Siddhivinayak Book Stall
On specific days Rakesh Prabhu, Mohan Prabhu and their IYS small group puts up a stall at siddhivinayak. Here is one wonderful story, Krishna Tvam Akinchana Gochara : It was Gita Jayanti Tuesday Day of Ambedkar Jayanti . Devotees warned Mohan dont do much pushing on B.Gita. Situation may become tensed. Mohan Prabhu went to the Siddhivinay Temple at the stall as he regularly goes before his office (in Mahalaxmi). He got bored at the stall as not much was happening so he now approached people standing outside...
read moreReading and Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s Books
Recently, while reading the Bhagavad-gita before going out on book distribution at a local university in LA, I read these two sentences from the purport to 2.47: "One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action. Thus he is the enjoyer or the sufferer of the result of such actions." So while on book distribution I meditated on this reality and prayed to Krsna that I be allowed to just work for Him without attachment to the result. Due to this meditation, so many people were taking books — it was...
read moreNavi Mumbai Book Marathon
Vamsidhar Prabhu and his group of devotees are opportunity seekers. Wherever there is a big event in navi mumbai they are all there – BIG GANG of Book distributors – Till now they have done 35 S.B. Sets and many more standing orders . 5 C.C. set , and 2000 B.G. Pls read this amazing story – “Police vehicle suspects Vamsidhar p as smuggler.” One fine day H.G Vamsidhar P was driving his vehicle completely loaded with S.P. Books. He crossed the toll naka and a police van started...
read moreAlways Take Books with You
VANCOUVER–I didn’t think I would get to distribute books today because I had Nitai to take care of (8 yrs old), but I put a Gita and some medium books in a bag, just in case Krishna wanted to send me a sincere soul. We were walking around Canadian Tire when a young woman approached me about signing up for some kind of credit card. I politely declined while forgetting that I even had books with me, when suddenly I found myself calling, “Wait! Wait!” She came back, so I handed her...
read moreMedicine in the Form of a Flyer
It was Halloween night and people excited to party were running here and there in ghastly costumes. The train tracks at a certain metro station in Edmonton, Canada were lonely and only a few people walked by periodically. I thought "Srila Gurudeva, I never thought I'd be in this obscure corner of the world. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to give others the chance to read Srila Prabhupada's books." In a dimly-lit corner of the outdoor platform stood a middle-aged lady. Hardly any of the young people were showing any...
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