There Is a Name Written in Each Book
Jul26

There Is a Name Written in Each Book

Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am just finishing up a North American tour, on which I did book distribution and conducted seminars. It has been very enlivening. While traveling I had the good fortune of Jayadvaita Maharaja's association in New York City. He gave a very nice class the evening before I left. He spoke about book distribution (it's always nice to hear our...

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What a prayer to Prabhupada will do …..
Jul23

What a prayer to Prabhupada will do …..

Maha Buddhi dasa "Bhaktitirta Swami, who was Ghanasyam before taking sanyasa was on book distribution with me in the 1970's distributing full sets to the colleges. We went to a small college and found out it was a holiday. Ganasyam decided to give it a try anyway. I said, "Why do you want to waste your time and mine, it's a small school and it is a holiday!" Ghanasyam said, "Alright, I'll just go to the...

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Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Jul21

Caitanya Mahaprabhu

By Yadavendra Das My dear readers, Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of Iskcon and Institutor of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust! Here is a very wonderful and true sankirtan story: Yesterday, 20 July 2010 while on Book Distribution in Brisbane, Australia, I met an Indian lady from South India of all places, who gave her name as Tanya. I replied to her:” But that’s not...

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Krishna Immediately Recognizes a Preacher
Jul20

Krishna Immediately Recognizes a Preacher

letter, December 11, 1975 "The Sankirtana devotees are very dear to Krishna. Because you are doing the field work of book distribution, Krishna has immediately recognized them as true servants. Just like during war time, a farm boy or ordinary clerk who goes to fight for his country on the front immediately becomes a national hero for his sincere effort. So Krishna immediately recognizes a preacher of Krishna Consciousness who...

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The Multilevel Marketplace of the Holy Name
Jul19

The Multilevel Marketplace of the Holy Name

By Akruranatha Dasa The devotees of ISKCON of Silicon Valley (ISV) in San Jose are still glowing after recently completing the annual Bhaktivinoda Thakur Monthly Sankirtan Festival. They set for themselves the daunting goal of mobilizing 300 book distributors, but when the dust settled a record 556 people had gone out, with a net result of over 10,000 books distributed and over $18,000 collected in donations! On July 17th I...

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