{"id":18995,"date":"2015-08-13T09:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:04:36","slug":"offering-to-srila-prabhupada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=18995","title":{"rendered":"Offering to Srila Prabhupada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-DCB07iQWEVU\/VcxfuEiIceI\/AAAAAAAASJE\/XyLEtUnhJVs\/s0\/2015-08-13_11-13-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of August 13, 2015 \u2013 the 50 year Anniversary since departure of Jaladhuta on Kolkata dock, <\/p>\n<p>ISKCON can report there are:<\/p>\n<p><b>CENTRES<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>602 ISKCON Temples World wide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>65 Farms \/ Eco Villages <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>54 Educational Institutes: Including primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary Colleges <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>110 Vegetarian Hare Krishna Restaurants worldwide <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>DEVOTEES<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>75,000 devotees in ISKCON have received initiation (taken clerical vows) <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>7 million worshippers attend an ISKCON centre annually <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>2000 home study \/ worship (Bhakti Vriksa) groups meet regularly worldwide (consisting some 30,000 devotees)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <b>BOOKS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>516 million books have been published by the BBT and distributed worldwide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>SANCTIFIED MEAL DISTRIBUTION<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>3 billion plates of sanctified vegetarian meals (prasadam) have been served to the worldwide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>1.2 million plates of sanctified vegetarian meals (prasadam) are now served daily to Indian children as part of the \u201cMidday Meal\u201d or \u201cAnnamrita\u201d by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>FESTIVALS, CHANTING &amp; PADAYATRA<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>1000 hari nama chanting parties go chanting on the streets worldwide every week. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>6000 Vaisnava festivals held every year globally in ISKCON Centres celebrating festivals like Sri Krishna Janmastami, Rama Namani and Sri Jaganath Rathayatra. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Padayatra devotees have walked 210 000 KM on Padayatra Worldwide visiting 52 000 villages in 110 countries<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>References: GBC Census, ISKCON.com directory, Iskcondesiretree.com directory, Sankirtana Newsletter, Congregational Development Ministry, Gaurangi dd for Padayatra, FFL Global &amp; ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, ISKCON Communications <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-uOnlb3ScK7U\/Ver2KhYXQzI\/AAAAAAAATXA\/9qgJ44ejOSE\/s0\/2015-09-05_16-03-22.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Damodara Pandit das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> ISKCON can report there are: CENTRES 602 ISKCON Temples World wide \u00a065 Farms \/ Eco Villages\u00a0 54 Educational Institutes: Including primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary Colleges\u00a0 110 Vegetarian Hare Krishna Restaurants worldwide\u00a0  DEVOTEES 75,000 devotees in ISKCON have received  initiation (taken clerical vows)  7 million worshippers attend an ISKCON centre annually  2000 home study \/ worship (Bhakti Vriksa) groups meet regularly worldwide (consisting some 30,000 devotees) BOOKS 516 million books have been published by the BBT and distributed \u00a0worldwide. 1000 hari nama chanting parties go chanting on the streets worldwide every week. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19601,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions\/19601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}