In Every Town and Village

BOOK DISTRIBUTION MARATHON 2012 – TANZANIA

EVERY TOWN…EVERY VILLAGE

LEG 1: TANGA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, MOROGORO

29^TH November 2012

Dear Prabhus,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to transcendental Book Distribution.

Hare Krishna! By the mercy of our spiritual master H. H. Gopal Krishna Goswami and the guidance of our Regional Secretary H. G. Umapati Prabhu we have successfully completed Leg 1 of our book distribution tour across Tanzania. We distributed 1305 books including books in Swahili. Breakdown as follows:

Small books: 1020

Medium books: 250

Maha books: 35

Please find photos below. The books were mainly distributed in public libraries, medical institutes, schools, colleges and Universities. Continue reading

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Receptive Traveller

On the bus, en route to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa, we stopped at a rest stop.

Coming back into the bus, I noticed a young man, and said to him: “By the way you are dressed, it looks like you are on your way to the Grahamstown Arts Festival.”

He replied that he was going to the festival, and his accent sounded Spanish. So I greeted him in Spanish, and he said that he is from Brazil. I introduced myself, telling him that I am a traveling monk and that I am also going to the festival. I told him that I teach yoga and philosophy.

I asked him if he had ever seen any Hare Krishna devoteess in Brazil. Continue reading “Receptive Traveller”

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Report from Malawi

Malawi, in Africa, is a place where very few have heard of Krsna. But there are many people here who are always ready to buy the books, and as soon as they look at them, they say how beautiful they are.

Once I went into a bakery named Ali Baba Bakery and showed the books to the fair-skinned man at the cash counter. His name was Nicholas and he was immediately interested. He took SSR, Raja Vidya, Beyond Birth and Death, and Perfection of Yoga. He paid half the amount and asked me to come and collect the other half on the next day. Continue reading “Report from Malawi”

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Nectar for the Nation

Submitted by Ranga devi dasi On Harinama I approached an African guy with a book in Zulu entitled “Ngale Kwethuna Nogkuphila” (Beyond birth and death). I explained it’s contents, hoping he would take the book. Eventually he said that he had no money but would like the book and held on to it with his dear life. “What about a little donation” I said. He … Continue reading Nectar for the Nation

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Sankirtana Update from Benoni/Springs Namahatta

Dear Devotees, Please click on the link below for a Sankirtana updates from the Benoni and Springs Namahatta. Your servant, Dhesan and devotees (ISKCON Springs/Benoni Namahatta) Jan – April 2012 Continue reading Sankirtana Update from Benoni/Springs Namahatta

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Report From Malawi

Submitted by Murari Dasa
Iskcon Blantyre

( Editors Note: The author Murari Prabhu, has been preaching practically alone for
the last two years in one of the world’s poorest countries.)

Bhakta Ram has become very keen for any opportunity to distribute books, and so he joins me on weekend book distribution excursions.

On the first weekend of March Bhakta Ram and I rode by car about

four hours to the shore of Lake Malawi, to a town called Mangochi, the main holiday-resort town in this country. Bhakta Ram took one of his company cars and a driver. Since the following Monday was a holiday, it was a long weekend. Mangochi is a predominantly Muslim town, but the people there are all liberal and friendly. The driver told us that when the Arabs used to travel to the African interior from the East African coast this town was a stop-over point, and that explains its predominantly Muslim population. Continue reading “Report From Malawi”

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House to House in Malawi

Submitted by Murari Dasa
Iskcon Blantyre

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

A few weeks back we started going house to house on Sundays, here in Blantyre, Malawi. With me was Bhakta Ram, an expatriate Indian professional who started attending Bhagavad-gita classes about one and a half years ago and who subsequently took up the process of Krishna consciousness.

So far we have gone out on 4 Sundays. On the first Sunday that we went out we were used as instruments for giving out two books. I had gone house to house in India for at least about two years in the South. But this was Malawi, in Africa, worlds apart. I didn’t know what to expect or what to say or how to present myself and the books. And so I just followed whatever we did in India and then tried to adjust accordingly. Continue reading “House to House in Malawi”

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Excerpt from Madhumangala’s Preaching Diary

Submitted by Madhumangala Dasa Dar es Salaam Diary Entry 1st March 2012 This morning I went to Prakash Prabhu’s office to get more Swahili Science of Self Realizations. Outside there were some men sitting and having a conversation – when they saw the books, they became curious and asked me what type of books they were. Just next to me was a table with some … Continue reading Excerpt from Madhumangala’s Preaching Diary

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Law Books for the next 10 000 years

Submitted by Madhumangala Dasa
Dar es Salaam
Diary Entry 28th February 2012

I had a blissful day distributing books in downtown Dar es Salaam. The main street was a hive of activity – taxis, busses, a huge sea of people coming and going, street vendors on every corner selling everything from belts, wallets to exotic fruits of all kinds.

People would stare at me with a curious look, but all the time smiling and greeting me. I stopped one barrister on his way to court, dressed in his court dress, and traditional white shirt and neck tie. I began to speak to him and told him the reason the laws are not working, is because Continue reading “Law Books for the next 10 000 years”

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A Pat on the Shoulder

Submitted by Dwarka Vasini ( Nairobi ) This was one of the worst days on sankirtan, no one was stopping. I had been struggling for over an hour and half, alone, without any luck. I was feeling restless, and was pacing to and fro on the street. So many thoughts were going on through my mind. Why was I on the street? The only Indian … Continue reading A Pat on the Shoulder

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