His Grace Gopiparanadhana Prabhu was Co-director in Govardhana and head teacher of the Sanskrit academy - Srimad-Bhagavata Vidyapitham. Although from United States, he stayed most of the time in Govardhan. Students from various parts of the world would flock to govardhan to study high level of Sanskrit and bhakti from him. Geoffrey Klausner was born on June 28, 1950 in New York City. He first learnt about ISKCON in 1966 on television. He received his BA in linguistics from Columbia University in 1972 and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1973. He recived his second initiation in 1975. He served as Sanskrit translator for the BBT and had been working for the BBT since 1973. After Srila Prabhupada passed away Gopiparanadhana helped complete the Srimad Bhagavatam, Mukunda-mala-stotra and Narada-bhakti-sutra. He continued to translate Gaudiya-Vaishnava literature from Sanskrit, and training devotees in sanskrit till his last days. He lived most of his latter part of life in Govardhan, Vrindavan, India with his wife - Archa-murti Devi Dasi, his son - Gaura Mohana, and two cows. He passed away on 15th September 2011 in the morning at Govardhan, Vrindavan.
Books translated by Gopiparanadhana dasa:
Sri Brihad Bhagavatamrita (3 volumes)
Sri Krishna-lila-stava
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We pray that we can in some way please him by following his instructions.
