Sankirtan Stories
One of the many services of the internet I had another great day distributing Srila Prabhupada's books at West Virginia University in Morgantown, USA. I approached a young couple and said, "Please, my dear friends! I want you to see these books!" Upon taking them for inspection, the man said that he already had them. I was surprised and asked how they were acquired. He said that he had been searching for spiritual literature and that Srila Prabhupada's books were the best ones he had found. He bought them on Amazon. He had...
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Shaman Ananda It was another wonderful day of trying to be an instrument of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental book distribution. I was looking for the next recipient of Sri Caitanya’s mercy when a young man caught my eye. He looked like a South American shaman. I stopped him and offered a Bhagavad Gita As it is and Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1. Upon seeing the spiritual effulgence emanating from Prabhupada’s books he was visibly taken aback and excitedly said that he was just studying these books in his eastern philosophy class and...
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by Ananta Nitai Das I was out in a very rich area of Dublin called "Howth" a seaside town, every house has a long driveway and a boat parked to the side to complete the status image. At one particular house a man answered the door, he looked at me and said "I'm not interested." I said, "Look, this is a book written by a multimillionaire who gave up everything to live under a tree and write spritual books for the upliftment of mankind! You may ask, why would someone do that? Would you like to find out?" The...
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Once I was distributing Srila Prabhupada's books in a railway station in Pune. By Prabhupada's mercy, many people responded nicely. But one railway officer shouted very loudly at me, asking whether I had permission to sell the books in the station. I didn't have permission, and I was very new to book distribution, so I became fearful and apologized to the officer. He angrily told me that I cannot sell books inside the station, but I didn't want to leave, because I was meeting many people in one place. I was totally confused...
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by Madhumangala Dasa (South Africa) One Sunday in Dar es Salaam, Bhakta Deepak suggested we go visit a friend of his who was a top executive at Pepsi Cola. "Maybe we could interest him in Prabhupada's books," Deepak said. "I preached to him before, but had no luck. Maybe you'll do better." When we arrived the executive invited us into his apartment as Deepak introduced me to him and his wife and daughter. When he mentioned that he was from Bengal, we began to discuss Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. At one point he began...
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