmacarini ashram actually I was the first lady to live there at that time (because Prabhupada completely convinced me) devotees told me to go with them on book distribution. So the first day I joined I went on sankirtan. I was distributing Prabhupada's books I have never read before! But I was reading them together with people on sankirtan. I approached them, opened the book and was reading to them. People listened and bought books. They were buying Prabhupada's words. Another way to distribute books is to...
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For several months, I had practically given up distributing Srila Prabhupada's books and even feeling connected to the spirit of sharing Krsna consciousness. Nothing prevented me from going out on books I just lost my enthusiasm. Usually, I would go alone, which probably had something to do with it. This is the one thing that definitely changed, having left the association of fellow monks, whose enthusiasm kept me bound to the spirited sharing of Krishna consciousness. Leaving their good company, I came to Toronto, where sankirtana and...
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by Minakshi-devi Dasi * Gujarati Garba Event * On Saturday, October 13th, we had the opportunity to do book distribution at the Ontario Soccer Centre, where there was a Garba Event. Imagine LOUD P-U-L-S-I-N-G LIVE MUSIC, with hundreds of people dancing with dandiya sticks and us, Srila Prabhupada's book distributors, trying to deliver these souls. The sankirtan warriors included Mayur Prabhu, Vijay Patel Prabhu, Radhapriya, and me. I had approached a couple of older men and started speaking to them and showing them the Krishna Book in...
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Dear Prabhus and Maharajas, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! This last week in the LA airport it had been really tough for me. For some reason the rest of the sankirtana team was doing well, but I was really struggling. Every day kept getting more and more difficult until Saturday came. On Saturday nobody would even talk to me. I was getting very frustrated and felt miserable. I was having the poignant realization of how I completely lack qualification to even attempt to engage in Sri Krishna's service....
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