BBT Manager Ramesvara dasa 1979 Interview

What follows is a very important unpublished interview with Ramesvara Prabhu (Swami at that time) and BaladevVidyabusana Prabhu for the Lilamrita recorded sometime in 1979. This interview covers a period of years when Ramesvara was traveling with Srila Prabhupada and when he was working as the Manager of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. What we read now after all these years would have helped solve some of the burning questions that have plagued our society. Recently this interview was uncovered by accident ...Read More

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Original 1972 Edition Free PDF Download

We have just scanned Srila Prabhupada’s original Bhagavad-gita As It Is and the PDF file which includes all the original text, all the original color plates and the full Bhagavad Gita in PDF format ready for you to read on your computer, iPad or tablet is available for free download. To download Bhagavad-gita As It Is please click on the book cover image on the left. It is essential that we preserve the original books and teachings of Srila Prabhupada for the ...Read More

Original Sri Caitanya-caritamrta PDF Downloads

Please find the links below to all 17 Volumes of Srila Prabhupada’s original Sri Caitanya-caritamrta EXACTLY as it was published by Srila Prabhupada in 1974. Srila Prabhupada stressed so much to Radhavallabha Prabhu, the production manager at the BBT when Sri Caitanya-caritamrta was first printed, that once this book was printed they could not change anything. Of course Prabhupada did not want changes made to any of his books but he very strongly forbade the BBT from making any changes at ...Read More

Srimad-Bhagavatam Original Edition PDF Download

Once it was possible to find copies of original editions of Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad-Bhagavatams in second-hand book stores and on internet book websites but now the original editions of Srimad-Bhagavatam have become very difficult to find anywhere. So there is an urgent need to preserve these valuable books for future generations. We see the BBT making thousands of unauthorized changes to so many of Srila Prabhupada’s books in this way completely destroying the authority of the books. Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad-Bhagavatam has ...Read More

WANT TO GO ON THE WHOLE VANS WARPED TOUR FOR FREE?

Now that I got your attention, here’s the deal: For the last 10 years Prahlada-Nrsimha das has been going on The Vans Warped Tour distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books and it is wonderful! So many transcendental books are distributed to so many eager souls. The Vans Warped Tour is an amazing traveling punk rock music festival that rocks out for a two month period daily (June 16 – August 5) and hits the majority of the states in the USA. Okay get ready – ...Read More

Jesse Jackson Gets Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-Gita!

A few days ago I was at Occupy Wall Street in New York City distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books. All of a sudden a Black SUV with tinted out windows pulled up on the side of the road and a few men got out. One of them was a black man dressed in a nice suit. Within a few seconds the man dressed in the suit was surrounded by about 50 news people with television cameras and microphones all trying to get ...Read More

Tour the United States Distributing Prabhupada’s Books!

Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This is an open invitation to all devotees to have the most transcendentally wonderful time of your life by taking part in Prabhupada’s book distribution mission on traveling sankirtana. Our dearmost Srila Prabhupada worked so hard to produce his books and wanted his followers to distribute them. As he says in the Srimad Bhagavatam 3.21.31 “A person in Krsna consciousness, a devotee of the Lord, is always compassionate. He ...Read More

Reading Prabhupada’s Books is So Important

Srila Prabhupada’s main mission was the printing and distribution of his transcendental books. This was the order given to him by his spiritual master Srila Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur and Srila Prabhupada took this order, “If you get money print books,” as his life and soul. Srila Prabhupada would take rest at around 10:00 PM and rise at about midnight and in the early morning hours every day he would write his transcendental books. He worked so hard to write these books ...Read More

Amazon Kindle — A Revolution in Reading Prabhuapda’s Books

For many years I have been looking for the “perfect gadget” to read Srila Prabhupada’s books from. It’s clearly impractical to carry the sixty plus books everywhere we go and computer technology gives us the ability to store large amounts of information and easily carry it with us. While I have used the Prabhupada Folio Infobase on computers extensively for research into the teachings of Srila Prabhupada, I have never really read Prabhupada’s books from the computer. I suppose there are ...Read More

Real Intelligence Is Receiving Srila Prabhupada’s words!

I was at Yale University the other day but I could not break through at all there. Practically everyone seemed sooooo self-righteous and know it all and NOT interested at all! What is to be expected from politicians… So after getting hammered there until about noon, and only distributing a few books, I gave up and headed for greener pastures… I drove to a smaller school that was only a few minutes away. There ...Read More

Atheists and Christians Like Srila Prabhupada’s Books Too!

The other day I was at a tech school, one of the best and most expensive in the country (about $40,000 a year). It’s very difficult to get into that school, so naturally all the students there are quite together and smart. It was really nice to have the opportunity to give them a look at the  most valuable piece of education – Srila Prabhupada’s books. Everyone I met was very respectful towards me and what I was doing. Even the ...Read More

“And You, O [insert your name here], Can Be But An Instrument”

Today I was at a college and these three guys were walking and so I stopped them and handed them all a book. Immediately the middle guy got some crazy expression on his face and said “OH! THE BHAGAVAD-GITA! I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MY WHOLE LIFE! THIS IS AMAZING!” He started grabbing the shirts of the two guys next to him and said, “This is an amazing book, I’ve aways wanted a copy ...Read More

From Naradhama to Angel Instantly, This Is Srila Prabhupada’s Program

A few days ago we met a young man who at first told me that he’s totally not interested at all. But I tried my best to explain the book to him in hopes that something may inspire him somewhere deep in his heart to give Srila Prabhupada a chance and take a book. I started out by explaining to him that this book (Bhagavad-gita As It Is) is the most important thing to all humankind because it teaches us who we are beyond ...Read More

Persistance! — The Key to Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s Books

Recently I was distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books at the monuments in Washington DC and I stopped a group of people. One girl in the group asked me, “Have you been to ECU before?” I thought for a moment and then I remembered that ECU stands for Eastern Carolina University. She said she met me there in front of a residence hall and she and her friend got books from me. Then I remembered the whole thing and how we had ...Read More

Prabhupada’s Books — People Appreciate Them

May 25, 2010 — USA (SUN) — I was at a concert distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books and by his causeless mercy, I was doing very well. Towards the end of the show I was walking back to my van from a far corner of the parking lot, with my bag empty. I was feeling quite blissful from being an instrument for His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, and tried not to let it go to my head. All of a sudden ...Read More