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Mayapur 2015: Strategic Planning Network (SPN)
MARCH 5, 2015 The GBC’s Strategic Planning Network (SPN) concluded its five-day bi-annual meeting in Mayapur. Facilitated by the GBC’s Strategic Planning Team, numerous SPN committees, made up of GBC members, ISKCON leaders and thinkers from across the globe, continued to explore new ideas and initiatives with a view to provide documents and other published […]
SGGS – Day 2
SGGS – Day 2 On day one participants explored ISKCON’s past, examining the trends in and influences on ISKCON, both internal and external. Following that participants began to look at ISKCON’s present on second day. Meeting’s facilitators started with a question: How well do the four groups in the room (the GBC members, the sannyasis, the gurus, and the […]
SGGS Day 1 report
Mayapur 2015: SGGS Day 1 On 9th February, saw the start of the much-anticipated Sanga of Sannyasis, Gurus and GBCs (SGGS). Over eighty of ISKCON’s most senior leaders and preachers from across the globe gathered in Sri Dhama Mayapur for three days of association, contemplation, and in-depth discussion in response to Srila Prabhupada’s directive to find unity in diversity. Leaders […]
Lecture on Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Appearance day
HG Hari Vilasa Prabhu gave the lecture yesterday (9th February) on Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Appearance day. Below is the transcript of the lecture. So I am very humbled to be here in front of so many exalted Vaisnavas, my Godbrothers and Godsisters, and of course Srila Prabhupada, especially today, on the appearance day of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati […]
GBC Annual General Meeting – Day One Report
After concluding the three-day Sanga for GBCs, Gurus and Sannyasis, ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission began its Annual General Meetings (AGM) on 6th February, in Mayapur, India. Arriving participants were greeted with garlands by Anuttama Dasa, the chairman of the GBC. Next, they performed a Guru Puja of Srila Prabhupada, the founder-acharya of ISKCON. The meeting […]
Update from GBC Community Relations Office
Mayapur 2015: As devotees make preparations for the start of the Annual General Meeting of the GBC and meeting of the GBC Strategic Planning Network (SPN), we will be sharing with you videos of devotees speaking on the numerous initiatives the GBC has embarked on in preparation for ISKCON’s future. We’ll also show the significant […]
HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami – SB 4.9.11 – February 26th, 2013
HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami: So today we are going to read from Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 9 “Dhruva Maharaja Returns Home” Text 11. This is all in the context of our SGGS, the Sanga of GBCs, Gurus and Sannyasis. So it is out of the normal scheme of things as the Bhagavatam classes are […]
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