PAMHO! AGTSP!! AGSTG&G!!!
Book Distribution is a unique sadhana that Srila Prabhupada has blessed us with. I had really amazing realizations with BD when I first started in 2004-05. Later on I wanted all my counselees to taste this nectar, but somehow was not able to get the message across & found that the devotees are not really taking enthusiastic interest in practical BD. Some were feeling shy to get across & speak with stranger & had many similar reasons which was affecting their dedication for BD. Last to last Year suddenly one idea inspired me & we decided to organise an exhibition which helped us to distribute more than 500 bks in 4 days. However the expenses did not encouraged us to have it once more. Last year we thought differently & decided to organise a BD Yatra for counselees where we all can go & distribute books for a couple of days. We decided to go to Shirdi on the Year end, but some in-expirience in planning limited us to around 400 MB bks in 1.5 days.
This year however we decided to get along with better planning & organised a 2.5 days of BD on Dutta Jayanti ocassion in a place called Narsimhawadi in Kolhapur district close to Sangli. We heard that lacs of people visit the place on this occasion for a 2 day yatra.We contributed for the travel, stay & prasadam & carried books with us enough to enable us to distribute in 2 days. We had around 18 devotees with us headed by me & inspired by HG Sarvalaxan Pr, one of the VPs from NVCC. Around 10-12 were actively distributing & remaining were supporting with logistics. With an amazing result of around 700 MB bks sold there & around 300 to be delivered in Pune, we managed to hit the count of 1000 MB bks in 2.5 days with 18 devotees in the party.
But there is a silver lining to the story as well. Besides the score of 1000 Bks, there was 1000 tons of purification that happened. Many of the attendees were skeptical about the whole plan, but later on experienced immense bliss. The way BD helps us to purify our heart is to be practically experienced. This is a sadhana that SP has given us... so unique... so wonderful... We may distribute bks in bulk through our contacts, but one-one BD is something amazing that helps us to realize mercy of SP & Krsna... helps us to sacrifice our ego... I would really recommend to pls contemplate in this concept & try & organize BD camps for purification of the devotees & pleasure of SP & Krsna.
While going on a BD camp, be preapred with some handy display with intelligent quotes & images.. Like we had 2 displays, one quoting Sri Narendra Modi with His picture that there is no better gift than the Bhagvad Gita & other a collage of different celebrities accepting BG. This did much of our work. I will soon upload these images on the network for everybody's benefit..
Thankyou very Much,
Hare Krsna!
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