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Yadunandana Dasa: Teaching in Chile - 2009-02-14
 'During the last month of November (2008) I was very pleased to visit the ISKCON temple and congregation in Santiago de Chile. The purpose of my visit was to offer two VTE (Vaishnava Training & Education) courses and to support the educational development of ISKCON Chile. I taught together with Param Padam Dasa, an experienced educator in South America, and his wife, Ananta Sayana Dasi, who helped in many ways from the background. We offered the VTE Teacher Training Course, Level II, and the VTE Bhakti-Shastri Teacher Training Course to a group of 24 and 17 enthusiastic devotees, respectively. The courses were taught partly in the Santiago temple and partly in the house of Samya Dasa and Yogesha Dasi, two senior members of ISKCON Chile who have a beautiful house in the countryside.
The devotees who participated in the courses included temple leaders
and managers, such as Adikesava Dasa, the temple president, leaders and
members from the congregation, senior members of ISKCON Chile, a few
devotees from Argentina, and other younger devotees. The participants
expressed a desire to apply the skills they studied and practiced
during the courses in order to promote the study and propagation of
Srila Prabhupada's books and teachings'.
The temple in Santiago
is located next to the University and it is a very good facility for
preaching. The devotees regularly distribute books. They serve lunch
prasadam to students on a daily basis. They also organize regular
lectures for guests, including a 'Prabhupada programme' for students,
every Friday. In addition they have a monthly congregational gathering
during a weekend named 'Saturday Sanga'. More than 100 devotees from
different places assemble in the temple of Santiago for a full morning
programme, starting with Mangala Arati at 4.30 am and ending with a
sumptuous feast between 10.00 and 11.00 am.
It was inspiring to
visit an enthusiastic community of devotees in a beautiful corner of
the world and to offer a little contribution to its development'.
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