Appreciation for Srila Prabhupada.
Dear Navina prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Today we realised the appreciation people feel for reading Srila Prabhupada's books and appreciation for his mission. I visited one congregation member. She is from Malaysia. Herself very devoted her husband not at all interested. She showed me her library of books and she must have had about 30 of Srila Prabhupada's books. She has read them all and she happily accepted the offer to purchase a full set of Bhagavatam and later a set of Caitanya...
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Please accept my humbled obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In continuum… on the grueling 'Warped Tour' schedule it's hard for me to contemplate the significance or insignificance of our activities while frantically driving hundreds of miles between venues. Luckily we are doing this for God and the nectar comes along as a special bonus otherwise I would have with all sense and purpose turned into a pumpkin by now. Therefore with no further ado, the following rapturous escapades take place at concerts from Virginia...
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Pamho agtSP Last night on SKP I met a woman from Australia. I stopped her and put a book in her hands but before I could say anything about the book and why I was handing it to her, she handed it back. She said she was tired from flying and short of time and with many apologies she hurried off towards her gate. About 30 minutes later I was still distributing and I saw the woman again. She had come back and was watching me from a few yards away as I distributed a book to a family headed for the Philippines. She saw me give them a book and them...
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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I began and completed this writing yajna today. It's a day off for us during our extremely intense schedule. Therefore please forgive any mistakes I may have made as I have no time to refine all I have written at present. Thank you. What does it mean to become a devotee? Take the lofty example of Srila Prabhupada and see one who has put aside all personal desires to dedicate his life to simply bringing others up and out of the gutter of material consciousness. It takes a...
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Pamho agtsp I was distributing one day and I noticed that one business man was watching me. After I finished talking with a young couple he came over and said, "Can I have one of those books? I'm a business man and I travel a lot. In the past three days I have been to five airports in five different cities, and in each place one of your members stopped me and offered me a book. First I got angry and refused it, second time I just said 'no', then I started to become more curious about what are you people doing, and I looked at...
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