Excerpt From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter
Jan21

Excerpt From the Los Angeles Sastra Dana newsletter

A BOON TO PREACH Our activity is preaching. Yes, flood the whole world with the message of Mahaprabhu. We are gosthyanandis not bhajananandis. Bhakisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami has said, prana ache tanra sehetu pracara : “He has life therefore he is preaching.” His heart bleeds seeing the suffering of the jivas. So he goes out not caring anything for himself. Go out and preach! Inculcate Krishna consciousness onto them. Let...

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Jai!
Jan05

Jai!

I was distributing in Brisbane, Australia. I pulled over an alternative looking couple and gave them my spiel. They liked my sense of humor but said that they were Christians so they weren't interested. I showed them the Chapter on Christ and just asked for a donation and somehow or other they were inspired and they just threw in ten bucks. I was going to tell them more but they said that they were in a hurry for a doctor...

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An Article for the Book Distribution Conference
Jan04

An Article for the Book Distribution Conference

Here's an article you can post on your conference, not from me, but as a contribution from Premanjana dasa, president of a center in Holland, who is traveling with Lokanath Swami in India. This is a newspaper article that appeared in The Times of India from Saturday 1-January-2000 about Gita Jayanti Celebrations. (Reporter: Parmarthi Raina) GITA JAYANTI CELEBRATIONS On December 19, the International Society for Krishna...

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Help from the Lord Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
Mar01

Help from the Lord Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa

HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness through books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. Two Forms of the Lord One day in Prague in 1996 I was supposed to be distributing books, but I couldn't get up the nerve to approach anyone. After a while I became upset with myself. "How can you just sit here while these people walking by are searching for the very books you're...

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Mercy Amid Mayhem Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa
Jan01

Mercy Amid Mayhem Compiled by Navina Nirada Dasa

FOLLOWING ARE excerpts from the diary of Aisvarya Dasa. Based in San Diego, he travels throughout America with other devotees, distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. Saturday, June 13, 1998 Washington, D.C. We'd just come from New Vrindavan, so after the peace and serenity of farm life, my mind was having trouble coping with being thrown into this mayhem the Tibetan Freedom Concert, an outdoor rock concert at RFK Stadium. Then...

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