Krishna certainly put me to the test today. This morning during my morning service in the kitchen I came up with this wild idea in my head and thought "I want to try some MORE book distribution but by myself." Being on harinam with book distribution was only training wheels for me. I felt I needed more of a challenge. So I got some advice from sankirtan devotees here in New Dwaraka then headed out this afternoon.
But before my service in the pujari room this afternoon, I went into the temple to pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna for mercy and blessings with this. After I had finished offering my prayer to Krishna one of His flowers fell off from Him. I took it as confirmation that Krsna was pleased and wanted me to go out today. So I went out at 1pm today.
I walked up and down Venice BLVD. As I did this I handed out yellow invitation cards to people as they walked by. The majority of the people took them and I must have handed out over 30-50 cards today. I tried to speak to a few people. Many were very friendly and some were inquisitive. I made my way all the way to Grandview BLVD. I noticed there was a mini flea bizarre there today so I decided to hang out there. I noticed that there was a store called Floyd's Barber shop next to the flea bizarre. And also they had a picture of the Beatles inside so I stood near by that store so that I could see George Harrison's picture in there to get even more inspiration.
I handed out more cards to people and tried to speak to them. Many were nice some not so favorable but were still polite Finally after about an half an hour one couple stopped to look at the books I had. They chose the Perfection of Yoga and made a donation of $1.00. Then there was a group of three young men who I stopped to talk to and show them the books. They couldn't make a donation but gladly took the invitation cards. Then I also saw someone with a Beatles t shirt and showed them a Chant and Be Happy book. He couldn't make a donation either but took a card.
I headed back to the temple around 3:15pm. I still handed out more cards on the way back. Im going to hopefully try this again tomorrow.
