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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
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