May 3rd, 2006
KC @ uni
I have been thinking about how to introduce Krishna consciousness to university students in Brisbane. I’ve had some experience of doing this at universities in the UK and that seemed to go quite well. Universities in Australia seem to work in pretty much the same way as UK unis so I will try to use the same approach that I used in the past and organize meetings through a university club/society.
The benefits of being recognized as a bona fide uni club or society are numerous: free use of university rooms, some financial support, advertising on the university websites etc.
Last Saturday I got to know some of the students from Griffith Uni who come to the temple and we talked about establishing a Bhakti Club there. Some devotees from the temple are already doing prasada distribution at Griffith twice per week and I went with them on Tuesday so that I could meet some other interested students. I am still in the stage of collecting the email addresses of interested persons and when there are enough of us we can set up the club.
This week I found out that there is already a Bhakti Yoga Club established at the University of Queensland. They are doing yoga there with one of the teachers from AtmaYoga Brisbane. That is a good start. The next step would be to organize some talks and Bhagavad-gita discussions and maybe some mantra meditation workshops or mantra jams (musical jams using mantras and a variety of musical instruments). I have contacted the organizer of the club to see what can be done.
I plan to use this blog to write about my experiences with this KC @ uni project and I have created a new subcategory for it under the bhakti yoga catgegory.