The Most voracious Tongue is cause of getting Bhagavad Gita
I was attending my son's waterpark outing with his class in Vancouver when I overhead one of the other mothers talking about how she couldn't stop eating some chocolate she'd bought the day before. She was mad at herself because she had no self-control. Later, by Krsna's arrangement, she ended up in a chair beside me, so I told her that I overhead her conversation and that in the Bhagavad-gita it says that of all the senses the tongue is the hardest to control. We talked back and forth about this, and so I told her that the...
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Nityananda das from Oporto, Portugal, sent me this appreciation of book distrbution, and it is so beautiful that I thought to share it with you. Hare Krishna. Your servant, Giriraj Swami Dear Guru Maharaja, To continue book distribution I have to regulate myself in terms of having time to chant my rounds properly and read, rest, and eat nicely, and this is very good for me. No other activity can help me to regulate my life. Dear Guru Maharaja, book distribution is like a therapy for me. Every day I go out on the streets I feel as if I am...
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by Sastra-krit Dasa (Los Angeles) I was distributing in downtown LA when two guys walked toward me. They were tall, with long flowing blonde hair, blue eyes, and tight T-shirts. They stopped when I said, "Excuse me. I'm stopping all the really koooool-looking guys today." After stopping, one of them said with a serious face, looking me straight in the eyes: "You know, we're trying to look like Jesus Christ." I was disturbed that after a tough day on sankirtan I had run into some born-again Christians. Still,...
read moreWhy you all Look so Happy..?
Devotees put up the stall at 6 pm to 10.30 pm at Malad Railway Station Every day they are distributing more than 35 Books. One Young Girl came to the Book table , She asked Devotees ” Why you all look so Happy. Do you people get paid ? ” Devotee answered – we don’t get paid . we are doing it for Srila Prabhupadas Pleasure. She was so amazed took 11 Bhagavad Gita’s and thanked. Srila Prabhupada ki jay!!! on Gita Jayanti day – Malad Devotees under guidance of Sridama Prabhu...
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Recently on the occasion of the Ganesha festival Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty launched the distribution of a special edition of BTG on Lord Ganesha. Priced attractively at Rs. 5/- and available in three languages, the edition is meant for mass distribution. In Jan-Feb, the special low-priced issue of BTG on Lord Shiva also met with high level of success. Caitanya Ananda Prabhu, who regularly distributes books in the local trains recalls: I often meet the same people who have taken books from me and I invite them to the...
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