Question: Is there anything that we can do to diminish the disinterest of devotees with ISKCON around the world? The devotees are being interested with the facilities in Iskcon and they are in other matts or other Gaudiyas. Is there any way we can collaborate with them in a way that we can favor their advance in devotional service?

Jayapataka Swami: I didn’t understand. As Srila Prabhupada wanted to unite the Saraswat family. But in the foreign countries, how to cooperate with the other matts is a question. So if the leaders can make some agreement with the matts on basic standards of association, then it is possible. Like we are trying to develop that in Mayapur with the different Gaudiya matts. But in other countries, at first we do some joint program like Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur’s Appearance Day. We do it in the morning ourselves and then in the afternoon we have some joint program with the Gaudiya matt. We all speak for some time on His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur or Bhakti Vinod Thakur. So like this we are starting to have some interfaith kind of arrangement. Since we are all from the same root, same family, same parampara. But one has to be careful. We make an agreement not to blaspheme Srila Prabhupada or anyone in the Gaudiya matt. We try to treat everyone with respect and as our cousins.
24-OCTOBER-2019 SRIDHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA