HG Rasamandala Prabhu, Director of ISKCON Educational Services, facilitated a four day Devotee Care Course-2, pilot course at ISKCON Govardhan Eco Village (GEV), Wada from 27th to 30th Oct 2016. It was organized by Revatiraman Prabhu, Chairman of the Devotee Care Committee and Gauranga Prabhu, Divisional Director for Devotee Care Committee. Rasamandala Prabhu was given the responsibility of creating a world class Course on Devotee Care in the VTE style and was given all the resources created by the Devotee Care Committee over 6 years. The efforts have been kindly sponsored by ISKCON Bhaktivedanta Manor, ISKCON Tirupati, ISKCON Chowpatty and HG Gopal Bhatta Prabhu, the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Team. The members of the Devotee Care Committee who were involved in creating the resources over several years of efforts are HH Bhakti Purushottama Swami, HH Bir Krishna Goswami, HH Jayapataka Swami, HH Kavicandra Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HG Asesa Sandhini Devi Dasi, HG Chandrasekhara Dasa, HG Ekavira Dasa, HG Gauranga Dasa, HG Hare Krishna Dasa, HG Kisori Devi Dasi, HG Patri Das, HG Prashanta Devi Dasi, HG Prema Padmini Devi Dasi, HG Revati Ramana Dasa, HG Sadasivananda Dasa, HG Sridama Dasa, HG Vijay Venugopala Dasa, HG Vrajalila Devi Dasi.
The vision for the Devotee Care initiative is to ensure that every devotee is spiritually happy, materially well-situated, and positively identifies ISKCON as a loving and caring society (A place where the whole world can live).
There were participant presentations, skits, group discussions and sharing experiences etc. Sensitive issues are explained with several case studies.
At the end of each session devotees gathered around Rasamandala Prabhu expressing their gratitude and discussing more on the subject and asking questions.
Most attendees were blissful having understood the essential aspect of caring for Vaishnavas in today’s ISKCON scenario.
It was very much relevant to each one of us and we have to bring more awareness about it among the ISKCON leaders and communities and see that this training sessions are conducted at each and every community in ISKCON worldwide gets benefited.
Being in GEV with many wonderful devotees and learning the very important subject matter of caring for devotees was a wonderful experience and felt the spark of experience how our Dear Srila Prabhupada cared for devotees. That was the mood of Srila Prabhupada i.e., “YOUR EVER WELL WISHER”. We hope that we all will try to follow the same mood of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada in caring for devotees.
The Devotee Care Course-1 will be formally launched during the AGM 2017 at Mayapur after giving final touches to the current version. The plans for Teachers Training in DC course will also be unfolded as also a global strategy for implementing the Devotee Care Course-1.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ISKCON this is a humble offering to Srila Prabhupada by the Devotee Care Committee in collaboration with Rasamandala Prabhu and other generous contributors and stakeholders.
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