This is Kevin, a cool guy I met at our temple in San Diego. He at the time worked at Lucky D’s hostel in downtown. He helped us place our newspaper rack in the hostel.

Lots of great news from your favorite program, Sastra Dana!!!
Our publication, 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper, has been growing. We now print 30,000 copies per issue. That is 10,000 copies more than what we used to print. We are now making significant presence in the streets and shopping malls of San Diego and Los Angeles. [...]

Lots of great news from your favorite program, Sastra Dana!!! Our publication, 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper, has been growing. We now print 30,000 copies per issue. That is 10,000 copies more than what we used to print. We are now making significant presence in the streets [...]

Sastra Dana’s publication, 16Rounds to Samadhi, is one of the very few printed materials produced to reach out to the non-devotee audiences. The latest issue, issue five, is printing as we speak (type). Here you can preview it before it hits the streets of San Diego and Los Angeles, bringing people spiritual education. To sponsor [...]

For the past several days we’ve been graced by the presence of His Holiness Danavir Goswami. While down here in San Diego, Maharaja noticed our publication, the 16Rounds to Samadhi newspaper. He enquired about it from us, looked at it, and saw the newspaper racks that are being placed by Sastra Dana all over the [...]

“The Smell” is a club in Los Angeles downtown. It seems to be a place of gathering for artists, musicians, youth, and creative folks.
For the past several weeks I’ve been corresponding on facebook with a fellow who just turned eighteen. He has become a devotee of Krishna and that is what we had in common [...]

We have a newspaper rack in front of Henry’s in Pacific Beach, San Diego. Henry’s is is one the largest health food stores in San Diego and, as you can see, our rack is right by the entrance door.

We have just published the fourth issue of the 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper. We’ve printed 20,000 copies, plenty to feed the numerous racks we have in San Diego and Los Angeles. Preview it here:
To make a donation towards printing of the 16Rounds newspaper, click this icon:

Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Patita Uddharana Dec. 8, I97I
This routine work, such as chanting, speaking, rising early, cleaning, cooking and offering prasadam, arati, reading books–these activities are the backbone of our Society, and if we practice them nicely in a regulative manner, then our whole program will be successful. If we become slack or neglect [...]

Bhakta Tyler and a few other brahmacaries ran into a fellow who learned about Krishna consciousness by reading the Sastra Dana publication, 16Rounds to Samadhi newspaper.

Carolina (Nancy) Escala came to learn about Krishna consciousness by reading the 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper, a Sastra Dana publication. She was happy to give us this short interview.

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At Santa Monica college a woman greeted me and asked if I was there
for “Career Day.” I said no, thank you, I was probably not on her list.
I set up my book table about twenty feet away from where I usually
would. My usual spot was filled with tables representing the Army, Navy,
Police Dept., Fire Dept., [...]

Devotees of ISKCON of Silicon Valley distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books.

About a week before Gita Jayanti, one devotee in Bombay went out to distribute
Srimad Bhagavad Gita. At one place, he knocked the door but no one replied. He
did not give up and again knocked the door, still it was unanswered. With firm
determination to distribute Bhagavad Gita, he again knocked with a much
greater force. At this [...]

Dear devotees, here are a few more videos of devotees in action, distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books.