Cruzin’
Aug22

Cruzin’

Dear Vaisnavas, Vaisnavis, Friends, Brijbasis, Countymen Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! One could have a field day describing the finer subtleties of Santa Cruz. Not that it's that subtle! When i ask tourists what their first impressions of this Northern Californian town is they normally take a few seconds to think about it and then look at me with a puzzled look. To keep things short...

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Get the Mercy!
Aug20

Get the Mercy!

Dear Devotees in this wonderful BDS forum, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thanks to all of you for your kind and inspiring messages about distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. All glories to the Sankirtan Movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu! Could we have more Book Dist. Seminars around the world? We'd like to learn & practice how to distribute books nicely. The experienced book...

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Get the Mercy!
Aug19

Get the Mercy!

Dear Prabhu's Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada wanted everyone in our society to learn the art of book distribution. Why did he stress this so much? Because he knew that these books will change people's hearts and bring them happiness, just as they have, millions of times. He said that even if someone touches a book he benefits, what to speak of reading it, appreciating it,...

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To Further the Krsna Consciousness Movement
Aug16

To Further the Krsna Consciousness Movement

From Brisbaner Australia: Parigraha is a brahmacary from the Northern European countries. He visited Oz some time ago. While standing in front of Govinda's in the city, he gave a soft cover Gita to a Mr Wong who is a general practitioner. Mr Wong gave Parigraha $20 and was on his way. A few weeks later, we received a letter from Mr Wong stating how he appreciated the book he received and he gave a donation "to further...

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Mercy for Bob
Aug16

Mercy for Bob

In the year 2000 I was going to Chicago for sometime to Distribute books and I came across a few quotes from Srila Prabhupada where he said that Chicago was the best place in the world to Distribute his books. I was meditating on this in Mayapura during the festival when I met a devotee named Tranakarta Prahbu. He was a distributor in Chicago during the seventies when SKP there was bigger than ever. He is a big Italian Devotee who...

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