Hridaya Caitanya Dasa, Date of Birth

    

Hridaya Caitanya Dasa

Belgian Hare Krishna leader

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1950

Profession: religious leader

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Hridaya Caitanya Dasa

  • Hridaya Chaitanya Dasa, also known as Herman Janssens (born March 10, 1950), is temple president of Radhadesh, leader and Governing Body Commissioner for Belgian ISKCON, Co-GBC for the Benelux, and a member of the "Executive Committee of the ISKCON GBC Society".
  • He and his wife are disciples of Satsvarupa dasa Goswami.
  • Belgian by origin he has joined the Hare Krishna community of Amsterdam in 1980 at the age of thirty after leaving a teaching job.
  • Hridaya Caitanya is the GBC since 2002.
  • More recently he became the current Euro-GBC for Benelux.
  • He is part of the Durbuy community of Radhadesh from 1980.
  • In 1986 he became temple president of the largest Belgian centre which includes a traditional bakery, an Indian boutique, a cafeteria, a vegetarian restaurant, Gopinatha's Garden, and, as from July 2002, a guest house.
  • Bhaktivedanta College is part of the same campus.
  • The official name of Radhadesh is Maison d'hôtes Radhadesh and it is a prominent ISKCON facility with a conference room and educational courses.
  • The Radhadesh (lit.
  • 'the land of Radha') is the most important temple in the Benelux and second prominent temple of European ISKCON.
  • The tours in and around the castle form one of the most important sources of income of his project.
  • One of the most attractive features of his temple is that educational seminars are held there making it a Vaishnava education centre of Europe.
  • From 2008 he has taken up service of an administrator/manager (gerant) with a responsibility of coordinating the task force in regard to the ISKCON Dole project.

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