7h: ISKCON Press

ISKCON Press trains young men in all phases of the printing trade and turns out the society's ever increasing volume of literature. The press department was started by several of His Divine Grace's disciples who worked at commercial printing jobs for a number of years. The savings they earned over that time were eventually put toward the purchase of printing machinery, which was set up in the building owned by the Boston Center of ISKCON, and with the skill gained by years of outside experience, they began publishing the holy Vedic Scriptures, such as Īsopanisad and Bhagavad-gita, as translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, and the society's magazine, Back to Godhead, which has a monthly circulation of 150,000 and is printed in four languages. His Divine Grace has asked the press to produce a book every two months, and he has also prepared to translate sixty volumes of the Scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam over a ten-year period. These plans are actually progressing on schedule, by the grace of Krsna.

ISKCON Press receives dictaphone tapes of Srila Prabhupada speaking; these are typed, edited and layed out, then printed, bound and shipped to worldwide centers of Krsna consciousness. Also in Boston, an art department of four devotees, painters, whose works are all authorized by the spiritual master, produces magnificent color illustrations for all books published by ISKCON Press. ISKCON Press is a beehive of transcendental activity existing solely for the glorification of the Supreme Lord, and it has been called the "heart of ISKCON" by Srila Prabhupada.