Books On The Home Front, Another Venue For BD

Posted on March 17, 2010  
Filed under BVKS Sanga

Grhasthas please note.

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Text PAMHO:19281248 (44 lines)
From: Vijaya (das) HDG (USA)
Date: 17-Mar-10 02:13 -0500 (11:13 +0400)
To: BDN (Book Distribution Nectar) [3006]
Cc: Benelux Free Forum [5451] (sender: Manohara das (Radhadesh -
BE))
Subject: Books on the home front, another venue for BD
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In Sydney, I mainly do book distribution on the street. We are also very
fortunate to have a strong team of six Devamrita Swamis bramacaris opening
the
storehouse of love of God on the streets of hundreds of suburbs in Sydney.

Since I took to the Grhasta asram, I have found another avenue for book
distribution – inside our house. We set up a shop in the foyer with mainly
books but other paraphenalia also. So we do home programs and some people
buy
books during the programs. But some of the most enlivening experiences are
when
people come to do some work for us or people knock on our door to sell us
things. We had a plumber come to do some work. He ended up sitting down for
a
full meal of prasadam and bought a Gita and cookbook for $50. He also told
us
about these South American guys who install Pink Bat installation in the
roof
to give extra cooling in summer and heating in winter. He said they do it
for
free as the government offers this benefit to people so they use less air
conditioning etc. So I called them up. They came around a few days later and
installed the insulation. I cooked a simple lunch of Upma, tomato
chutney, strawberry lassi, halava and custard. We all sat on the back lawn
and took lunch prasadam. They all loved the prasadam and one man in
particular
was asking a lot of questions about our philosophy. He out of the four men
asked for seconds and thirds of prasadam! They went back to work and when
finishing, this one man asked if he could stay and ask some questions. We
sat
down in the shop and he asked very intelligent questions for 1 or 2 hours.
He
ended up buying a variety of books and gave $60.

Sometime later we were preparing for the birth of a child. We planned to do
a
home birth so we got in touch with a professional midwife who has been doing
homebirths for 20 years. On the day she came with her assistant. The birth
went
well and we were chanting Hare Krsna along with Prabhpada on a CD. We also
fed
the midwifes prasadam on the day. After the birth the midwife came for a
visit
and she took a keen interest in the books. She was eagerly looking over them
in
the shop and ended up getting $100 worth of books! The other midwife did not
get any books then, but I met her on the street in her home town some weeks
later and she purchased a Bhagavad Gita.

Also we have had a number of people knocking on our door to sell us
something.
Most of them walk away with a book and some of them are happy to sit down
and
take prasadam with us. So I encourage all Grhastas to keep a good stock of
books in your house because you don’t know who will knock on your
door and you can have them walk away with the supreme benefit; Krsna
conciousness, through Srila Prabhupada’s books.

Your servant, Rupa Raghunatha das
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