We were on our way to the Moedown Music festival in Up-State New York to
distribute BBT books to around 10,000+ music fans. However, after an
hour-long search of our van at the security check point, we were turned away
because of the exorbitant amount of books in our vehicle.
After cleaning up the mess they made of our personal items and leaving, we
were stopped 15 minutes later by a New York state trooper because the
concert security had called them saying that maybe they should "check us
out." After hearing that the Sheriff had no remorse for allowing ten
Hare Krishna.
Please accept my humble obeisances
all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The mercy of Lord Caitanya
I was distributing books on Lincon Road a corner of shops in Auckland
New Zealand. Many people were taking books.Coming towards me where
two young boys, I concluded before stopping them that they were either
on drugs or depressed, need I describe more of there morbid
expressionless faces. As we talked I discovered they were brothers
15+16 and due to circumstances were best friends, they didn't really
Two weeks in Iceland
One day I was distributing in the city of Reykjavik and I approached a man on
bicycle who looked a little drunk or poor D like that ...it turned out that he
was really interested. He asked, "How much?" I said, "Just give something as a
donation to the monks." He found nothing, but immediately he was
thinking what to give me instead, he took a silver ring from his finger and
gave it to me....I was satisfied. It was the most valuable thing he had D so we
happily exchanged some words. Then he looked serious and said, "Give me the
Real Selflessness
A book distributor has to be well-versed with philosophy to answer all
challenges. Satyananda Prabhu of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty
India, narrates his experience with a challenger:
I was distributing books in suburban railways in a fairly crowded
compartment announcing about the root cause of our problem, when suddenly a
man sitting in between two others shouted loudly, "Just tell me in one line
what is the root cause of our problem?" Six feet tall, wearing a white shirt
The common thread of Srila Prabhupada's teachings in his books is that we
are not this body but are pure spirit soul, which is the eternal servant of
Krsna and that he is the father of everyone. By the mercy of Guru and
Gauranga, during the three months we spent in Kenya and Tanzania,
distributing Srila PrabhupadaÕs books to the East African people, I found
that even the most uneducated person, when he or she begins to understand
about the difference between the material body and the eternal spirit soul D
Dear devotees
Me and my godbrother Yasodeva prabhu, the perfection of vaisnava dealings,
were distributing in Parramata, Sydney ( Srila Prabhupada called this place
pramada, because its full of crazies ).
I was off like a rocket. There was a lot of charity workers on the street so
I was walking from one end of Church street to the other trying so hard to
be the doer. Even with all my expertise nothing was happening. On my own I
could hardly distribute even one book.
So I thought, "I'm just going to stand here in this spot under the rail
Hari bol Prabhus
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
It's amazing how much nectar is flowing out of New Zealand and Australia. 60%
of the BDN nectar is coming from these temples. Srila Prabhupada and Devamrta
Swami (the guru of most of them if not all of them) has them on fire, getting
the mercy, and giving the mercy. They're swimming in the nectar repeatedly
diving in and around the ocean of book distribution.
But there's a lot more nectar flowing around the world, we're just not getting
It was just me and the parampara distributing in Hurstville (Sydney
Australia). One young man was interested in Krsna book but he was cashless
so I went with him to the bank. I was distributing while waiting for him to
get his money but some how he disappeared, with the Krsna book. I checked
the bank and he was gone. I noticed he worked for a mobile shop in the mall
by the shirt he was wearing, so I thought me and the parampara will drop in
on him at his work a bit latter.
So I went on attempting to please Guru and Krsna. I was praying "Krsna please
I was distributing in Queen st, Auckland praying to the six
Goswamis.
Two tall guys passed me and I asked them "guys from Auckland or overseas ?"
One of them replied from overseas Buffalo New York. He was a tall black
American named Earl. As soon I showed him the books he showed so much
enthusiasm to know what they are about. I explained a little bit. Earl said
he is currently staying in Bombay (a suburb in Auckland) serving
the Buddhist monks, driving, cleaning, washing etc..Very interested in
Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne
Prabhupada: “No, that is missionary activities, that they do not understand,
but you have to make them understand. They are not calling you, "I am
suffering. Please come," but it is your business to go and let them know
that "You are suffering. You take this method." That is the way of becoming
very quickly recognized by Krsna. Otherwise, if you think, "They are not
understanding, what is the use of going there? Let me sleep," that is not
good. They are not understanding; still, you have to go. Then Krsna will
