Toronto Sankirtan Story 2011 – EVERYONE Matters, Every BIT counts!
By Mahasundari Madhavi devi dasi At the end of 2010, the Toronto Sankirtan Team set an ambitious goal to distribute a minimum of 35,000 books during 2011. This seemed like a tall task given that it was more than three times the number of books distributed in the whole of 2009! But as Srila Prabhupada emphatically said, “Impossible is a word in a fool’s dictionary.” Devotees in Toronto truly imbibed that mood and...
Will this Book Help You Quit Smoking?
by Bhakta Corey We went to a mall in Brownsville, Texas near the border of Mexico, and had a very wonderful experience distributing books. The Spanish people seem to be very relaxed–and it appears to me that they are living a peaceful life. There was one person I met that I remember quite well. I stopped a Mexican man who was smoking a cigarette. He took the book,Perfection of Yoga, and while he was looking it...
Ecstatic Encounters
Recently while distributing books at our local market we had some interesting encounters. ** These Are Books of Knowledge, Not Religion ** I showed a set of small books to a young man and explained their contents. He said, "I'm an atheist and don't want to read these religious books." I replied, "You've never been exposed to this subject matter, and that's why you feel you won't be interested because...