Dear Mahabhagavat Prabhu,
Thank you very much for your detailed marathon report. It's very enlivening and very motivating every time I read it. Its amazing that you can keep yourself going during the full marathon period despite of odd weather and circumstances.
I totally agree with you that India is much more pouplated than Canada or other countries and has upper edge and moreover most of the people here at least believe in God or some power, even though most of them are confused about who the Supreme Personality of Godhead is. Actually a surrendered devotee find advantage in disadvantageous position also like cold weather, less people, people of other faiths, communist countries etc. and where there is advantage he just goes rocking. I have seen devotees distributing numbers of books in the same place where other less sincere one's can hardly distribute even a single one. While distributing I felt it to be a continuous process and if we distribute occasionally like once a year or twice, thrice a year then it seems like a steep hill to most of the people like me.
I did not join Bhagvad Gita marathon because of winters here which I know is nothing in comparison to Canada or other freezing countries. But when only 8-9 days left for the marathon to end, I just could not stop myself from joning the devotees. The last 8-9 days I went in a row, out of which 5 days I bunked from Office. I used to bunk from office some years back too but that was for watching bollywood movies, so this time I thought why not take risk for Srila Prabhupada instead of Bollywood.
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