Hare Krsna Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
ASA - Jaya!!
I am in Guadalajara, doing book distribution every day.
I am learning a lot. Yesterday we made a program of book distribution, we invite the devotees from the congregation, that we saw coming to the temple during the week, to go out 3h to distribute some books. It was the first time, and 4 devotees came, we hope the next sunday more devotees can come. We made a class about what is sankirtan, how to do sankirtan... the we went out from 12 to 3pm, then prasada, then feed back, pastimes... It was really nice to try to teach to other what we are learning. The were very enthusiastic, and they collected t help for the Ratha Yatra, only with few books they collected 500 pesos. It was easy, nice, and effective. We try to teach something, and we learn a lot from them.
One of them, is a young devotee that just met us on sankirtan this friday. But he was ready! He is like a devotee, and he went on sankirtan with us on the saturday harinam, yesterday, and also today. And because he has no engeagement he will come with us to Mexico DF for Radhastami!
Today we will go to a big university to try to make Krsna and Prabhupada famous there!!
Yesterday I had a very nice pastime: we went to an antique market on the street, and we were trying to distribute some books, but it was little hard because the people were mostly like wealthy people, to much false ego... they took only small books, and were not so mcuh appreciative (our experience in Guadalajara is that the people is very nice, so it was hard for my mind). So I sat a moment to read the Gita. I open (randomly) on the Universal form, v31, 32, 33. I was trying to take shelter from Krsna, I tryied to take enthusiasm from the words of Krsna and Prabhupada. They explained how Krsna has a plan, and we have to be intruments, how time is destroying everything, so people need the books, even if they cannot understand that death is coming t eat them, and I need to surrender to Krsna also! The next person I talk (on a car, semaphore) took the BG, the cience of self realization, and 2 small books without explaining anything, I felt an instrument, it was very nice to see that Krsna gave me a personal response to my anxiety...
My rounds and sadhana have to improve, they are fluctuating in quality... Today in Japa Joe (it is so nice to wake up for Japa joe) I felt I want to improve, it is not right to give only little endeavor to Krsna, who give us everything.
Hare Krsna Gurudeva, please forgive me for my offenses
Your servant, Nitya Kishori dd
HpS - ASA - Thank you very, very much... We can only hope that you get the inside essence of all that you are doing, so that you can keep on doing it forever, so that you become a permanent sailor on Srila Prabhupada's boat!!! Now we leave for the weekend in Virginia - Five schools in four days! We have NOIs packed in our Bag.