Book Distribution in East London

Last week in East London, I a met a very nice African student at the Vincent shopping mall. I introduced myself to him and told him that I was a traveling monk and that I taught yoga and philosophy.  “That’s interesting,” he said, “As a matter of a fact I am very glad to have met you. You know what’s amazing, just before you came while sitting here I was thinking about serendipity.” I showed him a selection of books and told him that they were text books of higher knowledge. I began preaching about self realization and the difference between the soul and the temporary material body. I began to notice as I spoke to him, he seemed to understand everything that I told him; in fact it was almost if he were a devotee. I told him about the importance of chanting and of association and gave him a chant and be happy. He thanked me, and said he felt that it was by no chance he had met me. I gave me my email address, cell phone number and an invitation to the Wednesday program. The very next day, I was amazed to receive this email:   Continue reading “Book Distribution in East London”

Big news from the Far East/Middle East division of the BBT

 

reposted from book distribution group

Hare Krsna,
Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
In a historical first for all BBT divisions worldwide, we are extremely excited to be offering for sale, beginning this month, the first nine (of an eventual thirty-six) very specially designed foreign language titles produced by the Far East/Middle East division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (www.bbtfeme. com). Several years in the making, the cover designs for all these titles were carefully researched to strongly appeal to—and sell tons of books to!—the millions of people from Far Eastern and Middle Eastern backgrounds who are living in the large ethnic communities of our cities, or visiting by the millions as foreign tourists, or earnestly studying within the thousands of colleges and universities throughout the world. 

Continue reading “Big news from the Far East/Middle East division of the BBT”