Shop to Shop Sankirtana
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! This last weekend Bhrgupati Prabhu and I went to the San Francisco area of California to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. The first day we went to downtown Santa Cruz. At first I was a little bit skeptical, I had never gone shop to shop before. I went into the first shop with Bhrgupati to watch how he did it. He approached the people the same as he would anywhere else, but he would approach the manager or owner first, then the employees, then the...
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Please accept our humble obeisances, Jaya Srila Prabhupada! On our Sri Narasimha marathon we were traveling in central and eastern Finland, in areas called Savo and Karjala. Different flavors of tamo-guna, mixed with a pinch of rajo-guna. Savo especially has a reputation for being a heavy place for distribution. One day we were in Kuopio, the main city of Savo. The fact that I needed to drive our car back and forth to the repair shop didn’t make things easier. We had a 250km drive in the evening, so we had to stop a little early. I...
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This happened in Aurangabad, India . . . . Rasayatra Prabhu, one of our enthusiastic brahmacaris, loves to go out practically every day to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. It's now the hottest part of the year, and he distributes at railway stations and on trains, as these are the most crowded places because of summer vacation. One day he made announcements on a train and was showing books to everyone. He was doing quite well. He noticed someone at the door watching him. Most of the time TTE (Travelling Ticket Examiners) are...
read moreSankirtan Stories form Santa Monica College CA USA
Hare Krsna, I had an unusual day on book distribution recently. I have had plenty of dull days but this was different. I feel very grateful to Krsna. I could only stay for three hours but so much happened during that time… First a girl who started out by photographing all of the pictures in the books as I showed them to her. She loved the pictures. Then she came back later and said she wanted to read the books so she bought three of them and gave a nice donation. I took her e-mail address. Next came a guy who said he read Civilization...
read moreLord Nrsimhadeva’s Mercy
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! This recent Nrsimha Caturdasi was a very auspicious time for book distribution. I had to be back at the Los Angeles temple by one o'clock for the festival, so that morning I was begging Lord Nrsimhadeva to engage me. During japa I was begging that since I could only go out for three hours that uses me to distribute twice as many books. As soon as I got out of the car and started walking towards the airport I could feel His extreme mercy. The first...
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