Another time bomb
It was hot summer day in May 2003. I was preparing for medical entrance exam and was completely exhausted by the long hours I had put. Add to it the tremendous anxiety about carrier and future. I desperately wanted to read some inspiring book, which would give me some peace of mind. I started searching books on the shelf. In the corner was Bhagavad-gita As It Is. It had been kept on my book shelf for nearly ten years. I opened it and began to read. I realized that every verse in the Gita was related to me and the Gita had...
read moreSomething amazing
A Christian couple was asking me lots of questions, and this curiousteenager passing by also wanted to join our conversation. At the end, theChristian couple prayed for me and left without taking any books. The boy,however, was impressed with the Krishna philosophy he heard and wanted tobuy books. His mom came out of a shop, and I congratulated her for raising such a niceson. She then told me something amazing. She said that when she was pregnant with this boy, she happened to drivepast the Atlanta Hare Krishna temple, where a huge festival...
read moreTwo types of mercy for one customer
It’s a dream coming true. While distributing books, I wanted to distributeprasad and cultivate the favorable customers. The wonderfulsoul in the attached photo came for lunch a few times, and then we invitedher to our kirtan events. She came to a few kirtans, and this evening afterkirtan she agreed to take home a full set of Srimad Bhagavatams. She is sweet andfavorable to Krishna consciousness. –ys, Shastrakrt...
read moreNice Sankirtan experiences in Dallas Texas
Last week I gave a Bhagavad Gita to Andy, a man wearing a Greatful DeadT-shirt. I told him that the Greatful Dead played with Srila Prabhupada inSan Francisco. He scraped up a couple of dollars in change and promised togive me more later. Today at Whole Foods I was getting rung up for a pile oforganic ginger, spinach, the most expensive butter, and an eleven dollargallon of Kalona whole milk. Then Andy comes up and tells the checkout guyto let me have it all at no charge. It turns out that Andy is the assistantmanager of Whole Foods in Allen....
read moreA devotee professor distributing books to his students
by Garuda Das For more than thirty years, I have been teaching at the college and university levels of education. And during each one of those years, I have required students to purchase Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, and then read large portions of it for my courses. Well, during the pandemic, it is no exception. In the picture below, I have 100 books that I will be selling to students (at my cost, to make it easy), and for most of them, it will be the first time they will have encountered the authentic words of the Spiritual...
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