- Part 346

May08

Don’t be Caught out Here without some of those Sweets

Posted on May 8, 2013 in Sankirtan Stories

Completely sweet. Reminds me of the time I was stopped by a policeman while distributing books in Daley Plaza in Chicago. He said "What's in the bag?" My heart rate went up and I thought I was going to be harassed and told to move on. Then this big burly cop asked "Got any of those sweets?" Turns out he had received some prasadam sweets at the Chicago Ratha yatra and had never forgotten the taste. I did have...

May06

A Message From Beyond

Posted on May 6, 2013 in Sankirtan Stories

While we were in New Plymouth the other day to run a few errands, Syama-gauri and I thought we'd try selling a few Gitas to a small quasi-spiritual book store in town, which also specializes in crystals, magic potions, fairy statues and incense sticks. A few weeks back, Syama-gauri had by chance meet one of the staff who worked there, and mentioned in passing that we had the Bhagavad-gita and other books from the East, and the...

May04

North Carolina State University: Book Distribution at Yogafest

Posted on May 4, 2013 in Sankirtan Stories

Last Friday, our traveling sankirtan party visited North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, and the devotees felt very well received. In the beginning of the day, I met a person who told me that the next day there would be an event called Yogafest at a conference center on campus I looked up the event online and called the organizer. I told him that I am a Vedic monk who travel all over the United States distributing the original...