Sankirtan Bliss
Zagreb, Croatia Hare Krishna, dear devotees! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Lord Caitanya's most wonderful Sankirtana movement! Today I'm very happy because I had a chance to be an instrument in distributing Bhagavad-gitas! At first I wasn't so enthusiastic to distribute and was thinking, "Maybe because today is my birthday Krishna will cheer me up somehow at the start." And look! In one minute, before I even managed to turn my mp3 player off and take the books from my bag, there appeared two ladies...
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Hare Krsna Prabhus. Arriving at Westfield mega mall due to rain moving me on from a carpark, I found Lord Caitanya had people awaiting Prabhupada's books inside the mall. Roy was one of them. When I put the SB1.1 into his hand he asked me if I was a Hare Krsna, Hare Rama. Knowing that only Indian's refer to us in this way I asked him if he had an Indian wife. "Wow how did you know?" he replied, "But no, were divorced!" He told me his horrific experience of being married at the age 23 to an Indian lady who demanded...
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By Lord Caitanya's and Srila Prabhupada's grace, I did book distribution last Saturday, Ekadasi in Zurich. So we went out on empty stomachs in the morning for a couple of hours. This tapasya gave us an edge over the sense-gratifiers; kept us jolly, no matter how many people didn't stop. A sharp young man in the army who's into Shaolin monks bought the ISO. Meanwhile, Bhakta Daniel sold Mahabharata to a middle-aged woman and her husband. As we returned by foot to our Langental center, we stopped a young man who happened to be...
read moreStories from the Marathon in Finland
It was the 22nd December, and I wanted to distribute 100 books. I had stayed the whole day in a freezing cold parking lot that was connected to Ideapark, a huge shopping mall. It was nine P.M. and I had distributed 91 books. I thought to myself, "I am so tired I cannot go on anymore. Tomorrow I will distribute a hundred." I got on the car and started driving to the accommodation. While in Lempaala, I thought, "Maybe I could try the local pub. I have done it sometime before; let's see." When I parked the car, I silently...
read morePatching a heart broken by love
There was a slight drizzle in Toronto, and I was praying that somehow I get to render service to Prabhupada and deepen my relationship. I was thinking about how it would happen. A man came out of the Internet cafe. I tried to speak with him. He was extremely distressed. He told me he was very upset. I asked him what had happened, as he looked like he was choking. He said that he was in love and the woman would not have him. He was shaken up and depressed. "Why did she reject you?" I asked. "She thinks I don't have enough...
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