Reconciling Kindness and Firmness
For a whole week I'd experienced a profound sense of detachment while distributing books at the southbound platform within the illustrious Broadway-Lafayette subway station in New York City. My steadiness and purity of mind were unprecedented. I jotted down notes to myself on how one must be kind and smile at everyone, regardless of their response. Be light. That was the key. The next week I attempted to employ the realizations...
Amazon.com Makes Devotees
While in Cape Town, South Africa, I heard this amazing story about how several sincere souls in that city become devotees. Jed was looking into Buddhism and found out about Krsna from one of the books. He purchased a Bhagavad Gita (not Srila Prabhupada's) and read it, but he couldn't understand what it was about. He still wanted to know about Krsna though, so he ordered a couple of books from Amazon.com about the life of Krsna...
A Suggestion
Hare Krsna, Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I'm in Brazil now, going out with the devotees and giving some talks on book distribution. Brazil is on the rise in book distribution. Many young men and women are joining and taking part in book distribution. An interesting feature of Brazil is that there is a very nice sannyasi here named Dhanvantari Swami, who teaches Bhakti-shastri. Every...
Param Vijayate!
I had only been inside a mall at Manukau (Auckland, New Zealand) for about 5 or 10 minutes when I was stopped by a lady. "Is that a Bhagavad-Gita?" pointing to the Srimad Bhagavatams and "Searching For Vedic India" under my arm. I replied, "This is Srimad Bhagavatam, it is spoken after the Gita. She took a great interest in the books and it happened that she was a yoga enthusiast since the age of 16 in Russia....
No More Coming Back
Often book distributors are busy simply passing on Srila Prabhupada's books. But a careful follow up can ensure wonderful changes, as shown in this account by Sudhir Chaitanya Prabhu, of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty. I was distributing Srila Prabhupada's books near a police chowky, outside Kurla railway station, a Mumbai suburb. A lady in her early fifties and her young son waited patiently till I finished my...
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