Hare Krsna Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On the third and last day of the 2011 book distribution seminars in Mayapur. Kavichandra Swami said, "There's never enough book distribution. Sometimes devotees say, 'We've distributed so many books, so where are the devotees who are supposed to come from book distribution?' But we're distributing for the pleasure of the spiritual master and the previous acaryas, and that is all we really need to do. If there is a result if devotees come from book distribution then wonderful, but if there is no apparent result, then it is still wonderful because we are following the order of the spiritual master. If we please Srila Prabhupada, then our life is perfect. And he wants us to distribute books. We don't know what the long-term effect will be. We hear so many stories of a person having a book for twenty years or more and then he or someone else reads it and becomes a devotee.
"We want these books to be distributed in every town and village all over the world. Not everyone can go out individually, but as Vaisesika Prabhu has been encouraging devotees to do all over the world, if you have a Monthly Sankirtan Festival where a lot of people do a little bit, it becomes a lot and many more books can be distributed.
"When we go out we meet so many nice people. Sometimes people are actually looking for the Bhagavad Gita, but mostly people are happy to meet devotees and take books from them. Everyone is looking for Krsna. He's the reservoir of all pleasure.
"The Bhagavad Gita teaches people about what to do and what not to do. The demons don't know what to do and what not to do; they're not clean their minds are filthy dirty, so the activities they think of are unclean. But by reading Prabhupada's books they get purified.
"Prabhupada said that even if they just touch a book they get purified. I remember distributing books in the Chicago airport, one of the busiest in the world. Most of the people we would approach wouldn't take a book. In fact, very few would. We would hand them the books and try to get them to take them and give a donation, but they would almost always hand them back. But we became very enlivened by remembering Prabhupada's statement, since so many people were touching the books every day. So we would try to get more people to touch the books, without worrying whether they took them or not. But we found that more people would take the books because they touched them; they had come in touch with Krsna.
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