Date: 6/10/22
Dear Sriman Gaura dasa,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
On Oct 25, 2018, after learning you had a practice of going out for book distribution during the winter holidays season, I sent you an email containing some quotations regarding the glories of book distribution, book distributors and our gurus’ high appreciation for both. Among them was this one from Srila Sridhara Maharaja.
Srila Sridhara Maharaja: By canvassers in Navadwīpa, then Calcutta, so many subscribers. When the preaching party moved from different parts of the country they also collected subscribers, in this way. And also in the Calcutta market, in the Navadwīpa area station, big stations also, they’re like hawker, the brāhmacārīns came to spread like hawkers. Red clad brāhmacārīns, they’re hawkers, “Nadīyā Prakāśa, eka paisa, Nadīyā Prakāśa, take, one paisa,” distributed.
And so many persons used to come to ridicule those boys.
“You have no parents to take care of you? You are let loose for this unnecessary activity? What are you doing? You are devouring, swallowing your own future, you boys go, go home. With red clad come to canvas newspaper, what is Nadīyā Prakāśa? You are faced with such adverse position and pushing Nadīyā Prakāśa.”… Read More...