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.

4.0 Deli is a restaurant/bar close to the San Diego State University and it is a popular hang-out place for the SDSU students. Sastra Dana has a newspaper rack there. In these photos you will see Radhika Devi Dasi and a fellow that Radhika and Rohini found at the restaurant. He was reading our publication.

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Nimai Mataji, is the wife of Guru Krishna Prabhu, and a mother of three Vaishnavas. Here are a few nice shots of her distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books on harinam in San Diego.

This was taken during the wild fires in the San Diego area in 2007. Madhu Mangala Dasa was distributing books to the people who lost their homes to the wild fires.

Mataji Kurvanti Devi Dasi hands, on behalf of Sastra Dana, a set of Srila Prabhupada’s books to the chaplain of the Ventura Correctional facility. The books are going to be made available to the inmates for reading and studying.

I, Mahat-tattva Dasa, took this picture in a tattoo parlor in San Diego. I went there to place Srila Prabhupada’s books in the shop’s lobby when I ran into a fellow who said had an image from one of our books tattooed across his back. He took me to a back room to show his [...]

We don’t know the story behind this picture. We ran into it somewhere on the Internet. We found it very blissful and wanted to share it with you. The shot was taken somewhere in Russia.

The second issue of the 16Rounds to Samadhi newspaper is printed! 20,000 copies are waiting to be distributed all over the San Diego and Los Angeles areas.
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Advaita Candra Dasa and his wife Sita Thakurani Devi Dasi have planted another book rack. This one went to the medical office of Dr. Shubhangi S. Godbole, in La Mirada, a city southeast of Los Angeles and north of Long Beach. Here is the letter from Advaita and Sita. [...]

Srila Prabhupada used to call the youth of America, the flowers of this country. Here are a few pictures of a group of hitch-hiking youth who we ran into in Encenitas, a beach town north of San Diego.

This was taken in Encinitas, a beach town just a few miles north of San Diego, where the yoga scene and interest in encient India are prominent.

She is reading the first issue ever of the 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper. To learn about the newspaper, the latest from your favorite program, the Sastra Dana, read the latest issue of our newsletter.

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