Visitors to the temple are factually guests of the Lord who resides as the Deity in the temple. Just as we honour the Deities with the highest standards of spiritual service, we receive the pilgrims with utmost care. Srila Prabhupada emphasized the need to maintain cleanliness and timeliness in Deity worship. These form the major principles behind the facilities deployed in managing the Deity darshana for the pilgrims.
Water: As the holy shrine rests on a hill devoid of reach of ground water, we are entitled to provide for the drinking and washing water requirements atop the hill. Several thousands of gallons of water reach the hill in tankers, day in and day out. Our water purifier renders the fluid potable. The Akshaya Patra kitchen consumes a sizeable lot of the water for its mammoth cooking project.
Security: We have deployed security personnel to guard this palace of Sri Sri Radha Krishna-Chandra. They work in different shifts to make sure that this well accepted pilgrim spot is out of reach of a miscreants of the society. This also ensures a smooth experience of darshana for the thousands of pilgrims who swarm this shrine every day.
Buffers: Numerous visitors rush to the sanctum sanctorum in the weekends and festival days. Unless there is a regulation on the queues that lead to darshana, stampedes and medical emergencies will raise regular alarms. Hence, we have arranged well– designed buffers that comfortably lead the pilgrims to the Lord.
Clean way: Srila Prabhupada was extremely particular that ISKCON temples should remain spick and span always. In an effort to please our beloved spiritual master, we have deployed a large number of personnel to keep this seven-acre land neat and clean.
Footwear Stand: “This is a remarkable project worth emulation and detailed study," says a renowned MBA professor from a reputable institute. The subject here is the footwear deposit and retrieval system in place at Hare Krishna Hill, for the convenience of the pilgrims. We provide tokens to identify that unique sack that holds their footwear during their visit. These sacks are stacked systematically to avoid exchange of footwear among pilgrims. Later, when the visitors show their tokens, they receive their specific footwear. This facility houses huge partitions that can hold footwear of around nine thousand two hundred and fifty people. There is also a section dedicated to safe keep your valuables- like cameras.
Use of technology: Srila Prabhupada taught from the Bhagavad-gita that : As long as we are in this material world we have to act; we cannot cease acting. Therefore if actions are performed and the fruits are given to Krishna, then they are called yukta-vairägya. Actually situated in renunciation, such activities clear the mirror of the mind, and as the practitioner gradually makes progress in spiritual realization he becomes completely surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, at the end he becomes liberated. By this liberation he does not become one with the Brahmajyoti, but rather enters into the planet of the Supreme Lord. At ISKCON Bangalore we use the best of technologies to execute our services to the Lord.
Restaurant: A visit to the temple is incomplete without darshana of the Lord or the honouring of His prasadam. Annakoota and The Higher Taste, the restaurants, at ISKCON Bangalore, provides authentic sattvic cuisine that will uplift your consciousness.
