During the ISKCON Leadership Sanga, more than fifty talks and workshops were presented on a wide range of topics from the meaning of Srila Prabhupada as ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya, to elements of a well-developed ISKCON temple, to Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on Deity Worship, to developing monthly sankirtana festivals.
Plenary Sessions were also held every morning, during which time GBC committees, ministries, strategic planning groups, and individual projects presented their annual report to all of the ISKCON Leadership Sanga participants. The following are a few highlights:
On behalf of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium team, Ambarisa dasa was pleased to announce that in 2016, Sri Panca-tattva and Sri Radha-Madhava and the Asta-Sakhis will be able to move into their new home in the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium. In addition to a massive kirtan hall, the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium will contain an altar 130 feet in diameter where Sri Panca-tattva will reside in the middle, Sri Radha Madhava and the Asta-sakhis on the right, and our entire parampara on the left. Hanging above the Deity house will be a chandelier displaying, as Srila Prabhupada desired, Vedic cosmology according to Srimad Bhagavatam, and the entire left-side wing of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium will be dedicated to exhibits and a planetarium theatre to explain the science and cosmology of the Srimad Bhagavatam. Ambarisa dasa emphasized that this temple belongs to the entire global ISKCON community and everyone was encouraged to participate in realizing Srila Prabhupada’s instructions to construct such a temple in ISKCON’s world headquarters, Sridham Mayapur.
