Caring for People After Sankirtan
By Tejagaurangi Devi Dasi From: http://namahatta.org Anakadundubhi Prabhu, a disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami, is one of the most famous sankirtan devotees in ISKCON. Prabhu frequently tops the sankirtan list, ranking as the number one book distributor in the world. He lives with his wife Caitanya-lila in Villaggio Hare Krishna temple in northern Italy. Both devotees have dedicated their lives to full-time sankirtan service for more than 10 years. Their shining faces, gentle smiles and determined spirit of show the nature of genuine...
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By Vasudeva Datta das Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Recently we were doing sankirtan in my hometown in Slovenia. Before going there I had to go through a strenuous purification of my mind. And my false ego was flipping out: “What will happen when you will meet this relative and that professor or exgirlfriend?! How will all these people react when they see you in this strange dress selling books?! I preached to myself that this was all nonsense and the mental platform. Actually, I was...
read moreSankirtana Musings Or Praise Among Friends
By Satyaraja Dasa (Steven J. Rosen) Associate editor for Back to Godhead Magazine and founding editor, The Journal of Vaishnava Studies Today, when I think of Sankirtana and by Sankirtana I mean the process in which men and women go out and distribute spiritual literature or prasadam to people in general I must admit that my opinions about this singularly transcendent activity have come full circle. Initially, as a young devotee, I saw Sankirtana as spiritual activity par excellence, and there is much scripture to support this conclusion....
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By Dayananda Das Most of us are familiar with Prabhupada’s statements about the importance of book distribution: “It is my foremost desire.” “It is your duty; try your best.” “It is pleasing and inspiring to me.” Interestingly, in Melbourne, he also said, “Selling books is ‘Krishna anxiety’ spiritual anxiety.” Regarding a society without sankirtana yajna, he commented that there will be “scarcity” and “no happiness.” He wrote that varnasrama-dharma (the...
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Experiences while distributing Srila Prabhupada's books to others. A DREAM COMETRUE This story took place in March this year in a simple nondescript typical Indian village in Maharashtra. Travelling by our sankirtana bus, we toured different places and distributed many of Srila Prabhupada's books. During the day we would set up stall or distribute books door to door. In the evening we would ask some farmer for permission to stay in his field overnight and use the water facility. People always agreed. One day,...
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