Country Compassion
Dear devotees It was a Saturday. Four of us set out in the sankirtan van to Campbelltown on the south-western outskirts of Sydney. It's kind of like a country town with tama guna farmer type people. This day it was rather quiet when we arrived. Usually only two devotees go there but this day we had four. So I felt bad because there was not many people around and it was my idea for four of us to go there so I decided to leave the...
Ninety Three Year Old Lady Gets the Mercy
SOFIA, Bulgaria One morning during the recent Prabhupada marathon, shortly after arriving at our sankirtan spot, I opened a box full of Srimad-Bhagavatams. A curious lady came by and looked over my shoulder. She was ninety-three years old! "What is this?" she asked. Usually such old people don't buy anything; they just tell us how big their library is and how learned they are. Expecting she was like that, I tried to at...
36000 Bhagavat Gitas ordered by visitor by mercy of Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga ! All glories to Srila Prabupada ! A trading company chairman visiting ISKCON Temple mentioned he trades in a commodity which cannot be stored. He informed that he started his company humbly and by the blessings of The Lord he received reasonable success. Then, His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj met him at The ISKCON Temple. And Maharaj preached to him about ISKCON and its...
A Set for Someone
Arvind Prabhu, a devotee in the Brahamchari Trainee group of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty was one of the leading book distributors in the recently concluded book marathon. He recalls an interesting experience about distributing a Srimad Bhagvatam set: I met a Gujarati man travelling with his 18 year old son. I offered them a book and the son took one English Bhagavad-gita. I offered the elderly man Srimad Bhagvatam....
My best Book Distribution experience
On one Sunday morning in Seattle waterfront, Veda Narayanan Prabhu and myself were distributing books. We had a good number of books distributed in spite of few stopping to take a book. By 3.00 PM we were tired and headed back to the car. We continued to distribute books on the walk back to car. I reached the curb side where our car was parked and was waiting for Veda Narayanan Prabhu who was talking to two tall African American...