From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
INTERVIEW WITH SVAVASA PRABHU (you don't wanna miss this one) Sastra Dana: What is the importance of book distribution today in this age as compared to the preaching of Lord Krishna's glories strictly in the form of harinam 500 years ago? Svavasa Prabhu: I don't think there is any difference, Prabhupada called book distribution "brhad mrdanga" – the greater mrdanga. The example of that is that if you do...
From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana Newsletter
SASTRA DANA AT THE UNIVERSITI OF CALIFORNIA AT THE IRVINE I recently had the opportunity to witness this glorious Sastra Dana program in action at the University of California at Irvine. As we were walking to the classroom the two prabhus, Arcita das and Mahat-tattva das, ahead of me were caring full boxes of books. I was considering what a labor of love this was. Those boxes were heavy! While Arcita das addressed college students on...
“I’ll be back!”
A presentation by Navina Nirada Dasa at the NE BBT symposium, South Germany on the 1.15.2000 Dear Devotees, I feel excited to be here and hear all these wonderful presentations and see all these documentations of Srila Prabhupadas present book production and distribution. I just came from Mayapur where we completed the Sankirtan Academy. In this Vaishnava Academy we will soon host the MIHE, Mayapur Institute of Higher Education. Over...
“I’ll be back!”
Dear Navina Nirada prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your feet, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you from the core of my heart for all the services especially related to book distribution you have done in ISKCON. Your letter was quite open and frank but very encouraging. The society needs that now more than ever. I did not have the courage to write directly to the conference because I doubt anyone would...
Dood to Door
I was distributing in Auckland with a few Bhagavad Gita's, after an hour or so I ran out, we still had some SB 1.1.s, but I was lamenting a little because I'm pretty attached to Bhagavad Gita's. Bhakta Luke and myself went up to a door, a man answered, I told him we're monks, going around distributing these wonderful books about self realization and how to be satisfied and peaceful in life. He said he wasn't...