Book distribution report by Anita dasi
Its amazing what we take for granted. For example delivery of a couch . . .
or some beds . . .
Here in the Shimla area everything is built on steep hills. Hills so steep I could would be daunted to walk up them, much less build a city. But the mountain people here literally carved out a way of life in the mountains.
Today instead of going to the crowded mall we meet our hostess for her lunch break. She works as a nurse in a community dispensary in a village called Sanjoli.
She took us up this steep road to a temple called Jakhu mandir. It is where Hanuman rested while going to get the herbs from the Himalayas for Laxman. We distributed books here for about half an hour. There were not so many people there and our hostess needed to get back to work.
We distributed books in Sanjoli while she worked in the afternoon. There weren’t the crowds we had become used to, but we certainly peaked people’s interest. I had groups of students, ladies sitting on benches, and people in chai stalls calling me over to see the books. Despite it being a village we still managed to distribute many books. Now we are beginning to worry we will run out of books.
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