Ganga's long-time Italian friend, Murari Chaitanya Das, now lives in Mayapur. They sat in Radio Mayapur studios and shared their lives and times.

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Chandrashekar Acharaya was born in 1973. He met with the devotees and got connected with ISKCON. He shares his journey with us on Radio Mayapur.

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Vackresvari Dasi is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Swami. She has lived in Mayapur, cultivating and teaching in the Russian community for many years. She is a serious practitioner and student of Vedic sastra knowledge and a strong proponent of the teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Vackresvari Dasi has written important books in Russian. Her most recent book is Eka Chakra Dham. Umapati Das interviews her in the Radio Mayapur studio.

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Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and H.G. Vrajendra Kumar Prabhu is a senior devotee from Russia. He was born in 1960 in Vladivostok. Since his childhood he has been interested in yoga and Eastern philosophy. He got his master’s degree in philology, translation, Asian studies and the Japanese language from the Far Eastern Federal University. In 1979 he read the ancient scripture Bhagavad Gita for the first time.

After his visit to India in 1984 he began a deep study and translation of the ancient Vedic scriptures. In 1990 he received his first initiation from H.H. Prabhavisnu Maharaja. In 1999 he graduated from the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education with a Bhakti-Sastri degree (Master of Philosophy). In 2014 he established his online astrology school.

Now he teaches the Bhakti-Sastri course in Mayapur, India and preaches Krishna consciousness in many countries, proving its applicability to our lives in the modern scientific language.

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VrajaVinod Shyam Das was born in 1979 in South India. He has completed his MBA in Maysour. He moved to Dubai for work and shifted to Mayapur in 2021. He is the CFO (Chief Finance Officer) in Mayapur. He shared his journey with us on Radio Mayapur

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Radhika Nagara Das began practicing Krishna consciousness in 1995. From 1996 to 2008, he served full-time with the Scottish Yatra. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, the Scottish Yatra was one of the leading yatras in book distribution worldwide. While serving with the Scottish Yatra, he was engaged in book distribution and became one of the managing directors and sankirtana leaders in 2003, and continued serving in that capacity until 2008. He actively preached in universities and facilitated weekly Nama-hattas and festivals in the main cities of the North of England. These included regular Bhagavad-gita classes and discourses on the philosophy of Krishna consciousness.

Since 2008, Radhika Nagar Das has mostly resided in Sridham Mayapur, studying Srila Prabhupada’s books. He coordinates and facilitates the Bhaktivaibhava course for the MI in Mayapur and the Middle East. He also spends some time in Europe, where he continues preaching, distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books, and teaching sastric courses at Instituto de Estudios Bhaktivedanta in Spain.

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Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and Shyama Sundari devi is an initiated disciple of Chaitanya Chandra Charan Das from Russia.

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Harita Madhavi Devi Dasi was born in Chennai in 1993, and her early years began living in the Middle East. Later, she shifted to Melbourne, Australia, to pursue higher studies in biomedical engineering. Mataji has been providing many services to the deities in ISKCON Melbourne. Recently, she started to live in Mayapur.

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Devaki Devi Dasi, disciple of HH Niranjana Maharaja, joined the brahmacharini ashram in Sydney/Australia in 1985. As a grihastha, she helped to pioneer the first more organized temple in the former Soviet Union and since 1999, serves as a renounced traveling preacher, regularly visiting India, Bangladesh, Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She served on the GBC Committee for Devotee Care and currently promotes such care as a top priority within the ISKCON family. Her multifaceted understanding of Vaishnava culture inspired her to establish the Institute for Spiritual Culture in 2014, offering insightful education in Vaishnava life. She has published six books and conducts Holy Name Retreats around the world.

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Prahlad Narasimha Das Adhikari was born in 1959 to a Catholic family in the historic city of Cuenca, Ecuador.

As a teenager, he began to practice yoga and TM meditation. Having reached the age of 14, he started to serve in Yogananda's Ashram, where he first became acquainted with such Vedic sciences as Jyotish astrology, Vastu, Ayurveda, having received this knowledge from a Swami, who also told him about the Maha-mantra Hare Krishna and about the Ratha Yatra procession in New York, where he saw Srila Prabhupada, the great saint from India.

In 1981, Prabhu received an initiation into Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya Yoga. His Guru, His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja, a direct disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, gave him his spiritual name of Prahlad Narasimha Das.

Prahlad Narasimha is a multi-talented Vaishnava Brahmin, a virtuous expert in personality psychology, and a mentor and consultant to thousands of people worldwide. He is an internationally recognized consulting astrologer known for his knowledge of the Bhagavata Gita As It Is and Srimad Bhagavatam, written by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.

He is the founder of the Bhakti Tree Temple of Vedic Arts, a multifunctional project with a yoga and kirtan hall, a vegetarian bistro Good Karma, an Ayurvedic SPA center, and many educational programs and festivals in Cuenca, Ecuador, and established the ISKCON Giridhari Desh farm and temple in the countryside of Cuenca.

Prahlad Prabhu maintains his preaching activities in Germany, Poland, the USA, Ecuador, Bali, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. He is the Regional Secretary for Ecuador, Peru, and Chile and is in charge of preaching and devotee care.

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