“A Higher Taste” engages a student and then a professor
Here in Los Angeles, we have a college professor who comes to our temple on Sundays with her family. Her name is Jennifer. She was first given Srila Prabhupada’s books by devotees at Santa Monica College several years ago. Jennifer got a copy of “A Higher Taste”, and upon reading it, she was convinced of vegetarianism and offering her food to Krishna. She also suspected that it was not the first time she had been exposed to it. She remembered that during her first intern year of teaching, at Pepperdine University, she had...
read moreIf you only take two you’ll regret it…
A pious lady walks over to my book table and says, “Sorry to interrupt your dinner. Do you any have books about Caitanya Mahaprabhu?” With a huge smile, I respond, “Just on this rare occasion, I happened to have a nine-volume Caitanya-caritamrita set waiting to go to your beautiful home with you.” When I showed her the set, she replied, “No, no. I don’t want nine books. I want only one or two. May I take just two books?” I explained to her that these books have the most authorized translations and commentaries. I added, “They are so...
read moreOvercoming resistance
“Hare Krishna! Can I have a few minutes of your time, please?” A man looking at the Gita in my hand says, “Sorry, not interested in religion.” “Fine. Can I ask you a question?” “If it’s not related to religion.” “Just want to know the meaning of religion. What do you think it is?” “Sorry. It’s a question related to religion.” “Why are you so conscientious not to accept any religious thoughts or discussions?” “First tell me, have you seen God?” “With our imperfect senses, how...
read moreNow it’s his turn
Recently, book distribution in Gurugram (India) was interesting, because it helped someone who was showing a paramount interest in distributing the Bhagavad-gita. I said, “Do you have a few minutes? Do you have the Gita?” This man said, “I knew it would be my turn, if Krishna wanted.” “Means?” “When you were persuading people, one after another, to accept a Gita, I was listening to the views shared by you and others.” “Thanks for taking your time to listen to the topics related to Lord...
read moreAustralia’s first “fired up” Book distributors
The first Australian Book Distributor pioneers built the foundations of Australian ISKCON by selling 10s of thousands of Srila Prabhupada’s Books. I remember the first day Buddhimanta prabhu went out selling big Krsna Books in Sydney in February 1973, he first showed Caru dasa and Yasomatinandana dasa then gradually we all learned how to distribute big books. I had the good fortune to go out on Book distribution many times with Buddhimanta. One time we started at 9am and did not stop until 3am early morning of the next day in Kings...
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