Prabhupada also lived at Gaudiya Matha at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, where he wrote and edited the Gauḍīya Patrikā magazine. referring to the need for the literary presentation of the Vaishnava culture. His guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, had always encouraged him to print books. įrom 1950 onwards, he lived at the medieval Radha-Damodar mandir in the holy town of Vrindavan, where he began his commentary and translation work of the Sanskrit work Bhagavata Purana. He is well known by the honorific Prabhupāda. In 1947, the Gaudiya Vaishnava Society gave him the title Bhaktivedanta, ( bhakti- vedānta). In 1944, he started the publication called Back to Godhead, for which he was writer, designer, publisher, editor, copy editor and distributor. In 1933 he became a formally initiated disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta. He was asked to spread the message of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the English language. In 1922, he met his spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, in Prayagraj. In February 2014, ISKCON's news agency reported reaching a milestone of distributing over half a billion of his books since 1965. After his death in 1977, ISKCON, the society he founded based on a form of Hindu Krishnaism using the Bhagavata Purana as a central scripture, continued to grow. He has been described as a charismatic leader who was successful in acquiring followers in many countries including the United States, Europe and India. He was criticized by anti-cult groups, but was appreciated by several American religious scholars. As a travelling Vaishnava monk, he became an influential communicator of Gaudiya Vaishnavite theology to India and specifically to the Western world through his leadership of ISKCON, founded in 1966. In 1959, after his retirement, he left his family to become a sannyasi and started writing commentaries on Vaishnava scriptures. While working at a small pharmaceutical business, he met and became a follower of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.
īorn in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in a Suvarna Banik family, he was educated at the Scottish Church College. Members of ISKCON view Bhaktivedanta Swami as a representative and messenger of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.Ībhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami ( IAST: Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmī 1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977 ) was an Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava guru who founded ISKCON, commonly known as the " Hare Krishna movement". Sannyasa, 1959 (by Bhakti Prajnan Keshava) Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta Ībhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhakti-vedānta Svāmīĭiksha, 1933 (by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati)
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