Monthly Sankirtana Festivals Turn Little into Lots
By Madhava Smullen In Silicon Valley’s Hare Krishna community, a new book distribution effort is turning into a juggernaut that could be the future of ISKCON’s outreach. When the predominantly householder community decided in 2004 to find a new way to fit book distribution into their nine-to-five lives, they created a “Monthly Sankirtana Festival.” Their motto? “Many people doing a little bit.” The program grew gradually, but attracted more and more devotees with its unique approach. No one was...
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Hare Krsna, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We would like to let devotees know about how successful is the Sastra dana program here in Radhedesh, Belgium. Mother Rupa Manjari and her son-in-law Mahaprabhu prabhu are taking care of it and in only two months they got very nice results. There are many visitors coming almost every day here and four displays have been installed in the Reception, in the Bakery, in the Cafeteria and in the Guesthouse. Only small books are being distributed and because still there...
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During the December marathon at Daulatabad, Aurangabad . . . by Rajiev Puri. Our spot for selling books, a book stall, at Daulatabad (a tourist spot en route to the famous Ellora Ccaves) was the same as last year's. But the vendor crowd around there was unhappy to see us there. When the official in charge came and objected to our stall being put up at the entrance of the fort and asked us to remove it immediately, the vendors supported him and asked us to remove the stall from that spot. They suggested putting it at some far-off spot....
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Stories about our last week in Finland . . . I approached a lady sitting in the car and showed her The Science of Self-realization. She put it aside immediately and took a big bible into her hand. "I already have a book. I'm on the way to a Bible-group meeting, and I work for the Lutheran church," she informed me. Good, I said happily. Then you can also take one to your priest there! She was suprised, looking like a big question mark – WHY? I explained to her that my mother also used to go to similar meetings. Really! she...
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ISKCON’s Prison Ministry traces its roots all the way back to 1962, when Srila Prabhupada visited Tihar Prison in New Delhi. “If you give me the chance to speak to all the members of the Jail,” he wrote to superintendent Sri Puri, “It is quite possible for me to turn them into ideal characters.” Yet it wasn’t until 1988 that Candrasekhara Dasa established the official ISKCON Prison Ministry in the USA, as an outlet for householders to preach without having to leave their homes; all they had to do was write...
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