By Atma Tattva Das,
Since 2016, Jagadananda Das has served at the Durban Festival of Chariots, offering guidance and support in the Bhakti Cloud youth tent.
When Jurgen Wolfenden first walked into a Bhakti Yoga Society (BYS) program as a young university student, he wasn’t looking for a dramatic shift in his life. He simply wanted peace. “I didn’t know much at the time,” he said. “But something about the atmosphere held me. The chanting, the sense of family, the care. It stayed with me.”
Today, known in the devotee community as Jagadananda Das, he traces the beginnings of his academic and devotional journey back to those early gatherings. Raised in Zimbabwe and later studying in Pretoria, he spent his undergraduate years navigating the pressures and uncertainties typical of emerging adulthood. BYS offered grounding and direction. “I met people who lived their philosophy,” he said. “For me, as a student of Western philosophy, that was revolutionary.”
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