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By Sikhi Mahiti das ( ACBSP )<\/strong> <\/p>\n Within a few more weeks, the annual Book Distribution marathon will begin. During this Christmas season, the materially entangled souls will be enthusiastically spend money for the holidays. They think this will relieve their suffering. But, the vaisnavas know that there is no gift in the mall that will quench the unlimited thirst for material enjoyment. Therefore, they take to the streets, malls, door-to door, and office holiday gatherings to give the gift that will satisfy the whole world, Krsna Consciousness.<\/p>\n The face of the typical book distributor has changed since the early days of ISKCON. The face of a young bhramacari or bhramacarini in the airport or street intersection is changing to a grhastas with a regular job, home, and kids in school. These Weekend Warriors are manning tables in shopping malls with wife and children begging the condition souls to take home the nectar of the spiritual world in the form of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books.<\/p>\n This is a picture of Dindorkar family of ISKCON Atlanta distributing books at the Global mall in Atlanta. It is vey inspiring to see this entire family performing the yuga dharma of sankirtan. They could be out and about enjoy their well deserved weekend doing what other families do on the weekend. But, they are blissfully engaged in fulfilling the desire of Srila Prabhupada by distributing his books.<\/p>\n Even our senior citizen vaisnavas are tasting the nectar of distributing books. Have a look at the photos of Sachisundari dd (jps) distributing books in a parking lot Distributing Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books is the responsibility of every follower of His Divine Grace. We shouldn\u2019t think that it is the temple devotees primary activity. Why should they have all the nectar anyway? Even the vaisnavas in Iraq are distributing books. Let us all, especially the grhastas, start making plans on how we can at least go out for one hour during the Book Distribution marathon of 2008. Every little bit counts. As one devotee said in an email message to the book distribution group; \u201cIf every devotee takes responsibility for purchasing and distributing one book, we will have a large offering to Srila Prabhupada this marathon\u201d. I kinda of took the liberty to paraphrase his remark to fit this holiday book distribution season.<\/p>\n If you can\u2019t go out this year, sponsor a case of books or even one book. Give them to the karmis we interact with in our daily lives. If we meditate on how to distribute a book, Supersoul will show us the way. The Atlanta marathon will kickoff November 23rd, the busiest shopping day of the year in America. Please make plans to go out at some time during this holiday season. For ideas on how to distribute books, visit http:\/\/www.distributebooks.com\/<\/a> maintain by His Grace Vaiseska prabhu (acbsp).<\/p>\n All glories to all the vaisnavas and vaisnavis, all glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.<\/p>\n Brhat Mrdanga Ki Jaya!!!<\/p>\n ys, Sikhi Mahiti das (acbsp) Within a few more weeks, the annual Book Distribution marathon will begin. During this Christmas season, the materially entangled souls will be enthusiastically spend money for the holidays. They think this will relieve their suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","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=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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