“Families that pray together stay together, Families that sing together Cling together,
and families that Dance together advance together” Families centered around Krishna
associate with local congregation headed by consellar and spirituatual teachers. This
helps collective engagement centered around Krishna resulting in everlasting peace and
joy to one’s heart.
Seeing the world as one family – connected to that one Supreme, who is known and remembered by different names and methods across the globe. This has huge consequences: suddenly, when you’re searching for the answer to a question or need help, you’re not just looking among your family members, friends or personal network, but within a much larger group, potentially thousands of people across the whole globe.
Searching, collaborating and working within a devotional community means that the chances of finding answers to the queries we always had, the support we always needed, the true-friendships we always sought, are much bigger. There will be more people who could potentially help. The set of people who could help us will be more diverse (and therefore more valuable). A match and meaningful insights are more likely.
For over 3 decades now, we’ve been facilitating family gatherings in a number of ways to suit everyone’s convenience. The temple premises has been the most important and sought-after venue for families to come together on Sundays and festival days, to hear and share their endeavors, experiences and struggles while growing on the spiritual path. In addition, there are gatherings (also known as “congregation programs”) held in almost every part of Pune city on some evening during the week.
All. However, one size doesn’t fit all. Therefore, ISKCON Pune Camp has been endeavoring to come up with specially-curated programs for different sections of the society – the kids, the teens, the youth, just-married, settled-householders and the senior citizens. Group gatherings serve two-fold purpose – providing a generic devotional inspiration and providing a platform to interact with others like us who’re trying to advance in bhakti. For specific details please visit our Volunteer page.
Once His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, was asked by a reporter – what do you do for recreation? His reply was candid – “our movement is only recreation – chanting, dancing and feasting. Indeed, our gatherings are meant to engage our senses in what we always do, but in a manner that’s prescribed in the scriptures. So that we eventually experience our senses getting purified. But the proof is in eating the pudding. So let’s come together with our friends and families and enjoy a spiritual experience.
