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Staffing the ISKCON art department.

Ramesvara: Once the house was acquired in Boston, Prabhupada’s master plan could be formed and he could then start sending devotees from his different temples to Boston. He sent Pradyumna and his wife who were in Columbus, he sent Bhakta Mark who became Muralidhara, and Devahuti who was in LA. He sent Bharadwaja and Rukmini who were in Montreal. He sent different devotees to start staffing the ISKCON art department. 

Prabhupada was already envisioning how this was going to happen. In New York Prabhupada had sent or set up four or five key devotees who, in his vision, were going to be the core of ISKCON Press and had to learn how to operate a press, how to operate a binder, how to operate this, how to operate that. So Prabhupada told them, “Instead of going on sankirtana everyday, you are going to go and get a job in a printing house, you are going to go in a photo house, you are going to go and get a job in a book bindery.”



Reference: This Is My Heart by Ramesvara Dasa