Comments on: It’s Easy to Distribute Books When You Look Like John Stamos!

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:23:51 +0000

I didn’t just distribute books to get high. I really wanted to know how the devotees did it. Distributing books seemed like incredible mystic power, and I wanted to be a part of it. I was always inquisitive. In the beginning I couldn’t sell even one book. I tried everything, even getting down on my knees and begging. I honestly couldn’t sell even one. I could sell BTGs for nickles, dimes and quarters, but to get $5 to me was a miracle, back in 1972. It still amazes me to read the book scorces, and see that even today, even in the midst of so much controversy and failure, devotees still go out and distribute thousands of books. It is truly amazing. I give out books anonymously now. I buy 20 small books every time I go to the temple, and pass them out for free around where I live. I don’t care if I get high, its ok. The sun comes up every day, and there is plenty of good food to eat and air to breath, so I don’t need to get high distributing books anymore. I have been given plenty. It would truly be very selfish of me to ask for or demand any more.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:33:21 +0000

No, I think not. Just like Garuda is a devotee who eats snakes, ALF is a devotee who eats cats. I don’t see a conflict.

But maybe Primal Strips could come up with fake cat jerky!

By: lgh

lgh — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:43:04 +0000

Wait! I do believe these comments are becoming too far removed from the article’s essence – the sankirtan benefits of sitcom-likeness. I am mostly interested in which Nick at Nite characters NOT to look like. I see that Perfect Stranger’s Balki is helpfully not recommended but what others are to be avoided like Ratha Yatra lemonade? I noticed this morning that I bore a striking resemblance to ALF the lovable space alien. Like John Stamos ALF is a seriously handsome figure and would, without a doubt, inspire many spirit souls BUT is his desire for foodstuffs in the form of the family cat too much at odds with Srila Prabhupada’s movement?

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:31:40 +0000

Ok so I was ranting. I just noticed that rants weren’t be deleted so I took advantage of the situation.

By: Devak

Devak — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:14:06 +0000

Yes, Kenny……I don’t think these articles are REAL. People just write them so that we can laugh at ourselves. You didn’t know that? [BTW, I can't prove it. Maybe one article was real...Eric said, one was real. But which one?]

Nothing is real. All is illusion except the bills that come in the mail.

The other thing that is real is death. But, not to worry, I am working on a method to avoid it. I’ll be posting on this real soon. There are just a few more bugs to work out and we can all relax.

Love,
Devak……………

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:17:53 +0000

Wait… you mean this article wasn’t REAL?!

By: Devak

Devak — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:14:47 +0000

INDIA
Kerala State
Aug 8.08

Dear Boy R D:

How are you today? Haribol!

‘Janastotram dasa brahmacari’ wrote the article above the comments. Are you referring to him in your comments ?

I was just wondering because the article is only satire and not meant to offend anyone.

As for myself I am a devotee and so was my mother. My grandfather was a spritual teacher back in the day.

The name I reference above may just be a name he uses for this site. You also use a name different from your spiritual name.

Devak………….is my real spiritual name. And like all other Western devotees I have a mundane name.

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:02:30 +0000

The only reason I am saying this is are you sure you have the devotees all figured out? You make an article like this, as well as others at this site, I sense, because maybe you read some of ISKCON’s literature, or you went to the Sunday feast, and so you think you can tear down the devotees because their fakes in your minds and you have their number. What I am saying is I practice Krishna Consciousness because I am desparate. I am suffering and looking for answers. I can’t manufacture happiness no matter how hard I try, and I have tried as hard as I can. I am dependent on a Supreme Sanctioning Authority for everything I need. I happen to call Him Krishna, but other names are good too.

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:46:37 +0000

I distributed books not because I had some blind belief in Krishna Consciousness, or because I thought I was saving the world. I did it purely for selfish reasons – it got me stoned.

I have done a lot of self analysis about this. I took drugs in high school back in the sixties because I was nuts then, as I am now, and I was self-medicating. My dad was nuts, but he couldn’t tell his sons that they might be nuts too, because he was propably afraid of losing his job or being publically ostrosized, so he kept completely quiet about it, until just a couple of years ago.

For me I have had to suffer mental anguish for decades, every day. I have always been looking for something that might make me feel better. I really hated getting stoned in high school, but it freed me from my mind, and I felt more at peace, even though in actuality my life was falling apart more and more.

I ran into Krishna Consciousness. It gave me a natural high, and freed me from drugs.

I distributed books because I got high when I did it. I tested it out many times, just to see if it was my imagination. I felt an electrical charge of joy everytime a book left my hand, so I sold books all the time, as much as possible, purely for the high.

One day I couldn’t get high anymore doing it, so I quit. I tried again and again but the high wasn’t there anymore.

I tried to distribute again a couple of years back, but no go, so I gave up. I couldn’t really ever sell books again, so I bought a case and gave them away for free. But no high and no feeling, so I gave up.

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:35:06 +0000

I will check out Gaudiya-repercussions. Looks like they have lots of good discussions going on over there. I will keep the same name too, and accept the heat for the dumb things I said, instead of hiding behind a new identity.