Malaysia book distribution
Hare Krsna Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I'm in the holy place of Sri Dhama Mayapur recuperating from a throat problem. When I was in Malaysia I saw a doctor about it, he said, because I use it so much, it's irritated, nothing serious but I have to just stop talking for some time. This will be an austerity. Absence makes the heart grow fonder — I'm hankering to get out there again to distribute the only hope for the human race: Prabhupada's books.
The situation in Malaysia is extraordinary. It's a Muslim country, so there are some restrictions. The one that affects the book distributors the most is that they cannot approach a Muslim to distribute books to him. If a devotee is caught distributing a book to a Muslim, the government could go as far as closing down all of our temples, and we have thirty in Malaysia. Seventy percent of the population in Malaysia is Muslim, so that really restricts us. But at least they let us distribute to the non-Muslims. In most Muslim countries we can't even have a preaching center, what to speak of distributing books or doing Harinam.
There's a devotee in Kuala Lumpur named Nila Madhava Prabhu. He's fifty years old and has polio; he has a steel brace on his leg that allows him to walk. He has quite a limp. I asked him, "Doesn't it hurt when you walk so much distributing books?"
He said, "Pain or no pain, I distribute."
He goes out every day to distribute books — no days off. He said, "I like to distribute books, so why should I stay back?"
This is a good example of determination. An inspiration to our society.
Your servant,
Vijaya das
