Gender

Male

Birthday:

November 5

Name / Initiated name

Mark Rumsey/ Madhavananda Das

Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.

16

When, where and how did you come into contact with the Hare Krishna Movement?

In America in 1972

Name the nearest or most frequently Visited ISKCON temple/ centre and name few of the devotees whom you know.

ISKCON Puri Bhakti Purushottam Swami

Please describe yourself so that other like minded devotees can find you.

Aspirant for bhajan and guru-seva. Writing, publishing and researching Gaudiya mysteries. Born in a rural part of Southern Illinois. Moved to Colorado with parents, at age 8, then to San Jose California at 14. Graduated from High School in San Jose and immediately started traveling around the states looking for some meaning in life. Lived in the wilderness and a cave on Mount Lemon in Arizona. Moved into the ISKCON Los Angeles temple in early 1982. Initiated as Nityananda Das, by Rameswar Prabhu in 83. Served in LA until 87, shifted to Boulder Colorado for a year then to Seattle. Served in Seattle as head pujari for some time, then for a year as temple president. Shifted to Alachua, served for two years doing pujas and samskaras. Initiated again by Gour Govinda Maharaja in 1993, shifted to Bhubaneswar Orissa in October of that year where we have been serving doing publication work and parikramas since. Blessed to be married to a serious and wonderful Vaishnavi -- Krishna Kund Dasi. We are aspiring for guru-seva, sadhu-sanga, nama-kirtana, dhama-parikrama, and hari-katha. See our website: www.gopaljiu.org

Describe any specific service you would love to offer to Lord Krishna & His devotees?

Krishna-katha