Dandvat Pranam. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thank you for this wonderful news! Sudeep Prabhu had called me and conveyed the wonderful teamwork with which Team Sacramento planned and executed this nice Sankirtana at odd hours.
Total Bhagavad Gitas Books Distributed (Or to be dispatched ) : 405 Books.
| CA | 20 | Ranch Motel / Mr. Bharatbhai |
| CA | 25 | Surf Motel / Mr. Bharatbhai |
| CA | 25 | Deville / Aruna Patel |
| CA | 20 | Gateway Inn / Manubhai |
| CA | 80 | America's Best Value Inn/Kalaben and Pravin Patel |
| CA | 20 | Westwood Motel / Amrutbhai Patel |
| CA | 50 | Comfort Inn / Raj Maria |
| NV | 26 | Horseshoe Motel / Chaturbhai Patel |
| NV | 45 | Coach Inn / Sejal Patel |
| NV | 32 | Hwy 40 / Kiritbhai Patel |
| NV | 22 | Easy 8 / Pannaben Patel |
| NV | 40 | Fireside / Mukeshbhai Patel |
T O T A L 405
On behalf of Team MotelGita and ISV Sankirtana , we would like to thank :
Asit prabhu : For tactfully presenting the philosophy and convincing the Moteliers in Gujarati. According to Sudeep prabhu, you were amazing !
Radha Venkat prabhu : Thank you being the backbone of this. You provided the books and cards. Sudeep Prabhu was so appreciative of the fact that even though you had landed from Asia just hours ago and were in Jet Lag, you continued the Sankirtana! Thank you.
Pranaya Prabhu : What a way to celebrate your
birthday! Thank you prabhuji for helping Team MotelGita to distribute books to so many Motels.
Sudeep Prabhu : Thank you prabhu for initiating the book distribution at the Garba Night program the previous night and arranging one more book distribution program next weekend!!! Jay! Your help is truly appreciated.
Can one of you also send a report to our book groups please ?
Further, Please advice how would you like to execute the Orders ? Would you like us to send books to someone's home in Sacramento so that you can hand deliver it or send it directly or maybe a combination of both ? Would you like more books for the program next Saturday as well ? Please reply asap .
TulasiLata Mataji : Kindly add all the devotees in this email chain in the MotelGita email group. Please also send Sudeep Prabhu our excel sheet so that he can fill it up and give it you for dispatch / record purposes.
Your servant,
Mayapur Vihari Das
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From:
Sudeep Sabnis <ssabnis@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Motel Gita BG distribution at Garba night in West Sac on 10/20/12
To:
motelgitaisv@yahoogroups.com Cc: Asit Dani <
adani99@yahoo.com>, Radhav <
radhav@yahoo.com>, Milan Doshi <
milan.doshi@gmail.com>
Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis:
Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am attaching the excel sheet for the book distribution for Motel Gita project at a couple of Garba events in Sacramento. The first one was in West Sacramento on 10/20/12 and the second one was on 10/27/12. We received quite a good response on the first one where we were able to meet and interact with quite a few motel owners. We were able to hand cases of BGs to some motel owners on that day itself (see the report in the email below). The second one was a more popular Garba night event where we could not meet many people but by Lord Caitanya's mercy we still were able to distribute cards and take down information from some people who seemed interested. One gentleman by the name Chaturbhai Patel handed information on a few motels in Reno, NV. Asit Prabhu then followed up by making calls to the contacts we took down and spoke in his native Gujarati language. People such as Chaturbhai Patel provided the addresses of motel owners in Reno whereas we're still waiting on some others to get back to us. All the information has been recorded in the attached spreadsheet for the confirmed ones.
Please note that I have highlighted the ones yet to be delivered. Once we receive more info / feedback, we will send out another report.
We will send out more information as and when we receive it.
Param Vijayate Sri Krishna Sankirtanam!
Humbly in service,
Team Sacramento
(Asit Pr, Radhakrishnan Pr, Dharmesh Pr, Pranay Pr, Sudeep Pr)
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Sudeep Sabnis
<ssabnis@gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Sudeep Sabnis <ssabnis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Subject: Book distribution at Garba night in West Sacramento on 10/20/12... GNAB
To: book distribution <iskconsv_books@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Milan Doshi <milan.doshi@gmail.com>, Radhav <radhav@yahoo.com>, Asit Dani <adani99@yahoo.com>, Pranaya Tandon <pranayatandon@yahoo.com>
Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We had a successful Motel Gita presentation last weekend (Saturday, 10/20/12) at a Garba/Dandiya event in West Sacramento. We were able to meet with quite a few motel owners and by Lord Gauranga's mercy, were able to convince them in placing Bhagavad Gita in their motel rooms. Here are the details followed by my G.N.A.B
Devotees participated: Radhakrishnan, Asit Dani, Pranay Tandon, Sudeep Sabnis
Bhagavad Gita (BG) dispatched: 70 (placed in Motel Owner's cars)
Bhagavad Gita (BG) to be delivered: 170
Total BG: 240
Number of Motels: 7 (Comfort Inn, Gateway Inn, America's Best Value Inn, etc)
(We had to give away some 7-10 BGs to the public because of an announcement from the organizers, those are not included in the above count)
G.N.A.B.:People were receptive:
We reached there a little after 8p (the event was from 8p-midnight) and got our table setup behind the reception desk. Asit Prabhu had brought along some Bhagavad Gita and Krsna books in Gujarati (a regional language spoken by people from the state of Gujarat), which helped greatly. We found people to be very appreciative. Matajis were stopping by our table with a smile on their faces as if they were acknowledging the transcendental work we were doing. That helped us carry out our task with minimal effort.
Interaction with Motel owners:
We had decided among ourselves that we would let Asit Prabhu do most of the talking in Gujarati while our task would be to get people to swing by our table. One of the common concerns motel owners had was "Will I incur sin if the Bhagavad Gita is not handled properly"....which resulted from their experience of seeing how the Bible was being defiled in their motel rooms. Our response was "No, you will not....we will restock the books if that happens, and are willing to take the risk. We would like the message of Lord Krishna to be reached out to everyone". We then showed them the verse from BG 18.68 and 18.69 and that was it, we didn't have to convince anymore. While distributing flyers and Motel Gita cards we were getting responses like "I don't own any motels". Our response was "Okay, you still maybe knowing someone who does. Nope, okay, then you may meet someone who does" and they were happily accepting the cards.
The Team:
It was great to see Asit Prabhu make that 1-1 connection with the motel owners by speaking in his native language (Gujarati). I have always admired his simplicity and it is one of his many Vaishnava qualities which enabled him to bond with the people he talked. Radhakrishnan Prabhu was a happy man delivering cases of Bhagavad Gita by walking down with the Motel owners to their cars. He didn't appear to be jet-lagged even though he had gotten back just a day from Japan (and guess who he ran into there?) Pranay Tandon Prabhu was the birthday boy and what a way to celebrate it by being out there on Sankirtan. He is a jolly person to be around.
It was a great experience, the effect of which lasted for a couple more days simply when I kept thinking about it. That's the beauty of transcendental service (pratyakshavagamam dharmyam su-sukham kartum avyayam)...... that one simply relishes more as one gets engaged more and more into it. Thank you to Motel Gita Team for engaging us in this service. All glories to you. All glories to the devotees who sponsored the cases for book distribution. Jaya!
Your servant,
Sudeep Sabnis
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Thanks,
Milan Doshi
www.motelgita.org
Please help us place Bhagavad Gita in all motels.
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Thanks and regards,
Mayapur Vihari Das
510-962-2203www.motelgita.org Solace for the Traveling Soul!Help us place Bhagavad Gita in all motels.
