On February 26th, the GBC Executive Committee released the following statement on the departure of His Holiness Badrinarayan Swami:
His Holiness Badrinarayan Swami Departs from this World in the Sacred Land of Sri Vrindavan Dham
26 February 2026
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We wish to inform the worldwide community of devotees that His Holiness Badrinarayan Swami left this world this evening, 26 February 2026, in Sri Vrindavan Dham. He passed away peacefully in his room after a brief illness.
Badrinarayan Maharaja, reknowned for his learning, frankness, humour and dedication was an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was born in 1952, met Srila Prabhupada in 1969, and moved into the Laguna Beach temple as a full-time devotee in 1970. He took initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1971, was awarded the sannyasa order of life in 2014 and became an ISKCON diksa-guru in 2020. He is survived by his children, Anasuya and Nila Madhava, from his previous asrama.
The list of Maharaja’s glorious services to ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada are numerous: in the early days he served in St Louis and Detroit temples, undertook travelling sankirtana, and served as the temple president of ISKCON Ann Arbor and ISKCON San Diego, the latter remaining his home temple from 1978 to the present day. He was integral in setting up the first Child Protection Office in ISKCON. Most notably, his service during the Turley case will stand out as a lasting memory. In recent years he also undertook the austerity of travelling regularly to Myanmar, one of the most isolated yatras in ISKCON, to enthuse the devotees there.
From our perspective, Maharaja will be remembered most for his contribution as a GBC member, a service he performed since 1987 with zonal responsibilites in North America. Badrinarayan Swami also served as the chairman of ISKCON’s international GBC, was a member of the GBC Organizational Development Committee, among others, and the North American Regional Governing Body Executive Committee.
Read more: https://iskconnews.org/gbc-executive-committee-shares-statement-on-the-sudden-passing-of-hh-badrinarayan-swami/
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