Sankirtan Story
Hare Krsna, A devotee in New Zealand has just received his masters degree in accounting, based on his thesis 'Spiritual Accounting,' (accounting at the masters and PhD levels means not number crunching, but dealing with the precepts underlying the entire accounting system). The new wave of accounting attacks the old school of concerning itself with only fiscal profit/loss. The new school says accounting should include ecological, physical health, and inner happiness evaluations–not just the bucks. This devotee presented his...
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Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This is in response to Mishra Bhagavan's nice stories of his experience doing door to door preaching. Recently I heard Mother Akuti tell this story, Srila Prabhupada was in his garden in Los Angeles reading Krsna Book with his disciples. They were reading about Lord Krsna steeling butter and getting into trouble. Mother Yasoda chastized Krsna, but He was so naughty that he and his friends passed urine on the clean floor. The devotees were all laughing...
read moreThe Nectar of Door to Door Book Distribution
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. Al glories to Srila Prabhupada. Sri Rangavati Dasi and I decided to try some door to door sankirtan while we were in Dallas over the weekend. Srila Prabhupada wrote in his books 90 times that devotees go door to door to spread the teachings of Lord Krsna. Compared to public places I find door to door to be slow. Although less books get sold in the same amount of time, there is a charming painlessness to this approach. You do not have to stop people. They come to the door. We chose a block near...
read moreBus Sankirtan from Madhumangala dasa
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to your Guru Maharaj, all glories to our most dearly beloved Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga, all glories to the sankirtan devotees of the Lord! Our bus from Johannesburg to Durban, (I had gone to join the sankirtan devotees from Pretoria and Lenasia, to distribute books at the 3-day Lucky Fish Music Festival), which was scheduled to depart at 11 am, after nearly 3 hours finally arrived. The waiting passengers began to get extremely frustrated as they...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 24
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I haven't written any journal in sometime due to a serious illness requiring me to be admitted to Stanford hospital. I am slowly recovering and think I jumped to fast into traveling. So i have slowed down a little and am recovering now. Things with the Army are moving along. Everyone is really pushing for my release, and as it looks we are 90% finished with the military. Now I don't have a job and my supervisor told me to stay at home and chant...
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