People waiting to receive Srila Prabhupada’s books…
On a cold, quiet winter night I was praying for some mercy and this nice lady Priti comes up to my book table and says : “I just finished reading The Gita as it is , it took me 10 years to finish, but I did it” I thought it was amazing to hear that but to add to the ecstasy she goes “I want to start reading Bhagavatam now, Can I buy the Srimad Bhagavatam from you ?“ My jaws dropped in disbelief. Anytime I don’t feel like going out, I...
The pictures do it again
I met Sue at the Rotorua night market. She comes up to our table and says that she got a book from a monk when she was seventeen in London. At the time she didn’t understand what the books were about, but she was captivated by the pictures. I presented the Bhagavatam set, she was interested, but couldn’t afford it. She took a Bhagavatam 1.1 instead. As she’s flipping through the pictures, she keeps repeating, “These are the pictures....
Akula, “the Shark,” on sankirtan
In the spirit of the Prabhupada Marathon, here is a story from some years back in Russia. You know how Sanskrit names sometimes sound funny in our languages? Well, Gautama Rishi went on sankirtana with a friend called Akula. Akula means “shark” in Russian. Not “sounds like” but literally means that. Gautama and Akula went on sankirtana, door to door in a huge apartment block somewhere in Nizhniy Novogord. Some...
This is the sum and substance of the Krsna consciousness movement
“This should be the standard of determination for all Kṛṣṇa conscious persons. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person should free himself from the clutches of māyā, and he should also be compassionate to all others suffering in those clutches. The activities of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are meant not only for oneself but for others also. This is the perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One who is interested in his own salvation is not as...
Little Free Libraries
Mother Nidra in Denver put me in contact with a devotee named Bhakta Hal who sets up routes to find “Little Free Libraries” for sankirtan devotees. He has maps and info from the people who install Little Free Libraries all over North America including Canada. Bhakta Hal sends many routes, and my daughter Gaura has become our Google maps navigator. We get to access the cornucopia of books which is our temple book room, then...
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