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By Tirtharaja Dasa My opinion on congregational preaching in ISKCON is that full-time devotees must facilitate the congregational devotees. The most important thing is to understand the needs, interests, and concerns of the people who are interested in Krsna consciousness. I think it is very important that devotees don’t presume to know what it is […]

Yaduraja Krsna Prabhu, Temple President of ISKCON TAIPING MALAYSIA, shares his experience in receiving the Bhakti-Vriksha Hands-On training course in Mayapur last November. This interactive course is presented regularly in Mayapur during the Gaura Purnima festival. It will be facilitated by Nityananda Ashraya Prabhu, Temple president of Bahadurgarh ISKCON Temple. For more information, please contact

Once, Lord Nrsimhadev’s worship was going on as usual when the pujari noticed that one flower fell from Nrsimhadev’s garland. The pujari asked the visitors if anyone was offering any special prayers to Lord Nrsimhadev. The visitors in front did not say anything, but from the back one lady came forward with tears in her

By Hanuman Dasa I think that the role of the congregation in distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books is very important. Most of the devotees in our movement are members of the congregation and many of them don’t live near the temple. Still, there is a role for them to play in the preaching mission. There are

My father and mother, living at Bakura district, Catna village, are initiated devotees of the Gaudiya Math. My name is Gauranga. I had joined the ISKCON Sri Mayapur temple six months ago, and after finishing the three months bhakta training course, I was put in the school preaching service. A few days ago just before

By Vijaya Dasa – ISKCON Book Distribution Ministry The congregation wants to be involved in the important aspects of ISKCON. One of the important programs is book distribution. There are many different things that we are doing now to encourage our congregation to be involved in book distribution. The Weekend Warriors program is for people

The Mayapur Experience – Part #1 in 4K Resolution. Video capture by Nrsingha dasa. Editing by Shyamsundar dasa. Up-loading by Pandava dasa. On behalf of ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry (CDM), we would like to express our deepest gratitude to you for helping us to assist in Srila Prabhupada’s preaching movement. For more information on the

Navina Nirada Prabhu, a successful book distributor and leadership trainer, shares a success story that emphasizes the importance of following up on those who are interested in Srila Prabhupada’s books. From inspiring someone to explore the realm of spirituality to facilitate a probable life-changing visit to Mayapur, India, there are many probabilities that someone can

By Sudharma Devi Dasi I thought that congregation referred to those who congregate in the temple. In a sense, we are all congregation, because we all congregate in the temple. When we think of congregational preaching, we mean going into people’s homes. This is actually very significant for our movement because if we trace back