Reggie gets the mercy
On the first day of the 2010 Prabhupada Marathon we (myself and Bhakta Alexey, on his first marathon) were on Oxford Street in London, waiting for a bus to take us to our destination, further up the street. We started to distribute books at the bus stop. When the bus arrived, the driver held my books as I got on. He was from Indonesia. I asked him to take a Bhagavad-gita and he did, giving me a small donation. It wasn't enough for...
Getting a taste again
Yesterday, for the first time in two years, I went out for book distribution with the harinama party. While we were proceeding, I started praying to Srila Prabhupada for His mercy and blessings so I could distribute some books, as I had lost the taste for door-to-door distribution, and to revive myself I took shelter of the harinama party. Since it was going to be only a one-hour harinama, I decided not to take many books. There were...
New Book Distribution lectures, Italy TSKP, and a story from Rome
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently the ISKCON Desire Tree website has added a number of book distribution lectures. Most were given by senior book distributors from around the world during the Mayapur festival; a few were given by me in various countries on my way to Mayapur. To find them, just go to www.iskcondesiretree.net, find the book distribution category, and open...
WSN March 2011 – World Sankirtan Newsletter
By Vijaya das Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada said spreading Krsna consciousness means we are declaring war on the illusory energy. Well, many of the warriors in our sankirtan bases around the world had good results in March. Mayapur Dham did 138,601 book points, over six times more than the number two temple in the world, Tirupati, which did 20,948 points. The...
WSN January 2011 – World Sankirtan Newsletter
By Vijaya das Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Mayapur Dham has stepped into the new year with a really good start, doubling every other temple in the world for the month of January, with over 51,637 book points. Rupanuga Vedic College also had a dynamic start, doubling every other small temple in the world, with 7,894 book points. Bharadwaj Prabhu from Mayapur is in the samadhi...