Jeff Lynn Acupuncture Center
This is a letter to Sastra Dana from Advaita Prabhu and Sita Mataji, husband and wife, dynamic preachers.
Hare Krishna!
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
My self and my wife Sita Thakurani devi dasi placed our fifth book rack (!) at the acupuncture office of Dr. Jeff Lynn in Chino, California. [...]

Books Make Great Gifts

* December is the time of giving gifts. Are you wondering what to give to your friends, coleagues, business partners, relatives, and everyone else? Wonder no more. Give Srila Prabhupada’s books to one and all. What could be a better gift then a book about Krishna consciousness?
* Giving gifts and charity is [...]

No Fear, Krishna Is Here
Fear, according to the Bhagavat Purana (11.2.37), comes due to a loss of focus.(!!!) When one is absorbed in the thoughts of Krishna there is no fear. When this focus is lost, fear kicks in.
Then how is it that sometimes while trying to serve Krishna, an activity that naturally guides the [...]

“Book a Day” program - an interview with Yamunapati Prabhu.

His Holiness Hridayananda Dasa Goswami
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Oris Erhuero
Oris was born in London in 1968 to a Nigerian family and moved to the United States in 1987. He is a celebrity, a model and an actor.
Gaura Candra Prabhu is an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada who sports distributing books to celebrities, books that are provided to him by the Sastra Dana program. [...]

Liberty To All!
A Day In The Life Of Two Book Distributors
People brag about freedom while continuing to slave to the materialistic desires such as the desire for fame, profit, sex, and adoration. Until one gives up the selfish desires in favor of devotional service to God, one will continue the life devoid of the emancipation [...]

TK
This is an exceprt from the interview we did with TK, or Titiksava Karunika Prabhu. To see the rest of the interview click on the image below.

 
The material world is brutal and people are suffering. They don’t even have an idea that they are suffering. This is the nature of the material world. It is [...]

An Easy & Rewarding Service
The following is an interview with Mandy, an enthusiastic book distributor from San Diego. She works full time as a makeup artist for Mac cosmetics. She manages a Sastra Dana book-rack and weekly places books in a vegetarian restaurant. By this method she’s distributed over 600 books in the last three [...]

His Holiness
Gunagrahi Goswami
In the month of June, 2007, San Diego yatra was graced by the visit of His Holiness Gunagrahi Goswami. Your Sastra Dana reporter was then blessed with an opportunity to interview Maharaja. Maharaja was one of the devotees who had established and developed Iskcon of San Diego. He served as the temple president [...]

Great service opportunity!
Give Krishna to Soldiers
Aristide LaVey is a US Army soldier, a devotee of Sri Krishna. He first found out about the Bhagavad-gita as a child when he received a copy from a sankirtana devotee. Ever since he’s been a regular reader of Srila Prabhupada’s books and a visitor to the Iskcon Los Angeles [...]

Oceanside, San Diego

Chandni Palace - the Indian restaurant where we placed the first rack
 
Bhakta Chris is a very good friend of mine. Chris first met devotees in Balboa Park, San Diego, where he used to go to distribute pamphlets of the animal protection group he was at the time affiliated with. There he kept running [...]

The Most Unusual Library
Hare Krishna! We thought that you guys would be interested to know about the most unusual library that we have ever placed books in.
At the end of March a dozen of us, devotees from San Diego, went to join an interesting event organized by a group of San Diego youngsters. The name of [...]

Alpha Pharmacy
The following is compiled of excerpts from an E-mail message we received from a family that is very enthusiastic about book distribution.
Hare Krishna!
We placed the third book rack on Wednesday, March 21st, at Alpha Pharmacy which is owned by Dinesh Patel, a pharmacist who is Pradeep Prabhu’s friend. (Pradeep is Jyoti’s husband.) The pharmacy [...]