A bouquet of flowers for . . . (surprise!)
I was distributing books at a community market in Australia, where I met a florist who had a booth. He was happy to take the Bhagavad-gita and a few small books. He gave a generous donation and on top of that, he gave me a bouquet of flowers. He expressed his interest in visiting the ISKCON farm, New Govardhana, and said he would come for the Sunday feast. I was happy to meet such a favorable person and pleased that he gave me...
Some appreciation…
This is a letter sent to us by Indradyumna Swami: Dear Sir, Yesterday my family and I attended your event, the Festival of India, in Mielno. It was a wonderful experience. I read about Lord Krishna as a teenager when one day, by chance, I came across a book called, “The Science of Self Realization” in a local library. I was only 10 years old at the time and it wasn’t easy reading. Even today I am still trying to...
Guru and Gauranga are so kind
My full schedule didn’t leave me with much time to get out on Sankirtan. I only had a 20 minute slot available, but still I wanted to try and make some small offering to Srila Prabhupada on his appearance day. It was a sunny day so I started distributing on the very street I live on in Petone, Lower Hutt. Amazingly almost everyone I met took books and 8 pieces of literature went out! The session got off to an auspicious start...
Christian student accepts a Bhagavad-gita
I was distributing flyers for an upcoming event in Perth, when two young men approached me and asked me what I was doing. I told them about the event and mentioned that I am a student of Bhagavad-gita. One man, Rabindra, is from Nepal and is studying the teachings of the Bible in a university. His desire is to study it himself so that he can share the teachings, and love of God, with others. He asked me what points struck me the most...
The right medicine
The other day, I was distributing books on the walking street of Oslo, the capital city of Norway. Usually, I do not often go to the walking street, only when we also have a harinama party. This time, as very often lately, another devotee came with me and did the harinama all alone, sometimes playing the harmonium, sometimes the mrdanga. I distributed books around him. As Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter to Ravindra Svarupa on...