Srila Prabhupadas Brand by Mathura Kisor Dasa
Recently the congregation from CBD Belapur (a suburb of Mumbai) beganharinama-sankirtana after the weekly evening program. I was ecstatic as book distribution becomes easier during the harinama-sankirtana. But the first day I was thinking, “Will it be a good idea as it is already 8 pm and people are in mode of ignorance? Will anyone take books now?” I heard my heart’s voice, “Try to serve Srila Prabhupada.” I fought hard to overcome the lethargy and fear and prayed to Srila Prabhupada,...
read moreThe 2010 Prabhupada Marathon and World Enlightenment Day
By Vijaya das Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. How the Prabhupada Marathon evolved is interesting. The most successful three days in book distribution history up to 1972 took place at the end of that year in Los Angeles. Three days before Christmas, the Los Angeles devotees distributed more than 17,000 pieces of literature! Because they distributed the most books ever just before Christmas, it became known as the Christmas Marathon. The next year it became a ten-day marathon. Before too...
read moreA Methodist Reverend Appreciates Srila Prabhupada’s Books
By Bhakta Hemant & Bhaktin Aditi One late Friday afternoon we received a call from Reverend Ntombe, the leader of one of the Methodist churches in Pretoria. He said, “I was told you are from a society that is giving books to libraries. Could you donate some books for our church library?” The reverend went on to explain that he was starting a library for his church’s congregation and wanted as many quality books as possible. That sounded like a really nice thing for a religious leader to do. He explained that a member of...
read moreGood Character Saves a Soul
While speaking earlier this week with a boy who's recently taken up bhakti-yoga, I realized how important purity and Vaisnava character are for distributing Srila Prabhupada's books and inspiring people to take up devotional service. The boy was named Anchal. He had recently come to New Zealand from India, supposedly to further his studies but actually to meet his guru. He related to me how four months after his arrival here he had met a brahmacari distributing books on the street in Auckland. He had thought to himself, "If this...
read moreAnother Soul on his Way to Krsna…..
We had just gotten back to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada, where the Halifax brahmacaris are based while traveling around the province with His Holiness Bhaktimarga Swami. We were in Halifax for the first time in two months to have a Sunday Feast with the devotees and friends of Krishna. When we arrived for the program, there was a young man whom I had met on the street some months back. The day I met him, as he recalled, he was in a particularly good mood and decided to stop and talk with me to see what I was doing and to be a nice...
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