superior devotee preaches

January 1, 2007

As far as the field of spiritual activities is concerned, when a devotee is

self-satisfied and does not preach the glories of Krsna, he is not

considered a first-class devotee. A devotee who tries to preach, who has

compassion upon innocent persons who have no knowledge of Krsna, is a

superior devotee. In his prayer to the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja said that he

was not personally interested in liberation from this material world;

rather, he did not wish to be liberated from this material condition until

all fallen souls were delivered. Even in the material field, if a person is

not interested in others' welfare, he should be considered to be condemned

by the Personality of Godhead or His incarnation like Prthu Maharaja.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 4.17.26

January 4, 2007

Thank you Maharaja for this inspiring quote.

We must always bear in mind - that preaching was, is and must always be

rooted in the distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books.

What will our twenty minute sermon produce without leaving the listener with

the words of His Divine Grace?

I thought you might relish the following as much as I did:

"Regarding your question, actually it is a fact that ultimately

everyone

should preach and distribute books if they want to please me in the

best

way. Book distribution must be given stress always. He has spoken the

right

thing. If you do this sincerely, it is a fact that Krishna will supply

everything else required. So you say that your men are like the four

Kumaras

disobeying Lord Brahma. Does it mean you are Brahma? But, it is a fact.

Here

in India we are now arranging for publishing Hindi books and other

languages

for profuse distribution in India. That is my immediate program. I

blindly

follow my guru maharaj. I do not know what is the result. So I am

stressing

on this point of book distribution. He told me this personally.

Book distribution is bhagavata marga and temple worship is pancaratriki

viddhi. Both are important for cultivating Vaisnavism but comparatively

speaking bhagavata marga is more important than pancaratriki viddhi. As

far

as possible both should go on in parallel lines but still bhagavata

marga is

more important than the other." (Letter to Sri Govinda 6 December 1974)

"I am always happy to hear of increasing book sales. These reports are

very

encouraging to me. Our real business is to print and distribute books.

By

doing this business, you are all becoming recognized by Krishna. Please

try

to continue working so nicely for Krishna, following the rules and

regulations, chanting 16 rounds, and studying my books and you will

finish

your business in this material world in this life and enter into the

spiritual world to live with Krishna eternally. Don't become

discouraged by

an so-called problems. Make your program simple, that is to say, always

make

sure that you are somehow or other engaged in Krishna's service, and

the

best service is preaching or engaging others in Krishna's service. So

continue in this way and be happy.

Your ever well-wisher,"

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/ps (Letter to Srutadeva 19 May 1974)

"Now all of you work cooperatively. I was very pleased to see how you

were

working so hard last year to distribute so many books. There is no

instance

of religious books of philosophy being distributed in such magnitude in

history. Now go on enthusiastically and increase this book distribution

unlimitedly."

I hope that this meets you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/pks (Letter to Radha-Damodara TSKP 5 May 1976)

Bombay

21 December, 1974

74-12-21

Los Angeles

My dear Ramesvara,

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram dated

Dec.

17, 1974 reading as follows; ``Great success, book sales for weekend of

Dec.

13 thru 15. Tripurari BBT Party 1346 big books, L.A. 1002 big books,

N.Y.

over 950 big books, Atlanta Airport over 650 big books, in one day.

Distribution definitely doubling in USA, Hare Krsna, Ramesvara'' This

kind

of wonderful news is very pleasing to my heart and I thank you all

again and

again. I think this is the first time in history that ever before so

many

religious books have sold so popularly. Four thousand books in one day

is a

very unique figure. Keep distributing as many as possible in huge

quantities. This is my pleasure. We must make a large propoganda

program for

Krsna Consciousness by distributing these books everywhere, all over

the

world. Just like the communists, they are very expert in distributing

their

literature, their propoganda. At the present moment they are

distributing

their literature here in India in nine different languages and it is

quite

effective. Therefore we must print hundreds and thousands of books and

distribute them at the same speed and thus we will have a great effect

on

the mass population of Europe and America. If we can get the masses in

the

Western countries like Europe and America to become Krsna Conscious,

then

all the rest of the world will follow. That is a fact. So please, I beg

you,

continue distributing my books in this way and Krsna will pour His

blessings

upon you all. Please keep me informed from time to time of the book

sales

statistics.

I hope this meets you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/ps

Letter to: Ramesvara

--

Geneva

5 June, 1974

74-06-05

Los Angeles

My dear Ramesvara,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of May

29th and

I have examined the contents.

You have written to recommend Tripurari for sannyasi. Tripurari is

however

already a brahmacari so in essence there is no difference between

brahmacari. I have asked Tripurari to dedicate his life to distributing

my

books and he has turned out the most expert of all our sellers. It is

certainly miraculous how he is distributing so many big books even to

people

who are not interested in Vedic literature. If he takes sannyasa he may

not

be able to constantly assume so many disguise in public and employ so

many

tricks for selling books to persons, as it is not in accord with some

of the

etiquette for sannyasa. Also, I have decided for the time being not to

award

sannyasa order. Your write the this recommendation is your own idea and

that

he himself is perfectly happy heading up a traveling party of book

distributers. So let him go on as he is doing; Krsna is giving him all

facility and without question he is doing more than any sannyasi by his

personally distributing hundreds of books day after day and inspiring

others

to follow.

Your ever well-wisher,

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/sdg

"You say that you are collecting sizeable funds from incense sale and

book

distribution, so I expect that you will also increase your payments to

my

book fund as much as possible. This will be very very pleasing to me,

as I

am most concerned that these books of mine be printed profusely and

distributed all over the world as each book has so much potency for

making

persons Krsna conscious. So as Chicago is one of the largest cities in

the

U.S., why not see if you can be the largest contributor to my book

fund,

although I think that you have got some stiff competition from Los

Angeles

branch. But if you can beat them, that will be very first class."

(Letter to

Sri Govinda 31 January 1973)

"I especially want that my books and literatures should be distributed

profusely, but so far I understand this is not being done very

perfectly. So

I want that you, all my students, shall very vigorously try for this

book

distribution. Do not hesitate to use your American and European brains

to

increase, that is Krishna's special gift to you, now use it. Any

activity

which will please Krishna should be accepted favorably, this is our

guiding

principle. Now apply it in this way, by doing everything and anything

for

spreading this Krishna Conscious literature, and this is really

pleasing to

Krishna, know it for certain." (Letter to Kirtiraja 27 November 1971)

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