Vaniseva Service Network (VaniSN)

Introduction

The word Vani refers to instructions/teachings that come directly from Krishna in the form of Vedic scriptures and from His pure representatives in parampara. Service to vani is a sacred act and the Vaniseva Service Network is specifically designed to facilitate this sacred act to be performed to the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada by building the Vanipedia.

When the Vanipedia project is complete the world will have an exceptional access to, and understandability of, the vani of Srila Prabhupada. We welcome all devoted people to participate in this noble attempt and hope that your personal services offered will help you develop a more intimate relationship with Srila Prabhupada through service.

We are all aware of how social networks facilitate communities of people to be built around a common cause. A service networkalso faciliates communities of people to join together around common ideals. Thus it is our aspiration that the Vaniseva Service Network will give its participants many increased opportunities for service to Srila Prabhupada's Vani.

This service network can only be accessed by registered users who have been invited to join. If you have some interest to join it, then please send an introductory email to vaniseva@pamho.net

Vanipedia

Vanipedia is an encyclopaedic platform on the web, with the aim to present this full inheritance of spiritual teachings by Srila Prabhupada to a worldwide audience.

Vanipedia is depicted as a lotus flower having six petals. The foundational petal is Vanisource, containing the books, lectures, conversations and letters in text form. The aim of the other petals is to provide dynamic entrances into this source of knowledge, by means of collections of quotes, media fragments, introductory articles and online courses etc. that all find their substance from the original source. Each entrance creating a voyage into the heart of spiritual wisdom. A voyage that can give an unparalleled experience of meeting Srila Prabhupada through his words, thoughts and teachings.
The Vanisource petal is already finished. Vaniquotes (presenting collections of quotes transversing the source) was the second petal to be opened and is now in full growth with more then 13,000 categories, 63,000 pages and 1,300,000 quotes. Introductory articles are being prepared and the Vanimedia petal (with audio, photographs and video) will soon start to be opened for creating content. The other petals (see www.vanipedia.org for a description) will follow later on.

Aim and purpose of Vaniseva

The creation of Vanipedia is a collaborative process. The work is done by a large number of devotees (vaniservants), who in situated in different places and in their spare time are doing service for building the Vanipedia.
The aim and purpose of the Vaniseva Service Network is to get the lotus flower of Vanipedia into full bloom, with all the petals opened for exploration and completely filled with content.

The Vaniseva Service Network

This service network is the home of the Vaniservants. It is the place where the community of devotees who are building Vanipedia can associate with each other to gain inspiration and expertise, and where new people can get information on how they can also perform Vaniseva. The place where people can find tutoring materials, find tutors, and can take up tasks.

Where can I perform Vaniseva?

Because this is an on-line community project, you can perform Vaniseva from anywhere in the world. We need the assistance of devotees with many different skills, so if you have some abilities, some free time and most importantly faith in and dedication to the teachings of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada then it is quite possible that there is some Vaniseva for you to perform.

How to participate ?

To bring Vanipedia to it's full potential many devotees are needed to perform Vaniseva. There is a large variety of services that is needed, such as: The most active group so far is the compilers in the Vanquotes petal. At the moment 50 devotees regularly contribute. We have streamlined the compiling process and Vanitutors are ready to train new compilers. If you want to compile quotes or want more information or how to be involved in other ways please contact us here. We will be very happy to serve with you.

How to donate ?

If you do not have the time to help out, please consider to contribute by making a donation.