Anger is the Foremost Enemy
by Yogindra Dasa I had an unusual experience once while distributing hard backBhagavatams on the street outside a post office in a small town in Sweden. A lady with a mentally- challenged daughter passed by, and the little girl grabbed the book I had tried to distribute to her mother. The girl adamantly refused to return the book to me, inspite of her mother’s repeated attempts. The mother had little choice but to ask me the price, which I quoted at the minimum BBT cost. A little later, in the distance I spotted a gentleman heading...
read moreU.S. Soldier Engages on Battlefield
My service is to be serving in the United States Army. Some people think this is not so favorable, but actually I find being on the battlefield to be a book distributors’ heaven. The other day I was invited to give a talk at a ‘prayer breakfast’. I agreed to do so, and Krishna inspired me with the idea to set up a book table, presenting only the Bhagavad-gita. I figured that since the Gita is spoken on a battlefield, that these soldiers would be able to relate to this book the best. After my presentation, I...
read morePhilosophy Means Searching for the Truth
Recently I was distributing in a shopping center in the Eastern part of Helsinki. It was a tough day, and later on I realized the reason it was so challenging was because I was trying to use different ‘tricks' to distribute and I was not really trying to surrender to Krishna. I decided to take a break and listened to a class by Bhurijana Prabhu. It was an excellent and inspiring class which helped me to understand Krishna consciousness is truly the perfection of life. I approached a lady and she took two books in no time. Then I got...
read moreShot in Action: On the Battlefront
by Partha-sarthi Dasa The weather is hot: 130F and 140F in my truck…danger at every step… I was out walking, to check out and refill my book rack and drop off some prasadam sent from some wonderful devotees, when all of a sudden explosions were heard. At first I thought it was nothing, but it got louder and closer… we were under a mortar attack. Quickly I ran into the closest bunker. As I got in, I noticed there were some soldiers there. I was smiling and right away started handing out cookies and books to all. They were so...
read moreToronto Sankirtan Story 2011 – EVERYONE Matters, Every BIT counts!
By Mahasundari Madhavi devi dasi At the end of 2010, the Toronto Sankirtan Team set an ambitious goal to distribute a minimum of 35,000 books during 2011. This seemed like a tall task given that it was more than three times the number of books distributed in the whole of 2009! But as Srila Prabhupada emphatically said, “Impossible is a word in a fool’s dictionary.” Devotees in Toronto truly imbibed that mood and endured extreme weather conditions, personal challenges and other difficulties to go out and distribute the mercy...
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