Scholar from Maine gets Perfection of Yoga

[Paramananda das]

PAMHO

AGTSP

 Yesterday while on my way on sankirtana I met this nice gentleman from Maine, turns out he is a professor of literature from Maine. And I started to preach to him as he asked

me many questions about the Vedas and Bhagavad Gita etc.I only had " Perfection of yoga's" with me as these are the books I distribute.And I gave him a Jagannatha sticker with

Vedabase.net on the side and he was very thankful and excited and said he  was going to read Bhagavad Gita as it is on line and the book I had given him.Book distribution is so important not because I am doing it but because it is Srila Prabhupadas instructions: 

Here is a whole bunch in one go:

My first concern is that my books shall be published and distributed profusely all over the world. Practically books are the basis for our movement. Without books, our preaching will have no effect. These books and magazines are our most important propaganda weapons to defeat the ignorance of Maya's army, and the more we produce such literature and sell it profusely al over the world, the more we shall deliver the world from its suicide course. So your work is the most important preaching work. May Krishna bless you more and more. Thank you for helping me in this way. These books are the life of human society…. We are putting these books for deliberation before the topmost thinkers of human society. Therefore I have to see that in all languages all of our books are published. If we strain, and if someone takes one book home, some day people will come to understand what valuable knowledge they have received. It is transcendental literature. Krishna consciousness is the absolute need of the present day society, and there are many people who will come to join us if we simply make these teachings of Bhagavad-Gita and the rest of the Vedic literature available to them. This is our greatest weapon. Our first business is this book distribution. There is no need of any other business. If this book distribution is managed properly, pushed on with great enthusiasm and determination and at the some time if our men keep spiritually strong, then the whole world will become Krishna Conscious. I am very pleased to hear that you are increasing your distribution for our books. This is a good sign that your preaching work is also strong. The more you increase your strength in preaching, the more you will go on selling books. I want especially that my books be distributed widely. Your plans for increasing both distribution are very good…Distribution of all these books is making a firm basis for our movement. Our literatures are unique in the world…. and someday the world will realize and appreciate these transcendental literature. To distribute books is our most important activity. The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. “Fight with maya” means to drop thousands and millions of books into the top of the conditional souls. You have taken seriously the publishing and also the distribution of these books and that is the success of our mission. You have taken seriously this work, and I know that my Guru Maharaja is pleased with you because he wanted this. So by this endeavor you will all go back home, back to Godhead. 

  

Srila Prabhupada over and over and over again wrote and stated: "Our first business is this book distribution. There is no need of any other business."

Instead "we" in ISKCON have also taken to marriage of non devotees ,gas drilling and other things that displease Srila Prabhupada.If we simply distribute his books Krsna will maintain us and ISKCON.I have full faith in this.See also Srila Prabhupadas letter to Lalita Kumar 15 November 1971 where he has stated the same. 

 your humble servant

Payonidhi das