ISKCON Halifax

At mid­day, we walked the path beside the river in New Glas­gow, over the bridge and to the main street. There is no dif­fer­ence between Prab­hu­pada and his books, and our mis­sion was to give Prabhupada’s asso­ci­a­tion to the town’s peo­ple. When, in late Jan­u­ary, we had come to cel­e­brate Lord Nityananda’s appear­ance, we had also tried to go out on book dis­tri­b­u­tion. The day we went out, snow was blow­ing in our faces. Some of us paced up and down the town’s main street, try­ing to stop peo­ple and give them a book. In an hour we had dis­trib­uted thirty-seven books to those who were brav­ing the cold with us. The expe­ri­ence was really extra­or­di­nary because we were not think­ing that so many books could be dis­trib­uted. New Glasgow’s pop­u­la­tion is con­sid­er­ably smaller than that of Hal­i­fax, and we dis­trib­uted more books that hour than we had in an entire day back in the city. New Glas­gow became a mem­o­rable place to distribute.