By Vijaya Das
This unprecedented time of lockdown should be seen as an opportunity find other ways to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books. "Don’t let a good crisis go to waste." We know about Bhagavatam and Caitanya-caritamrta set sales, and we have been distributing sets for decades, but mostly to our congregation. Many set sales before the Coronavirus were done by Devamrta Swami’s disciples, the harinama devotees in New York City, and Vaisesika Prabhu's team in Silicon Valley. But now Krishna has put us all in a situation in which online is the only way to distribute. Krishna made this arrangement so that we can get really focused on this type of book distribution. There are different ways to do it. If you have phone numbers, you can call, or you can distribute through social media and e-mails. I'm sure that devotees will figure out similar ways to distribute books. Srila Prabhupada said we should tax our brains how to distribute his books. This is the time to do it, when the way that most of us were distributing has been taken away.