The Power of Brigupati Prabhu
Brigupati Prabhu, the grandfather Bhisma of Sankirtana (26 years of book distribution- almost all of which as full-time book distribution), who lives in New Dwarka and who goes to the LAX airport everyday to bless numberless souls with Srila Prabhupada's books, says something and that thing becomes true immediately: Several months ago, I was sitting with him in one of the seats in the United Airlines terminal, having lunch. In the middle of our samosa, he noticed a young man walking by. Brigupati Prabhu told me "go, run up to him and...
read moreA Nectar Concert in North Carolina
Last Saturday night Mathura Prabhu (a local devotee from the Hillsborough temple community), Bhakta Shoban from Mumbai and myself drove to Charlotte to try to distribute books at a large Rave concert. As we were driving, it was raining like anything. We got to the large parking lot early and by Krsna's Divine Grace, it suddenly stopped raining as soon as the first cars full of SWEET SWEET innocent young american teenagers started pulling in. For the next few hours it was completely nectarian: 95% of these kids were SO favorable,...
read moreBook Distribution Nectar from the US
I sold 2 books to 2 young lady students on the college street near Duke University (North Carolina)last Sunday. I invited them to come to the Siva Ratri festival that evening. They said "yes" and sure enough, they came that very evening. Garuda Prabhu was giving the lecture when they arrived. After it, one of the girls told me "you know, that man who gave the lecture tonight, he is my my Eastern religions professor at Duke University!! I couldn't believe it was him! I never knew he was a hare Krishna!" That same...
read moreMy Sankirtan Story and One More Thing… By ‘Happymonk’
MY SANKIRTAN STORY and ONE MORE THING… By 'Happymonk' (Bhakta Ricardo) Los Angeles Hare Krishna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. My sankirtan story: I was at TWA terminal and I see this fortysomething year old guy with his daughter (maybe about 10) and his son (around 6 or 7 years old) so I was kind of hesitant to stop them 'cause…well, parents just have this thing for being overprotective of their little possessions, especially when a sankirtana devotee approaches them at...
read moreThe Story of Srinavasa and Raja Biaham Biya
Dear devotees Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obesiances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hoping then some of you will be happy to hear and inspire by the, I send the following story from begin of book distributinon: "When Srinivasa Acarya, Dukhi Krsna dasa (later Syamananda Prabhu) and Narottama dasa Thakur were travelling from Vrndavana to Bengal with books given to them by Srila Jiva Goswami, they were robbed at night at Visnupura by Raja Biaham Biya (the thief king). He had his thieves spying along the road as the party of...
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