The Bhakti Vriksha system provides holistic care for devotees through small personal groups that address devotees' emotional, spiritual, and physical needs. Devotees receive care and training from leaders in an hierarchical structure to ensure their complete development. This system empowers devotees to become leaders themselves and expand to form loving Vaishnava communities united in their preaching mission under the guidance of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

1. Devotee care in the Bhakti Vriksha
System
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Bhakti Vriksha provides care to devotees in the
following stages:
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Emotional, spiritual and physical
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Can be done for expanding communities
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Can be easily duplicated
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Based on Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mood
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When the community becomes large enough,
dedicated facilities for physical care can be
supported

2. Devotee care in the Bhakti Vriksha
System
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Complete care and development of a devotee taken
up in small personal groups
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The leader has a role of both a teacher and a parent
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Hierarchy of parental devotees providing care to
each individual
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Every leader has a senior to guide and supervise him
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Good networking and cooperation between the
different BV groups ensure efficient care

3. Devotee care in the Bhakti Vriksha
System
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Study groups,regular leaders meetings, counseling
and seminars provide continued care and education
even after group multiplication
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Spiritual empowerment of devotees after being
trained gives them enthusiasm and engages their
optimum potential
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Every one has possibility for growth and position
which happens automatically due to performance

4. Devotee care in the Bhakti Vriksha
System
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Unlocks the hidden leadership potential of a large
number of devotees
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Since leadership is based on inspiration and service
and not on domination, relationships thrive even
with expansion
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Creates very naturally and organically loving
Vaishnava communities providing complete care and
protection
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Mood of cooperation among all Guru's disciples and
members of other Preaching groups facilitated

5. Aspects of devotee care:
Giving love and friendship
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Ice-breaker and satsanga session in Bhakti Vriksha
meetings
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Regular Telephone calls and periodic home visits
and picnics
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Developing close personal relationships
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Listening to material and spiritual problems from
members
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Counseling and spiritual guidance given through
different levels of leaders like an extended family

6. Instilling faith and devotion
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Importance given to practical aspects of devotional
service
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Japa session and japa marathon
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Every member is engaged in some service to ensure
development of responsibility and enthusiasm
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Close personal contacts and relationships between
leader and members and between members
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Periodic Siksha seminars to inspire them to more
and more commitment

7. Giving knowledge in Krishna
consciousness
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Interactive discussions from Srila Prabhupada's
books
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Systematic curriculum (BV modules) to ensure basic
understanding of Krishna consciousness
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Interactive Study classes in Bhagavad gita and
Srimad Bhagavatam
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Handbooks to train members in all practical
devotional services, songs, slokas and philosphical
explanations, Vaishnava etiquette

8. Giving knowledge in Krishna
consciousness (2)
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Continued Study classes even after group
multiplication
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Higher and higher levels of study continues under
the senior devotees of Bhakti Vriksha as well as
Bhakti shastri, Bhakti Vaibhava, etc
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Every level of leader is under the guidance of a
senior leader like sector leader, circle leader, greater
circle leadermand so on who encourage and
supervise the continued study of every one

9. Training in spiritual practices
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Siksha levels ensure that everyone learns and
practices devotional activities in gradual steps
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Taking vows and commitments before senior
devotees and Srila Prabhupada makes them serious
in keeping their commitments
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Decentralized festival programs help all the
members to be trained in all the different devotional
activities
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Regular visits and services at the local temple makes
them further trained

10. Helping in application of knowledge
in their day to day lives
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Every weekly meeting has an application question
discussed based on the passage learnt
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Devotees share regularly with their leaders on their
spiritual progress
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Spiritual solutions to material problems are regularly
discussed both at the meetings as well as in personal
talks with the leaders
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All family members of the devotees also befriended
through home visits

11. Engaging them in devotional
activities
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Everyone is engaged in some voluntary service
during the weekly meetings
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Supervision and guidance provided to help them
maintain a proper altar at home and render services
to Deities when they reach the proper standard at
minimum Guru Ashraya level
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Engaged in preaching activities from the beginning
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Participation in all Temple as well as decentralized
programs

12. Providing material support
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Finding marriage partners for members becomes a
joint responsibility of the different levels of
leaders.
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Expanding Vaishnava community facilitates the
finding of like- minded partners
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Requirement of jobs and availability of jobs
announced and all members help in this
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Assistance at home and hospital, fun d raising and
prayers for medical care

13. Training and empowering them to be
preachers and leaders
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Bringing new people to the program
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Book distribution
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Taking part in Hari nama
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Accompanying leader on home visits
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Attending out reach programs
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Assisting leader in taking care of devotees
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Training to conduct the different parts of the
program in the last three months

14. Instilling and developing Vaishnava
qualities
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Vaishnava etiquette seminars
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Personal preaching develops true humility
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Regular leaders' meetings, reporting, consulting and
supervision results in instilling cooperative mood
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Every one is a senior and junior at the same time, so
can understand the proper mood
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Preaching purifies one's offensive mentality
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Empowering others removes pride and
possessiveness

15. Enabling them to be self reliant to
take initiatives
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Interactive method of study lays strong foundation
in understanding philosophy
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Love and trust among devotees builds their self-
confidence
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From the beginning leader is training and
empowering the members to take up responsibilities
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The whole system fosters self reliance and team-
work

16. Ensures good quality and quantity of
devotees
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Love and friendship awakens the spirituality quickly
in them and gives them bhakti
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Interactive study gives them good knowledge
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Services, Sadhana and practical application of the
Bhagavad-gita in their day to day lives gives them
deep realizations
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Training, empowerment, and support from senior
leaders helps them to become good leaders and keep
increasing the quantity of devotees

17. Ensures good quality and quantity of
devotees
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Good quality of devotees ensures continuing growth
in quantity
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Very less chances of fall downs or getting deviated
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Gives them the capability of rendering services
throughout their lives wherever they may go
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Becoming leaders motivates them to be good
examples
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Keeps them always enthusiastic

18. Ensures good quality and quantity of
devotees
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Organic growth of a hierarchy of leaders who
personally teach, inspire and take care of their
juniors
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Lifetime care provided
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Everyone learns how to provide personal spiritual
counseling

19. An empowered devotee community
united in purpose, controlled by love
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Every one develops the preaching mood to give
personal care and mercy to all
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All decisions are taken on the basis of what is the
best for the preaching mission. So there is a
common vision and unity
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Seniors' example and inspiration serves to inspire
the juniors to follow
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No command and control approach, as every one is
cared for by different levels of leaders
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Regular meetings of leaders to share reports,plan,
review and help one another

20. An empowered devotee community
united in purpose, controlled by love
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Seniors are tolerant and forgiving and manage
everything through love and humility
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All sections of society covered easily through
Bhakti Vriksha
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Harmony between different classes and educational
backgrounds through common programs and picnics
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Preaching makes everyone develop the spiritual
vision more quickly
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Equal opportunity and freedom for all, minimizing
envy or politics

21. The Lord is the supreme controller
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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mood of compassion is
the guiding principle of the Bhakti Vriksha
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Problems are solved more easily for those who are
following His instructions of preaching
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Preachers become more surrendered to following
the idealistic path and in compromising with others
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Results are achieved by depending on His mercy
and doing one's best
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Minimizes politics between devotees

22. Mood, instructions and example of
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
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Making loving friendly relationships before
philosophy
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Developing service attitude through giving personal
care
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Making rapid spiritual advancement in Bhakti
through serving other devotees
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From Bhakti comes jnana and vairagya easily
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Preaching from the very beginning gives them the
complete mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

23. Relationship with the Temple
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Attending and rendering services during sunday
programs
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Attending advanced study programs
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Making avail of Samskaras
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Association of senior Temple devotees for special
periodic by- monthly programs
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Participation in Book distribution, Harinams,
festivals
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Involvement of Temple devotees in meetings

24. Integration with the entire Vaishnava
community
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Different Gurus disciples can coexist in the same
group
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Cooperation with other autonomous groups
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Bhakti Vriksha for farming devotees
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Co-operation with devotees of all specializations
like book distribution, Hari namas, Food for life,
fund raisers, etc