ISKCON Baltimore’s Jiva Daya Sankirtana Team has been distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books in many creative ways over the years, including placing them in prison libraries and motels. This year so far, for instance, they have put 500 books in prisons, and 13,000 Bhagavad-gitas in motel drawers.
In June 2016, after brainstorming more ways to share Prabhupada’s books, a five-person team was created to place them in hospitals and hospices.
Bhakti-lata Dasi, Tarini Ganga Dasi, Prema-Dhama Das, Shyama-Bhakti Dasi, and Bhaktin Hema all have jobs and families, and do the service in their spare time.
“One of our main inspirations was the book Life’s Final Exam: Death and Dying from a Vedic Perspective, edited by Giriraja Swami,” says Tarini Ganga. “It describes how in hospitals and hospices people are suffering so much, and how their families are so emotionally drained. Reading this description, we were inspired to approach health centers so that patients can read some spiritual knowledge and at least feel some kind of peace before they leave.”
So far this year, the team has placed 284 books in hospitals and hospices around the Maryland area, as well as in Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, New York and North Carolina.
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