Interview with Brigupati Prabhu, October 2002
Dear Vijaya Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Granted- I want name and fame. But I also want the book distributors world-wide to be pleased upon me. Some operate with the idea, "Krsna knows what I did; no need to tell anyone." But I operate with the idea that if devotees hear about my insignificant service, they will bestow their good wishes upon me, and that is my advancement. All...
Full Surrender
Haribol Prabhus! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Recently, Niranjana Swami told me about an interesting person in Kiev, Ukraine. This person is an Orthodox Christian, but became attracted to Krsna consciousness after getting a book. He tried to live in the temple as brahmacari, but it was to foreign to him. So he went back to live in the Christian monastery, though still chanting sixteen rounds a...
You Never Know who you Give a book to.
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. As I was staying at the Kyiv temple in Ukraine a Prabhupada disciple named Misra Bhagavan das came to stay here as well. He began telling me about his life in and out of Krsna consciousness. He used to be on the Radha Damodara traveling party with Visnu Jon Swami and Tamal Krsna Maharaja, those good old days, but eventually because of the unusual...
Ukraine Book Distribution
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. The devotees in Ukraine just had an great festival with over fifteen hundred devotees participating. Ten sanyasis were there to enliven the devotees. Niranjana Swami was the host Sanyasi as everyone was invited by him, thus after the first kirtan of the festival he introduced and glorified all the devotees that would be giving seminars, about...
A Sweet Dream
Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. While I was in Poland at the wookstock festival a devotee told me of a dream he had. Prabhupada came to him and said, "Tell the sankirtan devotees that by this activity of book distribution I personally will take them back home back to Godhead." Your Servent Vijaya...