The Art of Book distribution Seminar
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Last year during the Mayapur festival many international leaders of our sankirtan movement and some of the BBT managers had a meeting about book distribution and concluded that we should revive the book distribution training course. So it's happening. Bhrgupati Prabhu and myself will be the facilitators for the first seminar at the beginning...
Humility on Book Distribution
"And begging is bad. To keep the people, whole population, in terrified condition, that is very good, and if anyone in a humble way begs, that is bad. This is your culture. Vedic way allows the brahmacari to beg just to learn humbleness, not beggar. Coming from very big, big family all family, they practice it. This is not begging. This is to learn how to become humble and meek". Room Conversation Excerpt, February 4, 1977,...
Attention Book Distributors to be!
By Danavir Goswami If you would like to be personally trained by one of ISKCON’s best book distributors, here is the opportunity of a lifetime. Paramesvara dasa Brahmacari (placed first in USA distribution 2006 and 2007) has happily agreed to share his realizations and association with those wishing to learn the art. He will be available starting August 20, 2008 for two types of training programs: Program 1: Traveling sankirtan...
Sastra Dana Newsletter – March 2008
SD: How did you come to know Krishna Consciousness? M: I was sitting outside a café in down town San Diego. Some young women walked by and one of them handed me a flyer. It was an invitation to the Hare Krishna Festival. I always identified with Eastern philosophies. It seemed like I aspired toward Krishna consciousness before I knew anything about it. It was natural. SD: What did you think of your first visit to...
BBT Reports 28% Sales Increase for 2007 – Report from the 1st day of the GBC meetings 2008
By Anuttama das Mayapura, West Bengal Trustees of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT), the publishing arm of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, reported today at ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission Annual General Meeting in Mayapura, West Bengal, that its international sales for the year 2007 had increased by 28% over the previous year. The BBT exclusively publishes the books and other source materials of Srila...
Book Distribution is so nice
Book distribution is so nice. It actually feels like you are under the shelter of the spiritual energy of Krishna, and that maya cannot touch you. It feels like such a secure position to be in, to be a book distributor. It is also an ever increasing mellow that you can relish. The bliss and heights that you reach on sankirtan simply get higher and higher, greater and greater. It truly seems as if there is no end to it, an endless...