When he was thirty years old Hrdaya Caitanya Dasa, a disciple of Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, left his teaching job in 1980 to become a full-time member of the Hare Krishna community in Amsterdam. He returned to his native Belgium where, in 1986, he took up the post of temple president at the devotee community known as Radhadesh, one of ISKCON’s most significant European establishments. Recognition for his leadership abilities led the European ISKCON leaders to appoint him to the GBC in 2002 as representative for Benelux. Along with serving for half a year in the leadership of the Mayapur project, his responsibilities in the GBC include overseeing the following European countries: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
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