Waka Flocka, a heavy rapper, reaches out for books
Recently, while distributing books at the Ockechobee music festival in Florida, something fascinating happened. Around 5:30 pm, I had already finished distributing. All of a sudden a thought came to mind: “Try to distribute Prabhupada's books to Waka.” Last year, while I was distributing books on the Warped tour, I was handed a pamphlet promoting vegetarianism. I looked through it. There were quotes by famous people, and to my amazement there was a quote by Waka. He said something like: “How can I eat something that will...
read moreTwo in Toronto, Tony and Marcia, get books
Tony, a former student of electrical engineering, is now studying acting. He responded to my question, "Hey, do you like to read?" with a hearty "Yes, I love to. What do you have there?" From there, our conversation never looked back on a refusal. Tony continued to ask questions and accept books. He told me he is very logical: "If you can't prove it, I can't believe it." When I spoke of changing bodies, he accepted the logical possibility. His parents are from Ghana and Jamaica, but he was born in Canada....
read moreWater-management professional orders four thousand Gitas
A water-management professional visited the ISKCON Delhi Temple. He mentioned the future water problems coming our way, especially in India and China. Then Gopal Krishna Goswami arrived at the scene, met this water-management professional and sympathized with him regarding the problem. Gopal Krishna Goswami preached to him about the solution in the Bhagavad-gita. The real solution is to perform sacrifice. The water-management professional was convinced and immediately ordered four thousand Gitas. Bhagavad Gita 3.14 annad bhavanti bhutani...
read moreHave contact information in the book
While in Sri Lanka, where the Bhagavatam sets are flying out under the sincere management of Vasudeva Datta Prabhu, it came to my attention that a local devotee there became a devotee by receiving a book. He liked the book and was thinking how to find out more, when he found a stamp in the book that told him where the temple is and how to get more books. This is so important! We have to leave contact information in the book for those rare souls looking for it. Let's try to make it as easy as possible for them to contact us. Yes, there are...
read more“You atheistic pigs!”
I was distributing books with Krishnaloka & Gokul-lila during the December 2016 marathon. We were in Levin, a small town about an hour outside of Wellington, New Zealand. Standing outside the post office, I see two white-collar boys walk past me. Not expecting them to be anything special, I stop them and try to show them books. One boy says he is a Christian. “That's all right,” I say. “We're not trying to change any religion, just saying there is always more to know.” The boy asks me if I know where the...
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