HARE KRSNA PRABHU!
JAY PRABHUPADA!
DANDAVAT PRANAM!
We recently had a Prabhupadanuga festival in Zagreb, Croatia which though small was very powerful. All participants went back to their respective places in Europe with lot of enthusiasm. 4 books in 4 diff languages were decided to be printed for Srila Prabhupada’s pleasure in next 6 months. We in Newyork also proposed book distribution training for some of the devotees from an affiliated Prabhupadanuga master book distributor traveling Sankirtan devotee in USA. A plan for buying land for farm community was proposed. A lot of the focus was on improvement of sadhana, chanting and reading. Hopefully 6 months later at the next festival when we take stock of development then the sadhana would have been improved.
We also discussed about Iskcon inc., Constitution ,Varna ashrama, Gurukuls and various means to raise donations.
http://prabhupadanugas.blogspot.in/2012/11/iskcon-inc-european-croatian-festival.html
Hare Krsna Prabhu
PAMHO.AGTSP.
This is ISKCON INC COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR
“ISKCON, Inc. was started by Srila Prabhupada himself. This is the original society that he registered when he 1st went to USA in 1966. Currently ISKCON Long Island temple in NY is owned by this society and many independent centers around the world are affiliated to this Society of Srila Prabhupada with Srila Prabhupada’s Direction of Management as the basis where each center is independent keeping the Acharya in the center. Formal affiliation has started, as seeing the potential of this Society made by Srila Prabhupada himself to act as a glue to bring all Prabhupadanugas together in the world, the ISKCON GBC has been for the 8 years taking all measures to attack this and trying to get it away from the Prabhupadanugas. We would put up all the concerned information on our website http://www.iskconinc.com/ and also travel to Prabhupadanugas in the world to bring all together. We want our right to practice KC with Srila Prabhupada as our direct authority and personal guidance with help from senior siksha Gurus like your self and to live in association with like minded devotees which helps Bhakti. As ISKCON GBC attacked us trying to remove us from temple and ISKCON, Inc. board, We had to defend as per Guidance from HDG Srila Prabhupada. It is only by HDG’s guidance and mercy that we have been able to defend till now and will win by His Divine Grace only. We hope to be servants of all devotees who are serving Srila Prabhupada, whichever country they are in or whatever group they are in, so that they can give us their association.
Till now we have affiliated about 60 centers around the world and many more soon.We want that you also become a part of ISKCON INC and help expand SRILA PRABHUPADA orginal society.
Prabhupadanuga devotees in BRAZIL, MEXICO, CANADA, GERMANY,FRANCE,TURKEY, CHINA, MALAYSIA, SERBIA, SIBERIA, USA,INDIA,UK, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, NEWZEALAND etc are mostly working alone, without much like minded association of senior devotees like your Holiness. Most of them we are in touch with and they feel that somehow if we can all work together and help each other, they would feel much more inspired in their services.
We have seen how Prabhupadanugas have so many differences of opinion of how to work together, most not even able to agree on the name of the new organization, and hence making their own and most start thinking our group is the best, which is anartha, we are all only existing by Srila Prabhupada’s grace equally bestowed on all of us like rain on ocean. We came to conclusion we may only be able to work worldwide under ISKCON name as that is Society made by Srila Prabhupada and then by Srila Prabhuapda’s grace we were given the opportunity to have this Society, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., the original Society of all ISKCON, that he first made when he arrived in NY in 1966, and for which he made Direction of Management and he made it as the beneficiary of BBT. Hearing of this society, we have seen most Prabhupadanugas are attracted to working together as independent affiliates of this Society and maybe in the future make worldwide GBC elected regionally as per DOM. Have you gone through the Direction of Management?
We very much hope we can meet in the future, and probably also invite other Prabhupadanugas whom we are in touch with and who want to work together, for a festival where this can also be discussed. May Your blessings be upon us, as we consider you one of our very senior Godbrothers and whose association we aspire for.”
We very much hope we can meet in the future, and probably also invite other Prabhupadanugas whom we are in touch with and who want to work together, for a festival where this can also be discussed. May Your blessings be upon us, as we consider you one of our very senior Godbrothers and whose association we aspire for.”
Our long island temple link is
http://www.iskconny.com/index.html
http://prabhupadanugas.blogspot.in/2012/06/prabhupadanugas-participate-in-memorial.html
http://prabhupadanugas.blogspot.in/2012/07/prabhupadanugas-new-york-long-island.html
We also have a very big center in Jaipur,India.we have around 500youth students with us chanting 16 rounds everyday and 20 brahmacaris
http://prabhupadanugas.blogspot.in/2012/03/prabhupadanugas-jaipur-doing-harinam.html —in this link u can see our students doing hari naam sankirtan in Jaipur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9QPGqm4n68&featur..
our colllege preaching in jaipur video
Hopefully we can work together and hoping to get a positive response from you
your servant
gaurangasundar dasa
(iskcon inc communication director)
Thank you Gaurangasundar prabhu for the uploading and writing and Praghosa prabhu for posting it on Prabhupadanugas.eu
In spite of this terrible enemy of personal ambition somehow we are making steps forward.
Thank you.
Gaurangasundar Dasa says: “ISKCON, Inc. was started by Srila Prabhupada himself. This is the original society that he registered when he 1st went to USA in 1966. Currently ISKCON Long Island temple in NY is owned by this society and many independent centers around the world are affiliated to this Society of Srila Prabhupada…
Srila Prabhupada went to the USA in 1965, not 1966, and the original corporation that he started in New York City in 1966 was “International Society for Krishna Consciousness,” not “ISKCON.” Why say that it was “ISKCON, Inc?” I don’t get it.
When I was temple treasurer at ISKCON Boston in 1975-76 I questioned why the temple was incorporated as “ISKCON of New England” and not “International Society for Krishna Consciousness.” I thought that it was maya (illusion). The newly installed temple president didn’t have an answer, but didn’t seem to care one iota. Later on I discovered that I was wrong. The devotees who incorporated ISKCON Boston were simply following Srila Prabhupada’s emphatic and repeated instruction that all of his temples be independent!
Srila Prabhupada didn’t want legal centralization. He wanted each temple to be legally independent. That means that each temple must be separately incorporated, just as was being done when Srila Prabhupada was personally running ISKCON. That means that each and every corporation, within one particular country at least, must have a different name! It’s more difficult and expensive to do it that way, but that’s what Srila Prabhupada ordered, so that’s what most temples did, especially after Srila Prabhupada temporarily dissolved the GBC in 1972 after their rebellious centralization attempt.
As far as I know, Srila Prabhupada never expressed this as a reason for his “every temple must be independent” policy, but this policy has turned out to have the added benefit of making it much more difficult/complicated to sue all of ISKCON for the transgressions of one particular temple.