ISKCON Leadership Sanga 2023 Announcement

Esteemed Devotees
Please accept our sincere obeisances to each of you.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We on the ILS steering committee, are excited to announce the return of the ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS) to be held in person in Sri Dhama Mayapur February 11-16th of 2023.

First established in 2012, ILS has become ISKCON’s premier gathering of present and future leaders from around the globe. We come together in the spirit of Srila Prabhupada’s instruction that the leaders of his society should gather once a year at our holy headquarters of Sri Dhama Mayapur and discuss unity in diversity.

Threats to global stability over the past 3 years have helped us all become acutely aware of the need for this kind of synergy and interdependence. Our individual strength lies ultimately in the quality of our sanga, and the quality of our collective sanga relies on each of us offering our individual strengths in a mood of service.

ISKCON communities across the globe have shown incredible resilience during the seemingly perpetual upheaval which began during the time of our last ILS, in the spring of 2020. Local efforts to effectively cultivate new devotees and care for existing devotees persisted thus Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON remains today an international and progressive spiritual society despite the daunting challenges of recent times.

Inspired by these worthy efforts of individual yatras we will theme this upcoming ILS around the idea of ‘Building Local Communities for Global Unity.’

Srila Prabhupada stressed the value of leaders commitments to their local projects in a letter to Hrdayanada, 1972.

‘Our managers should be very responsible for developing their center to the top most standard…. My idea is that the leaders must agree to stick at one place, even they may have to remain there life long, that is the ideal leader, one who is conscious of his duy.’

By offering our communities day to day, living examples of the precepts shared by regional and global preachers, local leaders help to ensure a vibrant and dynamic ISKCON worldwide. We come together this ILS in a mood of supporting them and leveraging their dedication for the welfare of all in the service of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and his followers.

Please consider this letter a personal invitation for you to join us during this exciting five day event featuring seminars by exceptional devotional leaders from around the world.

Visit www.ilsglobal.org to register, find details about accommodations for attendees, our famous prasadam arrangements, and updates on the exciting list of speakers and seminars.

Your Servants
The ILS Steering Committee