“Hitting up”
May17

“Hitting up”

All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga! May 17, 2001 Krishna Era 5228 Dear Vaisnava book distributors, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you for sharing your nice stories of selling books. Recently a devotee posted a story where the term "hitting up" a lady was included. In humility I will take the liberty to mention a few things which come to mind. The term "hit up" carries...

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Jehovah
May17

Jehovah

Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I hit up one young-ish lady and handed her a Srimad Bhagavatam Canto One, Part One. She liked it but could only give me some change, so I asked her if I could trade her down to an Isopanisad. She agreed, but the look on her face told me she wanted the Bhagavatam. Anyway, we talked a little, and she asked some nice questions. She revealed she had been...

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Lee Love
May16

Lee Love

Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are two stories from the previous Fridays, the 12th, encounters While out with Bhakta (Rupa) Richard of Denver we were talking about increasing the amount of donations that we would accept from the donators. So the amount of 50$ US was thrown out and we went from the van to the parking lots here in Missouri for a shot at it. As it turned out one...

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Prabhupada Quote
May16

Prabhupada Quote

I was reading the Srimad Bhagavatam and came across this very nice purport: Great personalities of the material world are very eager to render welfare service to human society, but actually no one can render better service than one who distributes the knowledge of spiritual realization in relation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All living entities are within the clutches of the illusory energy. Forgetting their real...

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Popstars
May12

Popstars

Dear Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. In Terminal One, LA Airport, today, I was moving around, looking for prospective customers to take Srila Prabhupada's books, when I noticed a group of young men hanging around casually and appearing like prime candidates for some mercy. So I approached them, but was pointed in the direction of one young lady amongst them, who seemed to be some sort...

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