ISKCON Bhagavat College

Mahanidhi Dasa: Four hundred and fifty years ago at the Radha-Damodara temple, Rupa Goswami, and then Jiva Goswami, regularly taught the principles of pure devotion to a group of Vaisnavas, who congregated there from all over India. Following in their footsteps, Srila Prabhupada tried to erect a Vaisnava school on Radha-Damodara's land behind the inner boundary wall. The temple authorities, however, rejected Prabhupada's proposal. Eight years after his unsuccessful attempt at the Radha-Damodara temple, Prabhupada outlined a similar plan to his disciple, Ravindra Svarupa Das.

"Srila Prabhupada wanted to establish an "ISKCON Bhagavat College" - a University for ISKCON. One feature of the college would be a library housing a complete collection of texts from the Vaisnava sampradayas."

But the plan of the Supreme Lord Krishna was to leave this desire of Srila Prabhupada's for his disciples to fulfill.