Jayadvaita Swami
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Jayadvaita Swami —editor, publisher, and teacher— is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), of which Jayadvaita Swami is currently one of the leading members.[1]
Since the early 1970s, Jayadvaita Swami has served as an editor or assistant editor with the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, working on nearly all the books which his guru, Srila Prabhupada, published throughout his lifetime[2].
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Jayadvaita Swami received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1968, at the age of nineteen. Practically the first task assigned to him was to staple booklets. He later went on to typing manuscripts, transcribing Srila Prabhupada's dictation for books, and then typesetting, proofreading, managing book production, and editing.
He has lectured extensively at colleges and universities, especially in the United States.
- In 1978 he accepted the order of renounced life, sannyasa from Satsvarupa dasa Goswami.
- In 1985 and 1986, he spent a year and a half traveling with a party of pilgrims on pada-yatra, a journey on foot, through various states of India, stopping in a different town or village every night.
- Since 1988 he has served as a director of Srila Prabhupada's publishing house, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
- In 1987, along with Dhanurdhara Swami and Bhurijana Dasa, he co-founded the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education.
- From 1991 through most of 1998 he served as editor in chief of Back to Godhead magazine, for which he had been an assistant editor for several years. Recently he served as editor for a three-volume translation and commentary for Sri Brihad-Bhagavatamrita, a sixteenth-century Sanskrit philosophical and devotional work.
Apart from his services in publishing, he travels widely[3], teaching about the philosophy and culture of Krishna consciousness.
[edit] References
- ^ List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 2008-05-05
- ^ Biography on Krishna.com
- ^ Jayadvaita Swami's itinerary
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