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With Aindra Prabhus inspiration !
In 1987 I spend alot of time with Aindra Prabhu when I went to Vrindavana ,he suggested to do daily Harinama in Copenhagen the Capital of Denmark I had explained to him about the large pedestrian street called "Stroeget " ,He said you should lead it and make everyone go on Harinama daily and chant 8 hours daily .I said there is no way anyone will walk around for 8 hours and chant ,that was in the 70th that is long gone .He said how about you sit down and chant ,and then distribute books and prasadam also .I said sure if the TP and GBC agrees ,we will have all 3 .Because I was just normally focusing on book distribution .So this program actually started either in late 1987 or early 1988 .We would chant 8 hours daily and distribute prasadam, I mostly had to make Halavah and then I offered it to my Narasimha Salagrama sila and Govardhana Sila and Srila Prabhupada .Sometimes it is a bit of a struggle to drag everyone out there ,on the worst day there would be only 3 of us otherwise 7 to 12 devotees daily sometimes more.Hundreds of thousands people walk there every day.So they took prasadam , got books and an invitation to the temple .In 1989 I came to US to help start book distribution again and also I had been asked to lead Kirtanas on the California Padayatra by Lokanath Maharaja .So unfortunatly that program fell apart without me gradually .Now Aindra Prabhu inspired Rama Raya Prabhu to do a similar program in New York that has now been going on for long time .I think this is a good model for giving people books ,Prasadam and the Mahamantra .I have a couple pictures somewhere if I get to that folder one day I will post them .I recall a staff secretary to the Danish Conservative Political party one day came and asked me lots of questions .Some of the ministers had seen us chant many times so they had send to get some books and material about the Hare Krsnas ,he gave me 500 Danish Kroner around 80 US dollars and asked for some books ,I gave him as many I could and he and the other secretary could carry .The Danish Folketing (Danish Parliament )in not far from where we chanted daily ..Another time some college students asked us to come chant for 4 hours at one University and distribute books and prasadam so we went there.Always something was going on.We would actually get lots of donations also mostly from 50 dollars to one time 400 dollars in the basket these donations of course to the temple every Dollar of it, Kroner in Denmark .So I think Aindra Prabhu pushing for these kind of preaching was great, and it was Srila Prabhupadas program also , using the 3 weapons against Maya, Harinama, bookdistribution and Prasadam distribution
As you all know Aindra Prabhu helped establish 24 hours Kirtana in Vrindavana in 1986May be an image of 5 people and text that says 'For more information visit <a href=www.24hourkirtan.com © Krishna Balaram Mandir 24 Hour Kirtan Mandali. C All Rights Reserved.'" />

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