Family Sankirtana
At present I'm traveling with my wife and eight-month-old baby girl. It is a wonderful experience going to every town and village and finding many people interested in Krsna consciousness. We decided we wanted to do a trip from Sydney to Cairns in the far north of Queensland Australia, and then further north to Cape Tribulation, and then back to Sydney, spanning two months. We packed the van with as many soft- and hardcover books as we could squeeze in and left just enough room for our possessions. We managed to get about two thousand...
read moreThe Perfect Escape
Dear devotees, Recently I had the great fortune of having my four wisdom teeth pulled out. I went to the dentist in dhoti and kurta, and all the dental staff were really favorable, so I invited them for the Sunday Feast at our city sankirtan ashram and promised to bring some books for them on my next visit. One week later I had to go in for a check-up. I was back on sankirtan but taking it easy, and when I went for my appointment I took some books for the staff as I had promised. I entered the surgery reception, reported to the secretary, and...
read moreA Christian Pastor Becomes a Devotee
About a month and a half back I posted a story about how when I was going shop to shop in Lilongwe, Malawi, a pastor who worked as a manager in a car showroom bought four books from me and expressed interest in buying a Bhagavad Gita later. Well, I went back to see him periodically to find out how he was doing as he read through the books. He went through them very methodically — highlighting, underlining, and marking many sections. He would ask me many questions about what he had read. About a month back I sold him the Bhagavad Gita,...
read moreKrishna Is All Attractive
This is the third year ISKCON Hong Kong participated in the Hong Kong Book Fair. One evening during the fair a lady visited our booth and I struck up a conversation with her. I learned she was quite fond of religion and was a vegetarian, so I recommended that she purchase the Bhagavad Gita. She refused, claiming she was too busy to read, and then left with her two full shopping bags. After a little while she returned and started chatting with other devotees. Then she told our booth manager that she would take the Gita if we would give her a...
read moreAn Appeal for the Book Distributors
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In 2002 the GBC asked me to be the minister of book distribution. Since then I have been traveling around the world trying to encourage book distribution. One of the obstacles to book distribtuon that I often see as I travel in the third-world countries, and sometimes in first- and second-world countries as well, is that many temples cannot afford books or vehicles. This letter is an appeal to you for donations to the book distributors around the world....
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