Jayadvaita Swami is a Vaishnava swami[1] and a spiritual leader in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is an editor, publisher, teacher and a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON. 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.
Jayadvaita Swami received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1968,[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] In 1987, along with Dhanurdhara Swami[5] and Bhurijana Dasa[6], he co-founded the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education. He now serves part-time as a facilitator for the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training.[7][8] From 1991 through most of 1998 he served as editor in chief of Back to Godhead magazine,[9] 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.[10] Apart from his services in publishing, he travels widely,[11] teaching about the philosophy and culture of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
References
- ^ List of Sannyasis in ISKCON April 2008 ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry, Retrieved on 2008-05-05
- ^ "Profile on Jayadvaita Swami by Friends of the BBT". www.friendsofthebbt.org. http://friendsofthebbt.org/jayadvaita-swami. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Profile on Jayadvaita Swami by Friends of the BBT". www.friendsofthebbt.org. http://friendsofthebbt.org/jayadvaita-swami. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "The History of Padayatra - India". www.padayatra.com. http://www.padayatra.com/history.php. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ Dhanurdhara Swami
- ^ Bhurijana Dasa
- ^ Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training
- ^ "Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training - Facilitators". www.mihet.org. http://mihet.org/facilitators. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "A Word of Thanks", Back to Godhead (Alachua, FL) 33 (3): 4, May-June 1999, ISSN 0005-3643
- ^ Dasa, Gopiparanadhana (2002). Śrī Bṛhad-bhagavatāmrta of Śrīla Sanātana Goswāmī. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. ISBN 0-89213-348-1., preface
- ^ Jayadvaita Swami's itinerary
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