Book-racks Bring Customers Into the Shop Mr. Baweja has been keeping a Sastra Dana book-rack in his shop for over a year now. Besides getting the pleasure of performing this vital service, he says that the rack brings customers to his shop. The following is a short excerpt from an interview we recently did with [...]

Dumbed Down, Doped Up, and Distracted This article’s title is also the name of a compelling video recently added to our website. Just who is dumbed down, doped up, and distracted? I guess lots of people on this planet, but specifically our fellow Americans. Illegal drugs, sex and its industry, the movie and entertainment industry, [...]

The Amin Family The cover image is misleading. The title of the text is “The Amin Family” but the cover picture doesn’t show the Amin family. It shows only Monique Amin, the daughter of Pradeep Prabhu and Jyoti Mataji. Monique is on the far left. The rest of the people are a medical crew Monique [...]

Empowerment Kaunteya Prabhu, a disciple of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami is the secretary of the ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry. In our recent conversation in San Diego, he told us that one of the aims of the Ministry is to encourage the empowerment of all the home based devotees, especially in the activities of giving spiritual [...]

USA Hostels A hostel in downtown San Diego Bhakta Pedro was first exposed to Krishna consciousness in Portugal, the country where he grew up. At one point he moved to the US where he spent the first couple of years traveling and enjoying himself. Eventually he settled down in Ocean Beach, one of the towns [...]

People’s Co-op Organic Foods Market in San Diego People’s Co-op of San Diego is located in Ocean Beach, one of the several beaches in this city. It sells organic foods and is one of the most popular food markets in San Diego. The whole town of Ocean Beach is characterized by alternative and open mindedness. [...]

Look Everywhere You Go, Instead of Going Everywhere To Look By Shyama Priya Devi Dasi Shyama Priya I was in the hospital for three days last week for jaundice. I am better now. I had a blocked bile duct and distributed a few books while I was there. One of my nurses saw my bead [...]

Fired Up Pujari A story of a pujari book distributor To see video click image: My name is Dharmasetu Dasa. I am a disciple of Srila Prabhupada. I joined in Boston in 1973 and I came here to San Diego in 1977 for a visit and never went back. I’ve served here at this temple [...]

You Can’t Sit Idly To Show Your Gorgeousness, You Must Preach An appropriate meditation for the upcoming appearance day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu “My spiritual master wanted me to preach. I did not like it, but he forced me.”- His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada Preach now! The world needs to hear the teachings of Lord [...]

Missionary Spirit Bhakta Mike is one of the latest new devotees at Iskcon of San Diego. An activist at heart and a spiritual seeker, Bhakta Mike quickly found our temple attractive and the Sastra Dana missionary activities appealing. Follows an excerpt from an intervew with Bk. Mike. ============================================== SD: How did you come to know [...]

Annual Report 2007 Donations: San Diego Donors ($19,473.30): 1. Anonymous $3,633.12 2. Vraja Vadhu Mataji $1,367.00 3. Bhakta Vatshal Prabhu $1,082.40 4. Yamunapati & Jaysri Mataji $1,042.00 5. Bhakta Randy & Kripa Mayi $1,033.00 6. Ambarish Prabhu $1,000.00 7. Krishna Priya & Navin Jani $875.51 8. Jivananda Prabhu $642.04 9. Ram Parashar $607.09 10. Manish [...]

Without Sankirtana Life Is Boring This excerpt from the interview with Vaisesika Prabhu should give you a valuable information about an essintal thing: how to build up and maintain enthusiasm in spiritual life in general and missionary endeavors in particular. Buckle up, we are taking off. . VIDEO: ================================================ Vaisesika Prabhu “Krishna will personally show [...]

Book Rack Addiction This is an excerpt from an interview with Bhaktin Lori Formicola. To see the complete video click on image: “Once you get one rack out, you want to put another one, and another one, and another one. It becomes an addiction.” Lori: Book distribution is very important to me. I am going [...]