By Kaunteya das

While I am typing this piece, Vidvan Gauranga Prabhu is talking on the Skypecast: “The Secrets of the Medieval Mystics of India.” The introduction is: “Realized sages, free from all mental conditionings, have left jewels of experienced knowledge. Such treasure of wisdom helps us to solve our problems and fulfill our deepest desires. Their message is that happiness is possible.”

People appear receptive and respectful, asking a broad range of related questions. We already distributed four Science of Self-Realization books, pdf format.

I am seeing more and more how we can flood the internet with transcendental knowledge through this medium.

Basically we could have three approaches to this skypecast preaching, with many sub-headings and styles:

1. A direct approach, for everyone, with titles like “Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Or “Lord Caitanya, the Most Munificent Avatar” and so on. In this direct approach we could highlight—in the title and introductory remarks—Krishna consciousness as it is, and we could also specifically focus on detailed themes, such as “The Differences Between the Commentaries of Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura.”
2. A “Bhakta Program” on line, focusing on those who already have some basic faith in and acceptance of the philosophy. This approach could provide an ongoing, planned curriculum, with a scheduled sequences of lessons: the guru, varnasrama, the three gunas, the various types of yoga , etc., etc.
3. An indirect approach (at least in the title and introduction), with a wide range of themes and issues that people might particularly be interested in: reincarnation, freedom from solitude, astrology, the mind: enemy or friend?, better relations and interpersonal skills, yoga secrets, and so on and on. Of course it would depend on the style, patience and overall strategy of the different preachers how direct the speeches and presentation could be, and how gradual and sequential (cumulative) the approach.

It would be good to discuss and to coordinate the efforts of various devotees, to identify languages, time zones, and individual expertise and preferences.

(This morning Kesavi Mataji, the gifted artist of the ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry, went into the “skype me” mode especially focusing on Japanese people (she is from Japan and she wants to preach to them). She sent pictures, also of Sri Sri Radha Madhava with the “Bird of Paradise” outfit she designed.)

Anyway, back to Skypecast, one idea could be to have Srila Prabhupada preaching 24/7, by organizing casts (say every 20 minutes, round the clock) of his lectures. We could just give a short introduction of each and in most cases we could use the existing titles. Of course we could also promote the speeches of other ISKCON preachers and spiritual masters, the point being that, even if we don’t have anyone for speaking live, we could have the preaching going on. And we could always provide links for free books, relevant sites, and contact information.

In this way we could systematically flood the system with Krishna consciousness.