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Harinama with Book Distribution.
\nKaruna Dharini dasi: Some time ago I tried distributing books at UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles). Before long I was dreading my encounters with the kids there \u2014 they were so smart, so quick, so elite, and so uninterested in taking Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books. I wouldn\u2019t go back there again. They are like great yogis in that their attention on their education is unwavering. Their textbooks probably contain information that they personally formulated in their last life. My mother graduated from UCLA, and because I didn\u2019t she was never very pleased with me. (Very recently, old age and disease have softened her beautiful heart and she can chant a little.)
\nRecently I and two other matajis were doing harinama at UCLA with harmonium and kartals. I didn\u2019t want to go, but they talked me into it. The girls\u2019 voices sounded very good \u2014 in tune, accompanied by nice instruments. The girls sounded like true angels, and some of the UCLA students were distracted from their academic trance by the fine singing and playing. We also passed out halavah.
\nI put up my book table, and it was another sankirtan miracle! I spoke to two biology majors \u2014 one guy, one girl \u2014 who each took the new \u201cOrigins\u201d magazine the North American BBT has reprinted (thanks to Ramesvara Prabhu), and they gave quite generously. One elderly professor of engineering took a Gita for $10. He said he wanted to read it next year when he retires.
\nOne young man was very thrilled to see the \u201cBhagavad-gita As It Is.\u201d He said had his own Gita, by another author. He quoted from it several times. When he said, \u201cOne\u2019s self can be one\u2019s own worst enemy or one\u2019s own best friend,\u201d I took the opportunity to show him the proper translation of the verse in the Sixth Chapter of \u201cAs It Is.\u201d He bought Prabhupada\u2019s immediately.
\nThen there was a student who takes all his courses on line but was checking in at the UCLA campus for the day. He is a traveling entrepreneur who wants to get his degree while he flies around doing business in every major city of the world. I showed him the ISKCN addresses at the back of the Gita. He loved the sound of the harinama. He listened for a whole hour! He plans to visit our temples in India.
\nHarinama and university preaching go very well together. Often students who have muscial skills sit down with the harinama and pick up the instruments, and they\u2019re fascinated. Often they can play and sing quite well. I would like to please urge all Vaisnava youth and anyone who else does excellent harinama to please take it where it will be very well received. Take it to the universities. Inside temples is fine, but the tastiest nectar has not yet been tasted by you!
\nThank you,
\nYour Servant,
\nKaruna Dharini dasi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Harinama with Book Distribution.
\nKaruna Dharini dasi: Some time ago I tried distributing books at UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles). Before long I was dreading my encounters with the kids there — they were so smart, so quick, so elite, and so uninterested in taking Srila Prabhupada’s books. I wouldn’t go back there again. They are like great yogis in that their attention on their education is unwavering. Their textbooks probably contain information that they personally formulated in their last life. My mother graduated from UCLA, and because I didn’t she was never very pleased with me. (Very recently, old age and disease have softened her beautiful heart and she can chant a little.)
\nRecently I and two other matajis were doing harinama at UCLA with harmonium and kartals. I didn’t want to go, but they talked me into it. The girls’ voices sounded very good — in tune, accompanied by nice instruments. The girls sounded like true angels, and some of the UCLA students were distracted from their academic trance by the fine singing and playing. We also passed out halavah.
\nI put up my book table, and it was another sankirtan miracle! I spoke to two biology majors — one guy, one girl — who each took the new “Origins” magazine the North American BBT has reprinted (thanks to Ramesvara Prabhu), and they gave quite generously. One elderly professor of engineering took a Gita for $10. He said he wanted to read it next year when he retires.
\nOne young man was very thrilled to see the “Bhagavad-gita As It Is.” He said had his own Gita, by another author. He quoted from it several times. When he said, “One’s self can be one’s own worst enemy or one’s own best friend,” I took the opportunity to show him the proper translation of the verse in the Sixth Chapter of “As It Is.” He bought Prabhupada’s immediately.
\nThen there was a student who takes all his courses on line but was checking in at the UCLA campus for the day. He is a traveling entrepreneur who wants to get his degree while he flies around doing business in every major city of the world. I showed him the ISKCN addresses at the back of the Gita. He loved the sound of the harinama. He listened for a whole hour! He plans to visit our temples in India.
\nHarinama and university preaching go very well together. Often students who have muscial skills sit down with the harinama and pick up the instruments, and they’re fascinated. Often they can play and sing quite well. I would like to please urge all Vaisnava youth and anyone who else does excellent harinama to please take it where it will be very well received. Take it to the universities. Inside temples is fine, but the tastiest nectar has not yet been tasted by you!
\nThank you,
\nYour Servant,
\nKaruna Dharini dasi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38923,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions\/38923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}