The Perfect Escape
Dear devotees, Recently I had the great fortune of having my four wisdom teeth pulled out. I went to the dentist in dhoti and kurta, and all the dental staff were really favorable, so I invited them for the Sunday Feast at our city sankirtan ashram and promised to bring some books for them on my next visit. One week later I had to go in for a check-up. I was back on sankirtan but taking it easy, and when I went for my appointment I...
A Christian Pastor Becomes a Devotee
About a month and a half back I posted a story about how when I was going shop to shop in Lilongwe, Malawi, a pastor who worked as a manager in a car showroom bought four books from me and expressed interest in buying a Bhagavad Gita later. Well, I went back to see him periodically to find out how he was doing as he read through the books. He went through them very methodically — highlighting, underlining, and marking many...
Krishna Is All Attractive
This is the third year ISKCON Hong Kong participated in the Hong Kong Book Fair. One evening during the fair a lady visited our booth and I struck up a conversation with her. I learned she was quite fond of religion and was a vegetarian, so I recommended that she purchase the Bhagavad Gita. She refused, claiming she was too busy to read, and then left with her two full shopping bags. After a little while she returned and started...
WSN June 2010 – World Sankirtan Newsletter
By Vijaya (das) HDG (USA) Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The month of June had some interesting highlights. Bhaktin Radhika of the temple in Juhu (Mumbai) did 44,560 book points, distributing 20,000 Bhagavad-gitas and 9,120 medium books. Very impressive. She is expert at going to companies and getting them to take or sponsor huge amounts of books. What’s amazing is that...
An Appeal for the Book Distributors
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In 2002 the GBC asked me to be the minister of book distribution. Since then I have been traveling around the world trying to encourage book distribution. One of the obstacles to book distribtuon that I often see as I travel in the third-world countries, and sometimes in first- and second-world countries as well, is that many temples cannot afford...
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