Tonight's Harinam was great. At first our group was quite small only about ten of us. A few more devotees showed up about a half an hour later so there was at least 15-20 of us. We spent two hours chanting Krishna's Holy Names and dancing. I tried a little dancing. I was dancing a slow pace but my back started hurting me after awhile so I had to stop dancing. I tolerated the pain though after I stopped dancing and just continued to chant Krishna's Holy Names.
As we chanted and danced a group of young kids came in and danced with us and they seemed to have enjoyed it. A few other people did as well. I love to observe how people react to us especially the people who have never even heard of us before.
Toward the end of the harinam around 7:30pm I took up an attempt at book distribution again. I tried to distribute Self Realization and Bhagavad Gita. I didn't have any luck tonight unfortunately but I wanted to at least try to please Srila Prabhupada a bit more. I hope he was at least pleased that I tried to distribute his books. However I was afraid of committing an offense about preaching about Krishna to others who don't believe. I trying to be very careful of that. But the people that I have spoken with tonight were inquisitive so I guess it was not an offense for me to answer their questions about Krishna. They were polite with me too and didn't argue. Even this one elderly gentleman who said he believes the scientists theory about life, he was still nice. I told him it's okay and that he can believe what he wants to believe and I wished him a good night and he said the same with me. This one other gentleman who looked like he was slightly older than me asked me a few questions and I answered him the best I could. He thanked me as well for telling him the information. Then I spoke to this one girl who was my age. She was listening to me but was quiet. She thanked me for explaining who our group of chanters were. The people that I had spoken with tonight I gave them all cards that advertise our temple. At least I distributed those yellow cards and it has Krishna's Holy Names on them.
So I hope I pleased Srila Prabhupada and Krishna tonight. I am still trying to get off this same spiritual platform I am on and I do want to advance more. I even chanted more rounds today I had chanted 24 rounds and I hope they were quality rounds to Krishna.
