By Laxmimoni dasi
If Srila Prabhupada visited you,
Maybe just for a day or two,
And came by unexpectedly,
I wonder what you’d do.
Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room,
To such an honored guest,
And all the food you’d offer,
Would be the very best.
And you would keep assuring him,
You’re glad to have him there,
That serving him within your home,
Is a joy beyond compare.
But if you saw him coming,
Would you meet him at the door,
With arms outstretched to welcome,
This honored visitor?
Or would you have to change your clothes,
Before you let him in?
Or hide some magazines,
And put the Gita where they’d been?
Would you watch those mundane movies,
Upon your TV set?
Would you have to answer e-mail,
While he was taking rest?
Would you run to turn your music off,
Before it reached his ears?
And put the tilak on your forehead,
Or bind or shave your hairs?
Would you cover up your Playstation,
Take your posters off the wall?
Would you have to hide the DVDs,
You just bought at the mall?
Would you gossip with your partner,
About devotees’ faults?
Would you have to re-cook dinner,
Without the garlic salt?
Would you put Tulasi on your neck,
And have to find your japa beads?
And wake up in the morning before the
Sun peeks through the trees.
Would you sing the songs you always sing,
And read the books you read?
And let him know the things on which
Your mind and spirit feed?
Would Prabhupada be invited,
Everywhere you planned to go?
Or, would you, maybe, change your plans,
Just for a day or so?
Would you be glad to have him meet,
Your very closest friends?
Or would you hope they’d stay away,
Until his visit ends?
I wonder if Prabhupada spent,
A day or two with you,
Would you go right on doing,
The things you always do?
Would you go right on saying
The things you always say?
Would life for you continue,
As it does from day to day?
Would you be glad to have him stay,
Forever on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief,
When finally he had gone?
I do distribute Prasadam since 15 years and books of Srila Prabhupada are always on the shelf to distribute. I do wish to distribute books more often. Something is blocking me to do so..
I also do wish to understand Srila Prabhupada’s books better and have more taste to read them. I have the feeling that as soon as I again distribute the books I also do read and pray more seriously and also my japa-meditation will become more intense.
What can I do to overcome this blockade?
your humble servant
Vanamali d.d.
There are commercially talented devotees who easily can sell books on the very first day they join, others have to grow into it gradually. It is sometimes not easy to become established as book distributor, but even having the desire to distribute Prabhupada’s books makes you liberated from samsara.
Prabhupada is 100% personal, when distributing books give people your calling card (phone, e-mail, blog). When going from door to door write down all mailing addresses of people who take a book.
Invite those people, visit them again, make them aware that you’re contact person. Like Prabhupada, make a diary, write down what happened. Write letters the way Prabhupada did.
Try to make a legal book table in a town center, get permission from the magistrate for a philosophical rally and have an identity card fixed at your sari when standing at your book table. Conditioned souls appreciate when things look authorized.
Make an index of all people who received Prabhupada’s books from you. Keep copies of that index at secure places.
When having lots of friends of Krishna try getting a farm, try for self-sufficiency, try to open a Govinda restaurant. Spiritual life means to expand, to develop projects and to engage in Krishna’s service everything what is already there.
Basically nothing has to be generated, everything is there already, we just have to preach, distribute books and engage people in Krishna’s service.
In 1965 when Prabhupada arrived in New York he had no money whatsoever, just Srimad-Bhagavatams. Normally, in a capitalistic general framework things only happen when there is cash injection.
We simply follow Prabhupada’s example by spreading the transcendental teachings of Lord Caitanya and beautiful spiritual projects develop.
Did you know that this cruel woman(Laxmimoni)
hurt many innocent girls under her care.
To find out more about her atrocities click below:
http://prabhupadavision.com/2011/11/laxmimoni/
Is this Laxmimoni an initiated disciple of A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada? She is now a gurukulla teacher in Florida?
One devotee sent me the following:
From: .net>
Subject: RE: do you know?
To: “Radha-Govinda Swami” .com>
Date: Monday, December 5, 2011, 1:58 AM
did you read the poem by LXMoni dasi posted on same website just yesterday? “An Invited Guest” is this the same LXMoni we know?
Hope all is well with you and your service.
Hare Krishna!
Love and respects,
X dasi
Maybe the person who submitted the poem or the webmaster can substantiate if this poem is from “the” Laxmimoni who Enver prabhu is thinking/referring to.
I remember having received this poem quite a long time ago, and it was not attributed to (that or another) Laxmimoni as being the writer. Knowing Laxmimoni (of infamous ISKCON repute), I highly doubt that she would be reading, what to speak of submitting something to Prabhupadanugas.Eu So maybe the person who submitted this or the webmaster can help out.
Your servant,
B. Radha-Govinda
Hare Krsna
The poet forgot a verse:
If Prabhupada came to your home
and saw a pervert on your altar;
Would he curl his lips and spit?
Do you think he would falter?