Audichya Sahasra Brahmin
family on 1st August 1944. Vedavyasapriya Swami worked as a
research biochemist in purvasrama both in East Africa and USA.
Within a week of arrival in the USA, he had association of the
disciples of His Divine Grace, Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada.
Circumstances led Vedavyasapriya Swami to give up mundane research
and take full shelter of the Supreme Absolute Truth. Since before
his first initiation by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada in 1977
in New York, Vedavyasapriya Swami has served the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in various capacities
including personal secretary to the GBC, President of ISKCON of
Queens, NY, Director of Bharatiya Community Services in New
Vrindavan, West Virginia. After 1987 Vedavyasapriya Swami shifted
attention to serving India following the instruction of Srila
Prabhupada that every Indian trained in the West must help to serve
in India. Since 1991 Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaja has been based
in Vrindavan, India, and his services have included overseeing the
functioning of one asrama in Vrindavan and also the Bharatpur
Asrama; and wider services of Regional Secretary in Punjab and
Haryana, and as Chairman of North Indian Temples Divisional Council
for the seven years following its inception. Since 1998
Vedavyasapriya Swami has been serving Srila Prabhupada and his
movement as a Spiritual Authority in the form of an Initiating
Spiritual Master, and has been preaching far and wide throughout
the world the message of Guru and Krishna. He is currently free
from management duties, making a full commitment to giving
spiritual guidance, preaching and teaching to devotees of all
levels of advancement in Krishna Consciousness philosophy, sadhana,
deity worship and temple seva.
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