DTC (Fr/21)
AgtSP and an excellent Radhastami manifest in your face! (((paoho)))... Of course t.brown, your journalist of renown and the village clown makes this sound.
So many of you we think of now, only Krsna can say how....
In Houston?
So are we.
Sugar Land.
Hari-lila and Mother Madhavi's home. She's sending 108 sarees for the ladies in Peru and Chile... too... (or maybe 2?).... Sankirtana... Jayananda Das manifest leukemia. It was manifest in big blue streaks on his arms. He could no longer walk. He was getting ready to leave before Srila Prabhupada... Too much... He couldn't stay to see that pastime...
... but he was in the Temple in New York and nothing, leukemia, nothing, could stop his super-active spiritual service propensity.
... so, when he saw that there was no one to manage the botique, gift store, well he volunteered. It was up on the second or third floor and the entrance to the temple and the restaurant were down below. Who would go up there.
... but he started to make up a display board that sat in the temple entrance lobby and had an arrow and invitation to go up, "Free Burfi, Gift Store and Botique This Way >>>". Then people started coming. He put balloons on his invitation sign sometimes. Had people passing out invitaion cards in the restaurant. Had different sales and events. It became the place to visit. He started selling stuff left, right, up and down. People brought devotional things to sell o consignment whenever they came from the farm to the town.
... He talked and he counseled and
did all things well and showed that there's no
service that is small if done well..!
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... when I was a new bhakta, visiting the temple in San Francisco, I wanted a pair of Kartals from the Temple and he opened the little gift store and showed me a pair. I said, "How much?", and he said, "I don't know, just give some donation, whatever you think you can afford", and I gave a good donation, whatever I had. He had faith that people a basically generous. You just have to give them a chance to express it!