Our Family Business - Hardcover

Vaisesika Dasa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9171499008 ISBN 13: 9789171499004

Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2016

Synopsis

What if you could build your devotee community, deepen your Krishna consciousness, give others the opportunity to learn about bhakti, and perform the dharma of the age all at the same time? In this very readable book, Vaisesika Dasa discusses both why we should join the family business of distributing transcendental knowledge through the written word as well as how book distribution benefits distributors, the devotional community, and all those who receive one of Srila Prabhupada's books. Learn about: The history of book distribution in ISKCON. How book distribution is literary kirtan, and perfectly links one to the yuga-dharma. How performing book distribution is high sadhana, and instills a taste for hearing and chanting. The Four Laws of Book Distribution - proven principles guaranteed to improve, and increase your book distribution. Fun and practical ways to involve your whole community in sankirtana. Our Family Business makes it clear that every devotee, and every service is part of the sankirtana effort. Even if book distribution isn't your primary service, expect to be enlightened, encouraged, and enlivened by reading this book.

About this title

About the Author:

Vaisesika Dasa was born in 1956. As a teen, he was an avid spiritual seeker. In the spring of 1973 at the age of sixteen he received a Back to Godhead magazine from a friend, and within a few days moved into the ISKCON temple in San Francisco. With the blessing of his parents, he became a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, and a full-time monk dedicated to the practice of Krishna bhakti. Today he lives in the San Franciso Bay Area with his wife Nirakula Devi Dasi, also a disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Together they have developed an ISKCON community of three hundred families in Silicon Valley based on the study, and distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books. He is an initiating guru in ISKCON. He travels widely to teach the tenets of devotional service, and the great art of distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.

Review:

Our Family Business takes one through the Hare Krishna explosion in book distribution in a most compelling and thrilling manner from one who was a key player in it. This book also takes one into the modern day in which not only temple devotees, but devotees in the congregation can participate in the family business of distributing transcendental literature. This book reveals how His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ISKCON's founder acarya, led and inspired the devotees to distribute ancient spiritual classics of India to a western audience seeking a higher purpose in life. From the very first pages of this book, you will not want to put it down. It's surely a must-have. --Jayapataka Swami

Our Family Business takes us on a personal journey into Srila Prabhupada's timeless legacy of love, wherein we can all have an intimate role. With every page I read, I can feel the contagious spirit of gratitude, and compassion that springs from the heart of Vaisesika Dasa --Radhanath Swami

About this edition

• Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9171499008
• ISBN 13: 9789171499004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544