October/November issue of the 16 Rounds To Samadhi is printed. Order your copies at $0.20 a copy or buy the electronic file for local printing. CONTACT US

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Everyone, quickly, please pray. We may be able to place our publication, 16Rounds, in all Jamba Juice stores in California. We are talking to their corporate office and will give you more details about it soon.

February issue of our free magazine, 16 Rounds To Samadhi, is out. Please consider making a donation. All our staff members are volunteers. All donations are used exclusivelly to cover the printing cost. www.sastradana.com/donate/donate-online

. SEEKING DONATIONS Please consider making a donation towards printing of future issues of this publication. We are also seeking donations towards purchases of more newspaper racks/stands. BUY Buy copies of the newspaper for local distribution at $0.20 a piece + shipping. Contact us to place an order. All proceeds go towards covering the cost [...]

Thank you to the following donors who financially supported the Sastra Dana program between September and November of 2010. Maha Muni Prabhu $1,008.00 Esekiel Jaggernauth $600.00 Jnana Bhakti Prabhu $300.00 Jay Krishna & Lila $290.00 Sridhar Prabhu $251.00 Randy & Kripa Mayi $210.00 Mukherjee $133.00 Mayesvara Prabhu $108.00 Anonymous $108.00 Andrew Hunter $101.00 Haricharan Reddy [...]

The following is a synopses of actual phone calls received at the BBT office in Los Angeles. They testify the glory of Srila Prabhupada’s books. Beau M. (Vancouver, WA) I’m originally from the Los Angeles area but I’m visiting my cousin in Vancouver, Washington, due to the current ecomomic downturn. Several years ago I got [...]

Latest issue, issue 6, of the 16 Rounds To Samadhi newspaper is printed! 30,000 copies are about to hit the streets of San Diego. Additional 5,000 are going to Los Angeles and several more thousands are going to a few other places in the States. 16 Rounds is one of the very few ISKCON publications [...]

The fact of the matter is that our budget is not awfully too fat. It takes about $1,000 a month, or $3,000 a quarter, to run the Sastra Dana program. About $2,500 a quarter is spent for buying books and printing the 16Rounds newspaper. Remaining $500 is spent on printing and mailing the Sastra Dana [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]