Ananda
Coventry,UK: I had the great fortune to go out on a harinama on Lord Nityananda's appearance day. A pleasant gentleman called Robert, who was with his young daughter, wanted to talk with us. Both he and his daughter loved the harinama and wanted to know more about Hare Krsns. We were suprised when he told us his daughter's name was Ananda, an unusual name for an English girl. He told us the story behind her name: Many...
Third generation book distributors
Haribol Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently I had an interesting experience in Australia. Fifteen years ago I distributed books in Melbourne with a devotee named Atul Krsna Prabhu, a disciple of Prabhavisnu Swami, and on my last trip I distributed books in Sydney with his son, Uddhava Prabhu, a fired up book distributor. It is really encouraging to see that some third-generation...
The Books flow in Fiji
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I'm on a little world tour to try to increase the distribution of Prabhupada's books. The first stop is Fiji. The devotees here are mainly householders, with the corresponding responsibilities, but still they sometimes go out. The day after I arrived I gave a sankirtan class about the importance of spreading the knowledge of Krsna...
We Want to Get a Certificate from Krsna That . . .
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The Srimad-Bhagavatam says that in the present age people in general are short-lived, lazy, misguided, unlucky, and, above all, always disturbed. In such an all-encompassing degraded atmosphere, to find someone willing to take up Krsna consciousness seriously is very, very rare. But we have to soldier on. We know Krsna wants us to distribute books that...
The Prabhupada Marathon
Haribol Prabhus! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are all fortunate to be under the shelter of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chanting Hare Krsna, associating with devotees, taking prasada, and hearing the philosophy of Krsna consciousness and the Lord's pastimes. Srila Prabhupada said, "Our movement is to help everyone become fortunate." "One who tries to relieve Sri Caitanya...