At the back door was a preacher like us
It was a nice ending at De Afghanan Kabob House, in Freemont, where we couldn’t enter the front part of the restaurant because the restaurant was still closed. So we tried the back door, and there we met two ladies who were talking outside. One lady seemed interested in the word yoga. We told her that we’d ccome back when the store opened. When we returned, I tried to distribute “a saptarishi set.” The interested lady, Wajma Zorrila, is a Irani Muslim, but she has strong faith in the teachings of yoga and Bhagavad-gita. When we told her...
read moreA construction worker is inspired by Prabhupada’s books
Gopal Champu prabhu recalls: Super sweet guy named Zam from Brooklyn. He ran into the Harinam about a year ago and took some books from us. Since then he’s been reading Prabhupada’s books and chanting “Hare Krishna” daily. He put a Jagannath sticker that we had given him on his work helmet for good luck and it’s been there for a year now! He’s working construction in the area where we’ve been distributing books for the past week and he’s been seeing us regularly. I’ve been talking to him and planting the seed for him to get a Mahat tattva. He...
read moreSandy gets the mercy
Mahotsaha Prabhu recalls: Really nice lady named Sandy from Baltimore. She saw us walking into a grocery store with some books in our hands and came up to ask if she could get a few of them! She’s a kundalini yoga instructor and likes to read spiritual books so we told her we’ll meet her outside with some very special books! We went to the car, took a “Srimad Bhagavatam” set out and showed her the set when she came out to meet us! It turns out her husband received a “Bhagavad Gita as it is” from devotees in the 1970’s and she’s also read it....
read moreThe Hare Krsna movie does it again
Recent encounter in Union Sqaure NY. I meet this nice guy named Rob, he came over to the table and was really appreciative of everything we were doing and told me he had all of Prabhupada’s books. I became interested and asked how he had gotten them and what got him started. Then he told me, “two years ago my friend invited me to go see the Hare Krishna Movie, I was so impressed with this movement that after that I began chanting and attending the temple programs.” I told him I had a special set of books that throughly...
read moreFrom Janananda Maharaja our ever-youthful Swami
LAST DAY OF MARATHON – DECEMBER 31st LAST DAY OF 2019 LAST CHANCE TO DISTRIBUTE SRILA PRABHUPADA’S BOOKS THIS YEAR In France, this month, we have distributed around 3500 books so far- AH! but that does not include many of our devotees around the country – this is just amongst the devotees in New Mayapura and Paris. And it is interesting to note that the devotees from New Mayapura are only 10 book points behind the devotees from Paris at this stage, with one day to go. We intend to distribute as late as we can today,...
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