Page 35 - Patropadesa (English)

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Srila Prabhupada stressed so much the importance of book
distribution. Therefore, in parampara, his disciples and grand-
disciples can easily get the mercy if they also stress on this
secret of preaching success: distribute books, distribute books,
distribute books.

You are personally experiencing the bliss of book distribution.
Krsna is reciprocating and giving you the intelligence how to
expand, by recruiting other book distributors, distributing books
as prizes, to clubs, to shops etc.

Now, if you want to be a perfect disciple, try to do something to
satisfy the parampara. You have made a group. Sit down together
and seriously discuss how to increase your book distribution. You
have intelligence, youthful energy, prestige and many material
advantages. If you engage all these assets to distribute Srila
Prabhupada’s books, that will be the perfection of your life.

Think big. Whatever book distribution you are doing now, aim
to increase many times over. Go back to people who have shown
interest, give them a little prasad, speak to them nicely, and
induce them gradually to take more and more books.

Set yourselves quotas. “This month we have to do one thousand
books.” Fulfill your quota come what may; increase every
month. Don’t just order a few books at a time. You should start
distributing thousands of rupees worth of books every month.
You are not limited to H and D but can expand your field of
activities.

Book distribution is unlimited. When devotees first started
distributing big books in America, they thought it would be
impossible. But some devotees started doing 1 or 2 a day. After
a few years some devotees were doing over 100 big books every
day! Even now some German and Swiss devotees sell several
hundred, sometimes a thousand books a day, on the streets, in
the Christmas season.