Rainy-day revelation
It was such a cold, windy, rainy day in Hastings, New Zealand that I dared to stand inside a Kmart and distribute indoors. Confident that Krishna would protect me from the security, I was doing okay. An hour later a friendly mall cleaner told me that the manager was watching me through the camera the whole time, and if I didn’t leave now they would call the police. It had been a while since I hit Queens Street in Hastings, so it...
Appreciative people encourage a book distributor
On a rainy day in Curitiba, Brazil, Mahananda Murari Prabhu (JPS) did sankirtana on buses. Inside a bus, one man was on his phone, so he excused himself. It could have been a trick to avoid the monk, but no, because when he and Mahananda got off at the terminal, the man approached him with money in his hand and said, “I want to talk to you.” His name is Vilmar, he said, and he really appreciates our work. He bought a...
The Lord’s evident and wonderful arrangements
In southern Brazil, a woman who was in a hurry approached Bhakta Gustavo just to ask him about the price of the Gita. Gustavo, then, while quickly trying to show her other books, dropped a Sri Isopanisad. She gently picked it up to return it to him and felt inspired to say that she has a tattoo of a Sanskrit mantra that she does not know the meaning of. She showed it to Gustavo. He immediately recognized it and said, “It’s the first...
WSNL for July 2023
July was another glorious month of book distribution for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada, with at least 435,023 books and magazines distributed worldwide (and even more that are unreported — what to do?). In the Large Temple category, Radhadesh had the biggest increase — 354% and 2,207 book points. That’s good for this rural community in Belgium, which has a traveling sankirtana van, plus Yadurani Devi Dasi distributing Bhagavatam...
Books are the Basis Week Announcement
Dear Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. ISKCON Ministry of Education cordially invites you to take part in this year’s Books Are The Basis week. The global event is scheduled from 29th September to 5th October 2023, and the topic for this year is _Shastra Caksu_ – seeing the world through the eyes of Srila Prabhupada’s books. We humbly request that you involve your temple...
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