Book Distribution in Sri Lanka
Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Jayatah Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We were on traveling sankirtan in Vavuniya, the northern province of Sri Lanka, where until three years ago the civil war was raging. Although now the situation has calmed down, the police are still patrolling every corner. This place is famous because it's where most of the Tamil Tigers are imprisoned. This part of Sri Lanka was cut off for many years from the rest of the island; therefore the Hare Krishna devotees are not very well known....
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Dear Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! Recently on Queen Street central in Auckland New Zealand came a familiar face. A regular experience on Sankirtan, now to work out who he is?! As we talked our conversation three months back became again clear in my mind. Sarav a young Nepalese business teacher was smart and thoughtful. When we'd met we had discussed deeply, but realising he wasn't going to take a Gita this day I gave him a flyer to our center and asked if we could continue our...
read moreJust see the effect of Srila Prabhupada’s books
I am so much grateful that you have enjoyed studying my books. Many young intelligent persons such as yourself are studying these books in the colleges and universities all over the world. Actually anyone who tries to understand these books will become a great realized devotee of Lord Krsna gradually. The original potency of the sastra remains in these books because I have not added or opinionated anything of my own. I have simply presented the scriptures such as Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam as they are. Therefore just see the effect...
read moreSrila Prabhupada’s books are so potent, they sell themselves
One cold winter day during the marathon in Vancouver Canada, I started out with enthusiasm, but after a few hours of rejections, I started to feel like I was wasting my time. It got so bad that I stopped my usual way of approaching people and just stood there kind of mumbling at people as they briskly ran past me to get out of the cold weather. Eventually, I saw this fellow walking towards me. He was amongst a large group of people and had his head down. As he walked by, I held up the book and kind of mumbled something. I didn't even...
read moreMalawi Africa discovers Prabhupada’s books – Part 02
One of the most amazing encounters was this family of five who came and started looking at all the books. They looked intelligent and aristocratic. Father, mother and three kids in their early teens. I was just meditating that if a family like this took interest it would be really good for our movement here as they seemed highly placed in society. Then while I was explaining to them about the books I saw all members of the family picking up and reading a book from the table and they looked quite absorbed. The father looked really surprised at...
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