Nice surprises

HH Giriraj Swami

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

As I’m writing this, I’m on my way to Africa to try to do what I can to increase book distribution there.

Krsna has an amazing way of making nice arrangements: On my flight to Lagos I had a six-hour stop over in Houston, so I asked some friends to pick me up and take me to the new temple. The temple is the most beautiful temple we have in the Western hemisphere!

While there I heard that His Holiness Giriraja Swami was also visiting Houston. So after getting darsan and taking prasada, I went to offer him my respects and to ask for his blessings to have some success in increasing book distribution.

I was in for another surprise. When I told him that I was on my way to Lagos, he said he was the first devotee to enter Nigeria and the first to distribute books in Nigeria. He said that while he was distributing books people would come up to him and say Hare Krsna. He would ask them how they knew about Hare Krsna, since no devotees had ever been there. And they would say that their friends had received books in England or other parts of the world. That was in 1973. Although Maharaja was the first devotee to enter Nigeria, Prabhupada's vani was already there. Therefore book distribution is appropriately called by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura the Brhat mrdanga,

Even though his health is not so good, Giriraja Swami still travels to temples to encourage the devotees in their Krsna consciousness. He is a great inspiration for our society.

Your servant,
Vijaya Dasa

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