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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada(Srila Prabhupada)
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Srila Prabhupada) was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India.
He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent
devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya
Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced
him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western
world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later
(1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.
Attheir first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the
English language. In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a
commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started
an English fortnightly magazine.
Recognizing Srila Prabhupada'sphilosophical learning and devotion, the Gaudiya Vaisnava Society
honored him in 1947 with the title "Bhaktivedanta." In 1950, at the age
of fifty-four, Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, and four
years later he adopted the vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more
time to his studies and writing. Srila Prabhupada traveled to the holy
city of Vrndavana, where he lived in very humble circumstances in the
historic medieval temple of Radha-Damodara. There he engaged for several
years in deep study and writing. He accepted the renounced order of
life (sannyasa) in 1959. At Radha-Damodara, Srila Prabhupada began work
on his life's masterpiece: a multivolume translation and commentary on
the 18,000-verse Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). He also wrote
Easy Journey to Other Planets.
After publishing three volumes ofBhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada came to the United States, in 1965, to
fulfill the mission of his spiritual master. Since that time, His Divine
Grace has written over sixty volumes of authoritative translations,
commentaries and summary studies of the philosophical and religious
classics of India.
In 1965, when he first arrived by freighter in NewYork City, Srila Prabhupada was practically penniless. It was after
almost a year of great difficulty that he established the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness in July of 1966. Under his careful
guidance, the Society has grew within a decade to a worldwide
confederation of almost one hundred asramas, schools, temples,
institutes and farm communities.
In 1968, Srila Prabhupada createdNew Vrndavana, an experimental Vedic community in the hills of West
Virginia. Inspired by the success of New Vrndavana, then a thriving farm
community of more than one thousand acres, his students founded several
similar communities in the United States and abroad.
In 1972, HisDivine Grace introduced the Vedic system of primary and secondary
education in the West by founding the Gurukula school in Dallas, Texas.
The school began with three children in 1972, and by the beginning of
1975 the enrollment had grown to one hundred fifty.
Srila Prabhupadaalso inspired the construction of a large international center at
Sridhama Mayapur in West Bengal, India, which is also the site for a
planned Institute of Vedic Studies. A similar project is the magnificent
Krsna-Balarama Temple and International Guest House in Vrndavana,
India. These are centers where Westerners can live to gain firsthand
experience of Vedic culture.
Srila Prabhupada's most significantcontribution, however, is his books. Highly respected by the academic
community for their authoritativeness, depth and clarity, they are used
as standard textbooks in numerous college courses. His writings have
been translated into eleven languages. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust,
established in 1972 exclusively to publish the works of His Divine
Grace, has thus become the world's largest publisher of books in the
field of Indian religion and philosophy.
In the last ten years of hislife, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe
twelve times on lecture tours that have took him to six continents. In
spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write
prolifically. His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic
philosophy, religion, literature and culture.
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