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    Srila Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was born in India in 1896 and first met his guru in 1922, who encouraged him to teach Vedic philosophy in English. In the following decades, Srila Prabhupada wrote commentaries, started an English magazine, and translated Hindu scriptures. In 1965, he traveled to America to share Vedic teachings and founded the Hare Krishna movement, establishing over 100 centers worldwide before his death in 1977. Srila Prabhupada authored over 50 volumes of translated scriptures that are highly respected scholarly works.

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    Srila Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was born in India in 1896 and first met his guru in 1922, who encouraged him to teach Vedic philosophy in English. In the following decades, Srila Prabhupada wrote commentaries, started an English magazine, and translated Hindu scriptures. In 1965, he traveled to America to share Vedic teachings and founded the Hare Krishna movement, establishing over 100 centers worldwide before his death in 1977. Srila Prabhupada authored over 50 volumes of translated scriptures that are highly respected scholarly works.

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    Srila Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was born in India in 1896 and first met his guru in 1922, who encouraged him to teach Vedic philosophy in English. In the following decades, Srila Prabhupada wrote commentaries, started an English magazine, and translated Hindu scriptures. In 1965, he traveled to America to share Vedic teachings and founded the Hare Krishna movement, establishing over 100 centers worldwide before his death in 1977. Srila Prabhupada authored over 50 volumes of translated scriptures that are highly respected scholarly works.

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    A brief biography of His Divine Grace

    A.C. Bhaktivedanta Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,


    Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
    and The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

    His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appeared in


    this world in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual
    master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja, in Calcutta
    in 1922. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent religious
    scholar and the founder of sixty-four Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic
    institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to
    dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge. Srila Prabhupada
    became his student and, in 1933, his formally initiated disciple.

    At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati


    requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge in English.
    In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on
    the Bhagavad-gita, assisted the Gaudiya Matha in its work and, in
    1944, started "Back to Godhead," an English fortnightly magazine. The
    magazine is now being continued by his followers.

    In 1950 Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, adopting the


    vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more time to his studies and
    writing. He traveled to the holy city of Vrndavana, where he lived in
    humble circumstances in the historic temple of Radha-Damodara. He
    accepted the renounced order of life (sannyasa) in 1959. At Radha-
    Damodara, Srila Prabhupada began work on his life's masterpiece: a
    multivolume commented translation of Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata
    Purana).

    After publishing three volumes of the Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada


    came to the United States, in September of 1965, to fulfill the
    mission of his spiritual master. Subsequently, he wrote more than
    fifty volumes of summary studies and commented translations of the
    philosophical and religious classics of India.

    When Srila Prabhupada first arrived by freighter in New York City,


    he was practically penniless. Only after almost a year of great
    difficulty did he establish the International Society for Krishna
    Consciousness, in July of 1966. Before he passed away, on November
    14, 1977, he had guided the Society and seen it grow to a worldwide
    confederation of more than one hundred centers, schools, temples,
    institutes and farm communities.

    Among the farm communities Srila Prabhupada established is New


    Vrindaban, in West Virginia, USA. New Vrindaban is now the site,
    also, of a memorial built in Srila Prabhupada's honor, "Srila
    Prabhupada's Palace of Gold."

    Srila Prabhupada inspired the construction of several large


    international centers in India. The center at Sridhama Mayapur is the
    site for a planned spiritual city. In Vrindavan are the Krishna-
    Balarama Temple and International Guesthouse, gurukula school, and
    Srila Prabhupada Memorial and Museum. There are major cultural
    centers and temples in Bombay, Ahmedhabad, Bangalore and New Delhi.
    Other centers are planned in several important locations on the
    Indian subcontinent.
    Srila Prabhupada's most significant contribution, however, is his
    books, which are highly respected by scholars for their authority,
    depth and clarity.

    In just twelve years, from his arrival in America in 1965 till his
    passing on in Vrindavana in 1977, despite his advanced age Srila
    Prabhupada circled the globe fourteen times on lecture tours that
    took him to six continents. Notwithstanding such a vigorous schedule,
    Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. His writings
    constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion,
    literature and culture.

    [end]

    (c) 1977-1999 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.


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