20241210 Matchless Gift Bookstore Inaugural Speech

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram
hariḥ oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: As instructed by Śrīla Prabhupāda, I used to go out and distribute books and I have been all over West Bengal – Howrah, Malda, most of the districts in West Bengal. I went when Śrīla Prabhupāda was personally present here. Śrīla Prabhupāda told me to distribute hundred thousand small books and ten thousand big books every month. Like earlier, now I cannot go every Sunday and distribute books, but I am distributing books from the Lotus rooftop. Śrīla Prabhupāda would be very pleased when his books are distribute and also, people read them! So whatever you can and however you can try to distribute books. The Māyāpur Institute is giving facilities for devotees to do different śāstric courses, so that we can read Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books. So, there are many devotees present in Māyāpur, so whatever we can, we should distribute as many books as we can.