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CONTENTS

Preface xix

PART ONE
BOOKS ARE THE BASIS 1

Introduction to Part One 3

1 / Book Distribution:
“Our Most Important Activity” 5

1.1 Three premises 5

1.2 Saṅkīrtana and book distribution 7
Congregational chanting: the spiritual process for this age 7
Saṅkīrtana includes chanting and preaching 11
Books as a means to propagate the yuga-dharma, saṅkīrtana 14

1.3 Bṛhad-mṛdaṅga 14
“Sales of literature, that is our great saṅkīrtana” 14
“For wider kīrtana, book distribution is better ” 15
Book distribution is “the immediate important business” 17
The necessity of going to the people 20
Book distribution cannot be stopped 22

1.4 The best preaching: let Śrīla Prabhupāda preach 24
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desire to preach 24
“We have to see how books are being distributed” 26
Earning Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mercy 27

1.5 Book distribution is the basis of all preaching 28
Realizations: Book distribution is the best preaching 29
Realizations: Books prepare the preaching field 32
Festivals: “Do you sell many books there?” 35
Books go everywhere 36