Giriraj Swami was born Glenn
Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His
Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya
of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, in March of
1969, while studying at Brandeis University in Boston, and
considered that he learned more from Srila Prabhupada in five
minutes than he had learned in his twenty years of academic
education. After graduating from Brandeis cum laude, Glenn took
formal initiation from Srila Prabhupada and was given the spiritual
name “Giriraj Das.” In 1972, after Giriraj had toured India with
Srila Prabhupada, Prabhupada appointed him President of ISKCON
Bombay as well as a trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. After
Srila Prabhupada’s departure in 1977, Giriraj was awarded the
renounced order of life and appointed president of ISKCON’s board
of trustees in India. In 1982 he was made a member of the ISKCON’s
Governing Body Commission, the ultimate managing authority for the
movement, and went on to oversee the Society’s activities in
Bombay, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Sri Lanka, and
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