As it is natural for some fishes to live deep in water and for some, on the top of it, it is natural for some kind of devotes of God serve to the Lord in Countryside Monastery environment and for other kind of Devotees – in midst of massive city. It is not the optional, it is essentially necessary, for those Devotees, who not yet come to the level of Holy Sage (mahabhagavata, paramahamsa, avaduta) and by their nature more fragile and more sensitive to external environment. If we just swap over these two groups of fish or devotees, they just day, as per they psycho-physical nature they are different. As at present in Europe Continent are hundreds of monasteries and toughens of monks in different Spiritual Practices, our Vaishnava sociality ISKCON naturally growing up to the next step – create, develop and maintain “Sustainable and Long-Lasting Vaishnava Monastery and Spiritual Farm Community in Europe” according to principles given by Srila Prabhpada and explained by Radhanath Swami in seminar “Serving Vaishnavas” given in Moscow at 2, 3, 4 Dec 1997.
Right now on average, as all Europe Continent ISKCON communities together, we are losing at least 5-10 possible ISKCON future leaders, who was-are need for firs 5-7-10 years special Devotee Care in order to let go old destructive experience (as broken family, child abuse, sexual abuse, broken relationship etc) and destructive lifestyle (as alcohol, drags, gambling, sexual misuse, crime etc) and regain balanced and healthy lifestyle and internal role – servant of servant of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna and all sociality. If right now we will not create, develop and maintain special Devotee Care structure, programs and trained staff, churning rate in ISKCON Europe will increase and we will lose more and more present devotees and recruit less and less new dedicated devotees for Srila Prtabhupada mission.
To deal with above shared concerns, International Vaishnava Monastery in Europe team, under His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj and His Holiness Bhakti Vijnana Goswami Maharaj direct guidelines and SSRG temple leaders supervision we committed to create, develop and maintain such “Sustainable and Long-Lasting Vaishnava Monastery and Farm Community” according to principles given by Srila Prabhpada and explained by Radhanath Swami in seminar “Serving Vaishnavas” given in Moscow at 2-4 Dec 1997.
To support our commitment Sri Sri Radha Krishna give vision to land owner Atis Prabhu, that on his owned land are blooming International Vaishnava Monastery and Farm Community, where monks daily Chant Holy Names of Lord as Hare Krishna maha mantra and daily Glorifying, Serve and Worshipping Supreme Personality of Godhead, and guide and couch sociality leaders and individuals souls, who looking for lost relationships with Supreme Personality of Godhead. For that he offered this land to Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Bhakta Samaj trust at 12 May 2013 to legally receive this whole land and as real landowner, guide, supervise and administer take responsibility, that for rest of this universe eternity on this land will daily enthusiastically serve monks who Chant Holy Names of Lord as Hare Krishna maha mantra and daily Glorifying, Serving and Worshiping Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In future we envision International Vaishnava Monastery servants serving primarily ISKCON all Europe Continent communities, then ISKCON India, ISKCON world and all people worldwide in general as instruments of compassion to genuinely reach people’s hearts with the grace of Krishna. According to the time, place and people we committed to balance both our traditional methods with creative intelligence to connect people with the grace of our parampara.
More detail of our Project Vision given in Radhanath Swami in seminar “Serving Vaishnavas” given in Moscow at 2, 3, 4 Dec 1997 and latest “Vaishnava Monastery Project in Europe” – Vision Project.
On behalf of all project team Your humble servants BVG Janaka dasa das
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