Seva teams, projects and devotional farms
Jaya Srila Gurudeva! Dandavats pranams to all devotes, I liked very much the draft and it’s design. I’ve been translating all the msg’s of IPBYS to portuguese and people can see them here in both portuguese and english: http://internationalpurebhaktiyogasociety.blogspot.com/ My questions is about the detailed structure of seva teams. In this draft we see that there are many seva teams that actually don’t exist (education ...more »
Jaya Srila Gurudeva!
Dandavats pranams to all devotes,
I liked very much the draft and it’s design. I’ve been translating all the msg’s of IPBYS to portuguese and people can see them here in both portuguese and english: http://internationalpurebhaktiyogasociety.blogspot.com/
My questions is about the detailed structure of seva teams. In this draft we see that there are many seva teams that actually don’t exist (education seva teams, regional seva teams), so I think that this will be created. It’s look like a more centralized way to do seva and get help from others devotees to do that seva. But how this will work? There will be focalizers for each group who I can gain advise how to do it?
I also would like see more how we can spread and join the projects of our mission. Let me give one example. In Vrinda mission of Srila Paramadvaiti Swami there are many projects like spoon revolution, yoga inbound, oidatherapy. In their temples (that look more as a cultural center to outsiders) they keep this same projects in Brazil, Peru, India and so one. They attract many people to their mission and give many ways to them do some seva according to their taste. So I think that our temples should also be like that. We should have cultural activities like devotional movies, asana classes, restaurants, natural therapies to attract people and keep the temple finance. Then we should have the same projects going on everywhere like “Center for bhakti studies” for teaching basics about bhakti; BHAKTIvinoda Institute to preach in a scientific way in universities; prasada distributions (we should create a NGO like food for life); Gaudiya Vedanta Publications to translate, publish and distribute books.
I also would like to see more unification between our farms. I also think that our farms should be the basis of our society. We should have many farms everywhere doing cow protection and growing organic food so we can send this to our Cultural Centers in the city. In ours farms we can also build natural therapies clinics and offer retreat with organic prasada (vegan/lacto/raw), asanas, devotional pratices and studies, natural therapies, etc. Just writing this I realized the importance of devotional farms so I’m going to create a devotional farms blog to our mission.
I have so many ideas, but now I have to work on them!
Thank you,
Ramananda Das
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