December Dissemination
Toronto, Ontario
On the day prior I had watched two brahmacaris (monks) and heard of more heading out with books in their arms off on a marathon mission. I was in Argentina, Buenos Aries, to be more specific, when I saw Prema, a young energetic monk, leaving to catch a bus for another part of the city to partake in a world-wide effort to give the world a higher consciousness through book distribution. They are not ordinary books but publications of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
I also watched at least two similar devotees return to their home temple in Toronto after I arrived back home. They came back with less weight under their arms having indulged happy takers to the same BBT books, this time in English whereas Spanish was the medium the day before. In two continents I saw the same enthusiastic energy being generated towards the aim of distributing these very special books.
December has been declared the month for promoting this literature of higher consciousness in Krishna Conscious circles. Our Guru, Srila Prabhupada, creator of the BBT, worded his intent on raising the world’s quality of life through book distribution. He wrote about the purpose of his society in the seven statements beginning with 1`) To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all peoples in the technique of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace in the world.
And statement 7) With a view towards achieving the aforementioned purposes, to publish and distribute periodicals, magazines books and other writings.
These mission statements, if you will, are the driving forces behind all the eagerness to disseminate this knowledge of transcendence .
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