All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
There was arranged the Rathyatra festival on 25 June'17 Sunday, on the auspicious day of Ashadh dwitiya in the city of Surat, Gujarat. Since Surat is one of the major cities of Gujarat, many thousand faithful people took part in it with a great enthusiasm. It was one of the best chance for the devotees to please Srila Prabhupada by distributing his books as Rathyatra is a festival in which totally new beginners who even don't know the lord, some faithful people, few who do not believe in lord and even the people of different religions and sampradayas take part. As Srila Prabhupada once said in his lecture that " There is no question of darkness where there is light, and Krishna Consciousness is the light that dispels the darkness of material sense enjoyment."( Lecture, Ratha-yatra-San Francisco, June 27, 1971 ) and to bring the light of Krsna Consciouness to the conditioned people, under the guidance of the vice president of Surat ISKCON temple H.G. Vrindavan Das, team of around 150 devotees leaded by H.G. Radhesh Das celebrated this festival of Chariot by sacrificing their time totally to book distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and in order to bring the Mercy of Lord Jagannatha to every people.
The following is the book distribution report:
Maha Big books - 491
Big books - 75
Medium books - 25
Small books - 991
Srimad Bhagwatam full set - 13
Caitanya Caritamrita set - 1
Sri BhaktiSiddhanta Vaibhav - 1 Set
Lose BTG - 860
BTG 1 year subscription - 33 Plus
some more books which are not counted
Total 2.07 L INR Lakshmi received.
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