Former Hip-Hop Artist Turns No. 1 Book Distributor
Jaya Caitanya Das (left) and two happy costumers You might not have heard of Jaya Caitanya Das, the thirty-year-old who’s been the number one book distributor in the U.S. for the past two years. Even if he sold 85,000 of Prabhupada’s books this year alone. That’s because until recently, the young man was living at home with his parents in Orange County, California. Jaya Caitanya grew up in a Vaishnava Hindu family...
The Music From an Open Bhagavatam
Dec 22 in Cisco San Jose: Off late, I was not getting a chance to go into a room to read Srimad Bhagavatam. Hence I started reading little portions at the desk at work as I got the opportunities. One of my colleagues, who joined the team a week ago, saw the open Bhagavatam and asked about the book. He flipped through the pages, and next day he borrowed the book and called the temple to inquire about buying the Bhagavatam. Sri Gopal...
Prayer Worked
We changed locations twice, yet the books were not distributed. At our third location, all of us formed a circle and prayed to Lord Chaitanya: kathañcana smrte yasmin duskaram sukaram bhavet vismrte viparitam syat sri-caitanyam namami tam. After the prayer, as we turned outward, a pious couple was walking by. Parantapa, Niharika and Advaita narrated to them the glories of the Bhagavatam. Abhijeet narrated the glories of Lord...
A Blessed Butcher
Recently, my parents put in a new kitchen and stored the old one at my place, in the garage, while it was sold on TradeMe. When it sold, a man came around with his trailer to collect it. It was a large kitchen, and it took him two trips to collect everything. Each time, it took him a long time to load the trailer and tie stuff down, and, as he worked, he told me about his life: what his children were like and how he had moved to New...