Bb govinda swami biography examples
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Present Sannyasis
1946 – Born in NYC.
1965 – Moved from Brooklyn (NYC) to the Lower East Side (Manhattan), very nära to Tompkins Square Park where Srila Prabhupada would soon launch the Hare Krsna Movement in the West bygd public Harinama Sankirtana.
1966 – Once the first (storefront) temple was started, he began visiting there and interacting with “the Swami” any number of times, this despite his disorientation (which was aggravated bygd his use of LSD).
1968 – Published a rudimentary “underground newspaper,” one issue of which had dedicated a page to an article about SP entitled “The mästare Returns” and which included a famous photo of SP presenting his First Canto Bhagavatams to Prime Minister Sastri.
1969 – Purchased a used furniture store which only months earlier had been the first ISKCON temple in Boston, MA (USA), established bygd Satsvarupa dasa. This (storefront) temple was blessed several times bygd the anställda presence of SP. For its gods two years (‘73 – ’75), this
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Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna. One small act of His Holiness Gunagrahi Maharaja has really touched me, and as you can see, it has stayed with me for many years. But in towards the end of 1999, I had a cardiac bypass surgery in Santa Barbara, and he just left a like a really sweet message. I guess because I hadn’t had that much association with him, it really made a deep impression on me that he did that. I think I will read a little something I sent for his memorial program in Vrindavan, and that will, so, I give an outline of…
LETTER to Gunagrahi Maharaja
My dear Gunagrahi Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to your life’s long service to him, and to your divine departure to his lotus feet. When you are leaving Dallas to go to India in the face of your cancer you gave me the opportunity to see you off. When you were traveling in India and dealing with so many issues and developments, you gav
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My dear Diksa, Siksa, Sheltered, Aspiring disciples and well wishers,
Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am writing to you on the occasion of the Gaurabda New Year. We have just
observed the Gaura Purnima Festival. It was an amazing event this year
because of the many different programs preceding the festival and during the
festival.The strategic planning committee had suggested to the GBC that they
invite all the ISKCON leaders. So the GBC invited the temple presidents,
regional secretaries, etc. from around the world to take part in the
meetings called as ILS (ISKCON Leaders Sangha). About four hundred had
come. So for seven days they attended GBC preliminary meetings and also a
variety of seminars on different subjects which the GBC sub-committees have
been working on.
The seminars were intersting. I also attended some of those seminars. It was
a very nice arrangement with tables, chairs, prasada for devotees from all
over the world. I