nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Dearest Srila Guru Maharaj,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Srila Guru Maharaj.
mukhaṁ karoti vācālaṁ panguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī-caitanyam īśvaram
All glories to the most auspicious 71st Vyasa Puja celebration of Your Divine Grace.
Srila Prabhupada said that enthusiasm is of the essence in our spiritual life to perform the Krishna consciousness preaching activities. He wrote in depth on enthusiasm in The Nectar of Instruction and spoke during the Nectar of Devotion lecture series in the year 1972, in Vrindavan. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur said a that a dead man cannot be a preacher. In the Krishna book, in the Chapter, “Stealing the Garment of the Unmarried Gopi Girls”, Lord Krishna praised the trees in Vrindavan, that they have dedicated their lives to the welfare of others, tolerating all kind of natural disturbances such as hurricane, torrents of rain and scorching heat and piercing cold, just to give everyone shelter. Srila Prabhupada described “They are like a noble person who has sacrificed everything possible—his body, mind, activities, intelligence and words—for the welfare of all living entities.” Srila Prabhupada further describes how everyone should be prepared to do the greatest welfare work, which is to propagate Krishna Consciousness. A preacher needs to learn to be tolerant like the tree and humble like a blade of grass and learn the lessons from the teachings of Lord Krishna and Caitanya through Their disciple succession. I am very grateful and most fortunate that Srila Guru Maharaj is my inspiration, and I learnt from Srila Guru Maharaj on the qualities of an enthusiastic preacher, tolerating all kinds of physical challenges proving that we are not this body, dealing with managerial matters, helping every individual to help to them to overcome their challenges and to become advanced in Krishna consciousness, giving spiritual discourse to all of us every single night selflessly and personally giving care to those who have concerns despite such hectic schedules. It is amazing!
I am very thankful to Srila Guru Maharaj for instilling the book distribution spirit into my heart, which pleases Srila Prabhupada the most. It brought my heart so much and so much closer to Srila Prabhupada. Everytime we go on Sankirtan, we pray every second to Srila Prabhupada, and this made us to depend on Srila Prabhupada’s mercy for everything that happens in our life! During the Book Distribution Awards this year, Srila Guru Maharaj said that the book distribution is the modern lila of Lord Caitanya. Srila Guru Maharaj also said that you like to hear Sankirtan stories. Srila Guru Maharaj said that when one performs book distribution preaching activities, he gets forgiven for so many offences and it is quickest way to go back to Godhead! I felt so so happy to hear it! I have the greatest inspiration, who is my spiritual master who keeps my heart always enthused, even on the days that I am down. It is a challenge to me, to be a single lady to deal with material working life and there are many crazy things that bothers the mind. Sometimes I get burnt out, but I think how my spiritual master shows by example, and that pushes me to go out to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books. I wish to participate in the vapu-seva, which is hard to get as everything is controlled, but Srila Guru Maharaj is so merciful to give so many vani-seva, and when we try to even perform some menial service, it is so blissful. Although it broke my heart, many times, due to all the restrictions put forward to some of us to meet you, but what keeps me going is Srila Prabhupada’s words:
Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972:
"Next you ask if I am present in my picture and form? Yes. In form as well as in teachings. To carry out the teachings of guru is more important than to worship the form, but none of them should be neglected. Form is called vapu and teachings is called vani. Both should be worshiped. Vani is more important than vapu."
I take inspiration from your godbrother, HG Vaisesika prabhu, from his book “Our Family Business” and follow his lectures on Facebook and personally spoke to him in Sri Vrindavan Dham to improve the book preaching activities. He is one the sweetest inspirational book distributor that I have met. I take the association of book distributers all around the world, also follow their Facebook newsfeed, like the HG Ramesvara prabhu, HG Drumila Prabhu, NYC Harinam team, HG Shastrakrit Prabhu and many others, they are all very inspirational to me.
For the pleasure of Sri Sri Radhe Shyam, Gaura Nitai, Srila Prabhupada and Srila Guru Maharaj, below are the book distribution scores by both myself and my beloved mother, HG Indira Lakshmi Narasimha Devi Dasi for the year 2019:
1 Caitanya Caritamrta set
3 Srimad Bhagavatam sets
Maha & Big Books: 92 books
- Bhagavad Gita: 67 copies
- Krishna books: 24 copies
- Nectar of Devotion: 1
Medium Books: 104 books
- The Science of Self-Realization: 32 copies
- The Teachings of Queen Kunti: 20 copies
- Teachings of Lord Caitanya: 9 copies
- Teachings of Lord Kapila-The Son of Devahuti: 8 copies
- The Quest for Enlightenment: 3 copies
- The Journey of Self-Discovery: 3 copies
- Second Chance:15 copies
- Life comes from Life: 11 copies
- Gita-Mahatmya: 2 copies
- Renunciation Through Wisdom: 1 copy
Small Books: 199 books
- The Law of Nature: 6 copies
- On the Way to Krsna: 17 copies
- Beyond Birth and Death: 13 copies
- The Hare Krishna Challenge: 1 copy
- The Perfection of Yoga: 10 copies
- The Path of Perfection: 10 copies
- Civilization and Transcendence: 3 copies
- Krishna Consciousness, The Matchless Gift: 9 copies
- The Nectar of Instruction:2 copies
- Perfect Questions Perfect Answers: 19 copies
- Elevation to Krishna Consciousness: 22 copies
- Raja-Vidya, The King of Knowledge: 10 copies
- Krishna Consciousness, The Topmost Yoga System: 6 copies
- Coming Back: 6 copies
- Easy Journey to Other Planets: 10 copies
- Message of Godhead: 10 copies
- Transcendental Teachings of Prahlada Maharaja: 5 copies
- Krishna, the Reservoir of Pleasure: 10 copies
- Other small books: 30 copies
Grand Total : 1 set of Caitanya Caritamrta, 3 sets of Srimad Bhagavatam, 395 transcendental literatures.
- Participated in the Bhadra Purnima Campaign, Damodara Masa Book Distribution and Book Marathon Dec 2019.
- Visited total of 122 homes on door to door Sankirtan at the following areas: Danau Kota Flats, PPR Flats Desa Renjang, Enggang Flats Puchong, Pinggiran Batu Caves, Taman Batu Caves, OUG Market place
- Made total of 23 visits to temple: Krishna Temple Brickfields, Sri Rama Lingeswarar Temple Bangsar, Perumal Temple Puchong, Ganesh Temple Ampang & Ramar Temple Selayang
I seek for Srila Guru Maharaj’s blessings that someday by the mercy of Lord Caitanya, I would be a full-time book distributor. I pray to Srila Guru Maharaj to please help me to give me intelligence on how to expand the book distribution activities all around Malaysia or whichever places that Lord Krishna wants me to perform the Sankirtan activities. I beg for forgiveness to Srila Guru Maharaj for all offences that I have done and please give me blessings that I will always serve Srila Prabhupada and increase my love for his book distribution services, as my life and soul preaching activity. It is my happiness, it is nectar, ecstatic, it is like being in Sri Vrindavan Dham. And as the phrase goes, “With the Guru’s mercy, impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools”. All glories to my dearmost spiritual father!
Your spiritual daughter and servant of Sankirtan,
Malini Priti Devi Dasi
Sri Jagannatha Mandir Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia