Episode 2

The Beginning; It Was a Different ISKCON with Kaunteya Das GBC SPT welcomes you to join the second part of our 5-week series on the GBC History. This series is to encourage devotees to ask any questions pertaining to the GBC body, its conception to inception to execution. About Kaunteya Das Born in Rome, Italy, in 1963; he joined ISKCON in May 1980. After years of full-time book distribution, he moved to India, where he is based for more than twenty-seven years and where he served, among other things, as Gurukula teacher in Mayapur (Bhakti-Sastri, Bhakti-Vaibhava, etc.). He regularly teaches at the ILS (ISKCON Leadership Sanga) and at the GBC College. Kaunteya Das is also a certified mediator and has practiced conflict resolution in several countries. Kaunteya Das has a PhD in Indovedic Psychology and serves as distance-learning professor of Indovedic Philosophy & Psychology at the Bhakti Yoga College (Florida, USA), overseeing students from various continents. (www.bhaktiyogacollege.com) He authored/compiled the following books on congregational development: the Bhakti-vriksha Manual, the Book of Icebreakers and Super Sunday. He has travelled to dozens of countries presenting seminars and workshops on principles and ideas for building vibrant Vaisnava communities. (www.iskconcongregation.com, www.bhaktimarriages.com) At present he is serving as: Co-Minister with HH Jayapataka Maharaja, his diksa-guru – of the ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry Co-Chairman – with HG Gopal Bhatta Prabhu – of the GBC Organizational Development Committee Member of the GBC Strategic Planning Team Member of the Strategic Planning Committee for Mayapur