The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution Quotes

“Several years ago, upon completing a major part of this treatise, I decided that I had better shelve the thing, despite my deep conviction about the need for this dimension of open and frank dissertation in contemporary Vaishnava society. I was thinking that perhaps the best place for it would be in a grantha­samadhi. After all, Srila Prabhupada had requested me to write a book. He didn't say anything about taking it to the press. I thought it better to safeguard the peaceful prosecution of my bhajana by avoiding the likelihood of provoking certain anticipated institutional and interpersonal hostilities toward myself.”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“Who cares whether or not I said that he said that she said that they said that ... who the hell knows what anyone actually said anyway? Human life is much too short for any of this.”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“What a folly if, while incessantly promulgating hundreds of thousands upon billions, trillions, or even innumerable quadrillions of small, medium, big, and maha big books to boot for billions of lifetimes, one does not bother to advance one's internal devotional eligibility (adhikara) in Krishna consciousness to triumphantly deserve entry into Your bhauma-lilas for the real attainment of one's sac-cid-ananda­siddha-deha as a vraja-gopa or gopi!”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“Who cares whether or not any stool-passing creature of this world would be bothered to seriously understand or appreciate our heartfelt feelings about anything? Did we come to this world to win a popularity contest?”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“Who cares who puts whose stick in whose hole? Ultimately, we must all fly our own airplane. Why waste our invaluable time on the absurdities of the materially engrossed?”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“Who the hell cares who becomes the next Ravana of institutional mismanagement? God will have to sort that out. The only perfect management is in Vaikuntha anyway.”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“My dear Lordships! What is the use of constructing hundreds and thousands of pompously opulent temples, worshiping thousands and millions of grandiosely ornamented Deities, distributing umteenzillions of books, (mis)managing millions and billions of bucks, filling billions and trillions of bellies, and congregating a society of hundreds of thousands of semi-conscious squabbling neophytes, if even one soul amidst the menagerie could not ultimately achieve the supremely privileged maid-service of the treasures of Your lotus feet as You endlessly enjoy Your transcendental nikunja-lilas in Your eternally resplendent realm of Vraja-dhama?”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“What is the use of it all, if we don't recognize that the purpose of our book distribution is to encourage as many others as possible to become pure-hearted, fully self-realized niskincana bhajananandis who are the fittest to propagate the Holy Name by their ecstatic performances of prema-nama­sankirtana which forever stands as the only true jaiva-dharma of every jiva soul without exception? What would be the use of it all, if we could not become factually freed from the insanity of not clearly knowing who we really are in terms of the intricacies of our ultimate, intrinsic, eternal spiritual identity (vraja-svarupa)?”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“What would be the use of distributing millions upon billions upon trillions of sublime rasa-saturated scriptures if, as a result of all the hustle and bustle, not even one soul attains the fruit of vraja-prema, vastu-siddhi, the ultimate perfection of gaining Krishna's direct shelter in the bhauma-lilas as a follower of the damsels of Vrindavana, beyond the hope against hope suppositional domain of wishful thinking?”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“I only regret that, in a devotional society meant to instill fearlessness and individual thoughtfulness in its members, the atmospheric conditions are such that devotees opt to remain anonymous so as to circumvent the risk of being barbarously burned at the stake by the institutional powers­that-be for exercising their God-given right to freedom of pure devotional expression. Anyway, Krishna knows who they are, and I pray for His unreserved blessings upon them.”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”
― Aindra Das, The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution