A Methodist Reverend Appreciates Srila Prabhupada’s Books
By Bhakta Hemant & Bhaktin Aditi One late Friday afternoon we received a call from Reverend Ntombe, the leader of one of the Methodist churches in Pretoria. He said, “I was told you are from a society that is giving books to libraries. Could you donate some books for our church library?” The reverend went on to explain that he was starting a library for his church’s congregation and wanted as many quality books...
Good Character Saves a Soul
While speaking earlier this week with a boy who's recently taken up bhakti-yoga, I realized how important purity and Vaisnava character are for distributing Srila Prabhupada's books and inspiring people to take up devotional service. The boy was named Anchal. He had recently come to New Zealand from India, supposedly to further his studies but actually to meet his guru. He related to me how four months after his arrival here...
Another Soul on his Way to Krsna…..
We had just gotten back to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada, where the Halifax brahmacaris are based while traveling around the province with His Holiness Bhaktimarga Swami. We were in Halifax for the first time in two months to have a Sunday Feast with the devotees and friends of Krishna. When we arrived for the program, there was a young man whom I had met on the street some months back. The day I met him, as he recalled, he was in...
Krsna’s Invisible Hand! And the world sankirtan newsletter
I would like to share a small incident that happened to me while I was doing the smart box service in Houston Texas. After that you can read the world book distribution results for March, I went to one store where the store owner had some of the books in the smart box in Spanish. When I was collecting the laxmi from the box and refilling the books, the store owner told me that he would like me to refill the smart box with English...
A Counselor Receives the Real Cure for social ills
While distributing books at Purdue University (in West Lafayette, Indiana), I met a student who told me his mother was very interested in Vedic ideas and that she was a counselor in Purdue's Office of the Dean of Students. He suggested I go to her office and present her a copy of Bhagavad-gita As It Is. So I did just that. When I handed her the book, she said, "Oh, the Bhagavad-gita!" We talked for a couple of minutes;...
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