The nectar of traveling sankirtan in New Zealand
Hare Krishna, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here are some stories: This marathon I am doing travelling sankirtan in northern New Zealand. We are visiting many small towns — something I'm not used to, having distributed mostly in bustling Toronto city. Also I usually stop younger people, but to my surprise so many older people one after the next got books...
The causeless mercy of the Srimad Bhagavatam
Whose home does Srimad-Bhagavatam choose? The home of one who's been raised through and through in the Bhagavata culture? Or one who outright rejects the Vedas' authority and blasphemes the tenets of Bhagatava? Can't say. Bhagavatam, like its subject, Krishna, is svarat, or independent, and out of causeless mercy descends in the lives of readers by using sankirtan warriors as its humble, menial...
BBT International Library in Vrindavan
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. There is an excellent BBT International Library at Prabhupada's house in Vrindavan. There are books in about 30 languages for foreigners to read. But the library is far from complete. We request you to bring samples of books in your language to put in the library. You can also include mantra cards with your temple address so the...
Even prison cannot stop sankirtan
Recently, we distributed books in southwest Germany, in Offenburg. We have a devotee there, Peter. On account of his criminal past, he was caught by the police and put into jail a few month ago. I met a person in Offenburg on sankirtan who said that his uncle studies our kind of books and preaches to him about their importance. It turns out that his uncle is Peter. The person happily took a Bhagavatam. Then,...