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\u2014 His Grace Bhrigupati Prabhu joined ISKCON in April, 1973, at the famous Henry Street temple in Brooklyn, New York. Almost immediately he took up the service of distributing Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books, encouraged by Romapada Dasa brahmacari.
\n\u2014 Bhrigupati recalls asking Srila Prabhupada (at the end of a Bhagavad-gita class) to say something about the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Srila Prabhupada replied, \u201cIt is already said, param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam! So continue doing sankirtana and you will be victorious!\u201d
\n\u2014 Bhrigupati\u2019s name prior to initiation was Jeffrey Solomon. After the class some of the devotees congratulated Bhakta Jeff upon having received his lifelong mission from Srila Prabhupada. Bhrigupati has been distributing books practically every day since then.
\n\u2014 ISKCON book distribution records show that from 1996 to the end of 2022 Bhrigupati distributed more than 500,000 books! Records from 1973 to 1996 are incomplete, but Bhrigupati estimates that during that period he distributed another 500,000 books! So, from 1973 till the present he has distributed more than 1,000,000 books!
\n\u2014 At age 71 he shows little sign of slowing down and continues to go out five days a week. Competing against good distributors, many less than half his age, Bhrigupati was the top distributor in New Dvaraka for 2022. His totals: 3,813 small; 3,427 medium; 5,827 big; 18,837 maha-big; and 22 sets (SB & CC). For the year he collected $76,591. May Srila Prabhupada bless Bhrigupati Prabhu to continue his book distribution at least until age 108!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2014 His Grace Bhrigupati Prabhu joined ISKCON in April, 1973, at the famous Henry Street temple in Brooklyn, New York. Almost immediately he took up the service of distributing Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books, encouraged by Romapada Dasa brahmacari. \u2014 Bhrigupati recalls asking Srila Prabhupada (at the end of a Bhagavad-gita class) to say something about the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105775,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105774\/revisions\/105775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}