Tripurari Swami

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Swami Bhaktivedanta Tripurari
Religion	Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Hinduism
Other name(s)	Swami Tripurari
Personal
Born	March 12, 1949 Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Senior posting
Based in	California
Predecessor	A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, B. R. Sridhara Dev-Goswami
Religious career
Initiation	Diksa–1972, Sannyasa–1975
Post	Guru, Sannyasi
Website	Sri Caitanya Sanga

Tripurari Swami, also known as Swami B.V. Tripurari and Swami Tripurari, is "an author, poet and guru. As a prominent master in the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, he is one of the leading practitioners of Bhakti-yoga in the West."^[1]

Biography

Tripurari was born in 1949 at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey. He devoted his youth to the pursuit of transcendental knowledge and mystic experience. His lifetime of spiritual practice and teaching has brought him notice in spiritual circles around the world and earned the appreciation of scholars and practitioners alike. He has been described as helping "scholars... apprehend more clearly the dynamic nature of the Krsna consciousness movement."^[2]

Tripurari met his initiating guru, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in the spring of 1972.^[3] Tripurari relates that he felt as though he had met a long-lost friend, as Prabhupada blessed him with his all-knowing glance. Over the years of service that followed, Prabhupada showered Tripurari with affection and repeatedly expressed his appreciation for Tripurari's selfless service and ability to inspire others. In 1974 Prabhupada instructed Tripurari in a widely circulated letter,^[4] "So you organize freely. You are the incarnation of book distribution. Take the leadership and do the needful." Accordingly, Swami Tripurari has set an example of one who is independently thoughtful and capable of making an insightful literary contribution to the world.

Before accepting sannyasa in 1975, Tripurari Swami was known as Tripurari dasa.^[5]

Shortly before Prabhupada's death, he suggested that, should the need arise, his students could receive further instruction from his Godbrother B. R. Sridhara. Tripurari was present when Prabhupada gave this instruction,^[6] however, it was not until several years later, in the midst of the confusion that followed Prabhupada's death,^[7] that they would affect the course of Tripurari's spiritual pursuit.

Tripurari expresses his experience of hearing from and serving Sridhara thus: "With the setting of the sun of the manifest pastimes of our beloved preceptor, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the world became dark. Then suddenly in the shadows of the night the reflected light of the moonlike discourse of Srila B. R. Sridhara Deva Goswami flooded the path with new light and dynamic insight that illumined the inner landscape, leading me to the soul of Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Vaisnavism." The association and instructions of B. R. Sridhara profoundly affected Tripurari, and under his guidance, Tripurari began initiating his own students in 1985.

Reviews

In 1998, Yoga Journal gave Tripurari's Aesthetic Vedanta a one-paragraph review. In 2002, Bhagavad Gita: Its Feeling and Philosophy, was reviewed by Yoga Journal, and then by Arvind Sharma in 2005 for the Journal of Vaishnava Studies.

Bibliography

Rasa - Love Relationships in Transcendence, (ISBN 1-886069-10-7). Mandala, 1995.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Ignorance, (ISBN 1-886069-11-5). Mandala, 1995.
Jiva Goswami's Tattva-Sandarbha: Sacred India's Philosophy of Ecstasy, (ISBN 1-886069-12-3). Mandala, 1996.
Aesthetic Vedanta: The Sacred Path of Passionate Love, (ISBN 1-886069-14-X). Mandala, 1998.
Bhagavad-gita: Its Feeling and Philosophy, (ISBN 1-886069-53-0). Mandala, 2001.
"Bhagavad-gita: Seeing Nonviolence in the Violent Play of God." In Steven J. Rosen, ed., Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad-gita, (ISBN 0-937194-44-1). Deepak Heritage Books, 2002.
Form of Beauty, with B. G. Sharma, (ISBN 1-932771-36-0). Mandala, 2005 (2nd edition).
Gopala-tapani Upanisad, (ISBN 1-932771-12-3). Audarya, 2004.
Siksastakam of Sri Caitanya, (ISBN 1-932771-84-0). Mandala, 2006.

References

↑ Rosen, Steven: Holy war: violence and the Bhagavad Gita, Deepak Heritage Books, 2002.
↑ Babhru Dasa 1999
↑ "Prabhupada Disciple database". Prabhupada.com. Retrieved 2010-01-20. (primary source)
↑ Prabhupada (12 November 1974), Letter to Tripurari - Bombay
↑ Dasa, Riddha (2002). Mission in Service of His Divine Grace. Visnu Garuda Books. ISBN 1-901593-01-0. Accessed from the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase, published by the Bhaktivedanta Archives. "In March 1975, Pusta Krsna Swami traveled to India for the Mayapura festival. (...) Before I could go I had to gain the approval of my authority, Tripurari dasa, the leader of our BBT travelling party. (...) One week later, however, while in Vrndavana, after having received sannyasa initiation from Srila Prabhupada, the now Swami Tripurari finally conceded that it would be a great service opportunity for me to travel to South Africa as a BBT sankirtana representative..."
↑ Ekstrand & Bryant 2004, pp. 187
↑ Visnu, Swami. "The Guardian of Devotion: Disappearance and Rejection of the Spiritual Master in ISKCON after 1977".

External links

Sri Caitanya Sanga, also known as Audarya, is a monastery established by Tripurari Swami.
The Harmonist publishes articles relevant to Gaudiya Vaishnavism under the editorial supervision of Tripurari Swami.
Yoga Journal: Review Of Swami Tripurari's Bhagavad-Gita
Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj - a biographical account of B.R. Sridhar-Dev Goswami from the organization he founded, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

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Pre-ISKCON	Bhakti Hridaya Bon Swami Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Bhaktivinoda Thakur Gaurakishora Dasa Babaji Jagannatha Dasa Babaji Sadananda Vamana Dasa

*ISKCON guru

Persondata
Name	Swami, Tripurari
Alternative names
Short description	American Hare Krishna
Date of birth	March 12, 1949
Place of birth	Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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