Book Distribution by the Congregation
By Vijaya das Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was recently asked by my Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to go to Silicon Valley (near San Francisco) to see how Vaisesika Prabhu has stimulated an explosion of book distribution there. Svavas Prabhu was hoping I could learn how to duplicate their success in New Dvaraka. I was quite impressed, to say the least. One weekend a month, all the devotees in the congregation go out to distribute books. During the month I visited they went out a...
read moreFinal Results for Bhaktivinoda Thakura MSF of June 2008
Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was recently asked by my Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to go to Silicon Valley (near San Francisco) to see how Vaisesika Prabhu has stimulated an explosion of book distribution amongst the congregation there. Svavas Prabhu was hoping I could learn how to duplicate their success in New Dvaraka. I was quite impressed, to say the least. One weekend a month, all the devotees in the congregation go out to distribute books. During the month I visited they went...
read moreBook Distribution in Book Fair, Surat(India)
Hare Krsna, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, In the first week of February'08, a book fair was held in Surat, where we congregational devotees also put a book stall of books of Srila Prabhupada. It is really rejoicing to say that in the 80 hours that the fair lasted, we were able to sell approximately 4000 books, that is every 1.20 minutes we sold one of Srila Prabhupada's books. That was all possible due to the grace of Srila Prabhupada and the Vaishnava acharyas. Two months back in the BG marathon we received some Bhagavad...
read moreA Free Man
I was at Newyork Airport, in New Jersey, selling books alone in 1987. I was having a bad afternoon. About 5.30 P.M. it was difficult to even stop people. I started to become a little desperate, because for twenty minutes I could not stop one single person. Then I started to pray to Krishna to help me (it works every time). One Indian man come out of nowhere and walked right toward me at a very slow pace, though the other people around us were going very fast. I showed him the large Gita and said: Bhagavad-gita! He answered loud and clear: How...
read moreOne Day of Book Distribution on Melrose Avenue
Melrose Avenue is probably the most degraded Avenue in LA, but it is also the best place in LA to meet people receptive to Krsna consciousness. It was a hot June day, so I found a place in the shade. To my surprise, the store I was working in front of was called "Maya." I looked into the window and saw it was a gift store. I saw some pictures of Siva and Ganesh, and sure enough there was one of Maya Devi herself. Before people would "go into Maya" I would distribute a book to them, and when they came "out of...
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